We performed a comparison between OpenText LoadRunner Professional and Visual Studio Test Professional based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, OpenText, Tricentis and others in Performance Testing Tools."I am impressed with the tool's correlation function."
"The initial setup and installation of the software were very easy and straightforward."
"The most important feature for us is that it supports a lot of protocols because we support all of them, including HTTP, FTP, mainframe, and others."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create performance test cases quickly and then execute them. It provides a lot of powerful features to do that very efficiently and effectively."
"When designing a workload model offers a good range of possibilities for creating goal-oriented scenarios, which helps us understand and meet SLAs."
"The most useful aspect of the solution is that it provides agents in different geographic locations."
"The reporting is very good in regard to scripting and debugging."
"There are various languages that they allow those programs to be written in, whether you want to use Java or something else."
"It is a very common and strong product. A lot of support is available for this product."
"The user interface is very friendly."
"The whole suite is made for .NET development."
"The stability has always been very good."
"The solution is very stable."
"The tool is flexible and easy to manage. We use it since it is scalable and easy to use. It integrates with solutions."
"The product is good to create big or small projects fastly. It is one of the leaders in the area."
"Visual Studio is highly powerful. It's probably the best software development tool on the market."
"The reporting and GUI have room for improvement."
"If they can make LoadRunner more comprehensive, it would really help."
"The solution is very costly. The cost is very high, especially considering a lot of other resources are available now and they are less expensive. For a small organization, it is very difficult to sustain the costs involved in having the solution or the related fees"
"I would like them to lower the licensing cost and provide better support."
"Sometimes we are not be able to click on some of the buttons due to the screen mismatching and compatibility issues."
"LoadRunner Professional's parameter data could be improved."
"The only scenario we see a complexity is when we have single-page applications where JavaScript is talking to the server and coming back. That's the only scenario where we find some difficulties."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is low, and ten is high-quality technical support, I rate the support a one."
"The database administration could be better; you should be able to choose new tools with the development environment in Visual Studio. It could be easier to use."
"We would like to be able to easily integrate this solution with our continuous integration tools, such as Jenkins."
"Visual Studio Test Professional needs to improve its scalability."
"Visual Studio Test Professional needs to improve its stability."
"The performance could be faster."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"I would appreciate some enhancements in the interface, maybe adding more color options."
"The price is reasonable, but it's not the best."
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OpenText LoadRunner Professional is ranked 2nd in Performance Testing Tools with 77 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 6th in Functional Testing Tools with 48 reviews. OpenText LoadRunner Professional is rated 8.4, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6. 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 Visual Studio Test Professional writes "Customization is a key feature as is the ability to integrate with third-party services ". OpenText LoadRunner Professional is most compared with Tricentis NeoLoad, OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise, OpenText LoadRunner Cloud, Apache JMeter and IBM Rational Performance Tester, whereas Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with TFS, Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, SmartBear TestComplete and OpenText UFT Developer.
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