We performed a comparison between Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise and Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional comes out on top in this comparison. Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is a mature and feature-rich solution with a proven ROI, whereas Enterprise users report being dissatisfied with the product’s ROI.
"It is mostly user-friendly and usable."
"The user interface is fine."
"IP Spoofing can be done using Performance Center."
"The tool's most valuable features are scripting, correlations, and parameterization. Debugging is also easy."
"We can book load generators."
"The most beneficial features of the solution are flexibility and versatility in their performance."
"You can test a huge variety of applications, not just web-based systems, but SAP, Oracle, web services, pretty much anything out in the market place, but it's mobile-based testing."
"Support is nice, quick, and responsive."
"Graph monitoring is a valuable feature."
"My favorite feature in LoadRunner Professional is its ability to group scripts under separate IDs."
"I recommend LoadRunner Professional as it supports many protocols and applications and is very easy to set up and use."
"A very comprehensive tool that is good for performance testing."
"The capabilities and flexibility of the Controller, the ability to monitor the systems under test, and the comprehensive results Analysis which saves a great deal of time."
"The most valuable features of Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional are the separate module for scripting, execution analysis, and integration with a lot of new things pipeline areas. They keep updating their releases. Recently, they have released different versions, such as the professional and enterprise. They're coming up with new features which are good."
"It provides clients with an understanding of application and system performance."
"I appreciate its ability to handle various internal calls and its user-friendly interface."
"The TruClient protocol works well but it takes a lot of memory to run those tests, which is something that can be improved."
"New features have been added in latest version and need to be improved with the DevOps integration."
"The process of upgrading LoadRunner can be difficult and time-consuming."
"We are expecting more flexible to use Jenkins in continuous integration going forward."
"Third-party product integrations could be a little more slickly handled."
"While the stability is generally good, there are a few strange issues that crop up unexpectedly which affect consistent use of the product."
"OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise needs to improve reporting."
"I think better or more integration with some of the monitoring tools that we're considering."
"The tool needs to work on capture script feature."
"The product is pretty heavy and should be more lightweight."
"We are going to continue to use the product in the future, I recommend this product. However, those who are looking for only REST-based on the API, I would recommend some other tool because of the cost. There are others available on the market."
"We still have some issues with integration with things like SiteScope which, obviously, being another HPE product should be very straightforward, but there are always issues around that."
"The tool should consider releasing a SaaS version since it makes more sense nowadays."
"There's a reporting part of the cloud that could be improved a little bit."
"I recently just got to see LoadRunner Developer, but it is still not fully developed to use."
"I guess scalability becomes a problem when you use things like TruClients."
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OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise is ranked 5th in Performance Testing Tools with 81 reviews while OpenText LoadRunner Professional is ranked 2nd in Performance Testing Tools with 77 reviews. OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise is rated 8.4, while OpenText LoadRunner Professional is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise writes "Saves time and effort, and makes it easy to set up scenarios and execute tests". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText LoadRunner Professional writes "A sophisticated tool that supports many languages and works with all kinds of applications". OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise is most compared with OpenText LoadRunner Cloud, OpenText Silk Performer, Tricentis NeoLoad, Apache JMeter and OpenText ALM / Quality Center, whereas OpenText LoadRunner Professional is most compared with Tricentis NeoLoad, OpenText LoadRunner Cloud, Apache JMeter, IBM Rational Performance Tester and Tricentis Tosca. See our OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise vs. OpenText LoadRunner Professional report.
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