We performed a comparison between OpenText LoadRunner Professional and Spirent Avalanche based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, OpenText, Tricentis and others in Performance Testing Tools."My favorite feature in LoadRunner Professional is its ability to group scripts under separate IDs."
"It has good protocol coverage."
"It has features for recording. The best feature with Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is that there is very little bottleneck or overhead issues. With LoadRunner, you can spawn 2000 contributions for one machine."
"The number of protocols that it supports, and especially, for example, when it talks about SAP GUI-based performance testing."
"When designing a workload model offers a good range of possibilities for creating goal-oriented scenarios, which helps us understand and meet SLAs."
"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."
"It is an advanced tool with multiple options available for the performance system."
"The most valuable features of Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional are scripting and executing the tests."
"I find network traffic testing the most valuable feature."
"In terms of improvement, it lacks mobile testing features present in some competitors, like GitMatters, which I find valuable."
"The pricing model, selling model, and business model need to be adjusted. For non-enterprise organizations, Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is too expensive and not worth the cost."
"Sometimes, we aren't able to see an accurate page view while replying and executing the script. When you are navigating the application side by side, it needs to be displayed on a random viewer. Sometimes we will get a few applications, and we won't get others."
"I guess scalability becomes a problem when you use things like TruClients."
"The solution lacks some form of integration."
"The tool should consider releasing a SaaS version since it makes more sense nowadays."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is low, and ten is high-quality technical support, I rate the support a one."
"I would like the solution to include monitoring capacity."
"The solution could improve by increasing the Gbps speeds and by having better support for storage."
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OpenText LoadRunner Professional is ranked 2nd in Performance Testing Tools with 77 reviews while Spirent Avalanche is ranked 17th in Performance Testing Tools. OpenText LoadRunner Professional is rated 8.4, while Spirent Avalanche is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of OpenText LoadRunner Professional writes "A sophisticated tool that supports many languages and works with all kinds of applications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Spirent Avalanche writes "Quality traffic testing and is reasonably priced". OpenText LoadRunner Professional is most compared with Tricentis NeoLoad, OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise, OpenText LoadRunner Cloud, Apache JMeter and IBM Rational Performance Tester, whereas Spirent Avalanche is most compared with Ixia IxLoad and Apache JMeter.
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