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We performed a comparison between OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise and Worksoft Certify based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The initial setup was straightforward. I was able to download everything myself without any IT support.""LoadRunner Enterprise's most valuable features are load simulation and creating correlation for parameters.""It's a very powerful tool.""IP Spoofing can be done using Performance Center.""The solution offers helpful guidelines and has good documentation.""It is also good for reporting purposes, which would be most familiar for QC and UFT users.""Creating the script is very easy and user friendly.""It is pretty easy to do test execution and results analysis. When it comes to scenario settings, LoadRunner Enterprise has an extra edge over other testing tools in the industry. The scenario setup is easy, and in terms of execution, we have a clear idea of what is happening"

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"We are now trying to automate all our applications: SAP, web, third-party, and legacy. Instead of multiple tools, we have been able to have Worksoft handle a lot of our applications. This has saved us a lot of time and effort.""One big advantage of Worksoft Certify is its integration with SAP Solution Manager...""The Capture 2.0 feature is very intuitive, useful, and user-friendly. You can do so much with it now, versus the older version.""The most valuable feature is having a no-code solution for automation, so our QA team and some of our business users can work on automation. Then, they don't have to be developers.""It is a pretty easy tool to use as far as automated testing tools go.""We have been able to save on a lot of manual work for some very high skilled, expensive resources. This has been able to free up a significant amount of their time so they can spend more time on innovation and more creative, value-add activities. That's been one of the more rewarding things that we've done, and the most appreciated.""Automation using Worksoft Certify has saved our testing times by 40% to 50%.""The solution has cut our clients' test maintenance time for changes, like patches or system upgrades. They used to take a lot of time until the production validation completed. Now, it is just seconds until it is ready, so they can do executions within couple of minutes."

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Cons
"Lacks the option of carrying out transaction comparisons.""I think better support for cloud-based load generators would help. For example, integrate with Amazon AWS so you can quickly spin up a load generator in the cloud, use it, spin it down.""New features have been added in latest version and need to be improved with the DevOps integration.""The TruClient protocol works well but it takes a lot of memory to run those tests, which is something that can be improved.""When we have a new application, recording the application is a pretty tough task. We have tried multiple things. We do scripting or try to record with different settings and on different machines. We try to record multiple times, but we do not know why it is recording and why it is not recording. We do the same thing on different machines. It sometimes records, and at other times, it does not. That is one of the major concerns.""They need to focus on minimizing the cost.""The product's scalability must be improved.""The price of this solution could be less expensive. However, this category of solutions is expensive."

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"Performance on the web UI part, especially with some of the more comprehensive Fiori features, like the complex tables that are being used, could be improved. In those cases we have noticed a lot of execution-time increase with regards to the Certify solution.""I would like to see the impact analysis integrated with the performance testing tool. We have multiple tools doing multiple items. I would like to have one common tool.""We have had run ins with some bugs on Business Process Procedure (BPP) and Execution Manager.""The updates for SAP Fiori have been great, where previously we saw a lot of issues. A year ago, it used to fail miserably.""The web application should be more robust.""It would be great if our business testers could develop their own automated test cases. With every release you do, you have to go back and touch your old test cases and bring them up to speed, or develop new test cases. In the beginning, that is a challenge because you have to have someone who is certified in the tool to help you develop these test cases.""As part of our weekly regression, we wanted to use Execution Manager. However, from 2017 until March 2021, Execution Manager was not working as expected in our enrollment. It could have been better. If Execution Manager had worked well, then we could have doubled our productivity. Unfortunately, it had problems.""I would like Worksoft Certify to do automation at any layer (the UI layer, API layer, or database layer) and challenge competitors in the RPA industry, like UiPath and Automation Anywhere."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "For Performance Center, you have to add additional load generators, and then you can do more. I think it is a matter of the price, in terms of how many machines you can buy."
  • "It does everything you could hope for in a performance testing solution. It's not cheap."
  • "It is a bit expensive when compared with other tools."
  • "ROI is 200%."
  • "It is a bit expensive, especially for smaller organizations, but over-all it can save you money."
  • "The price is okay. You're able to buy it, as opposed to paying for a full year."
  • "They have a much more practical pricing model now."
  • "I have not been directly involved in price negotiations but my understanding is that while the cost is a little bit high, it provides good value for the money."
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  • "The tool is not really good at all because you need to purchase some additional tools."
  • "We would purchase more licenses right now if they were cheaper. Pricing is a little bit of a hindrance."
  • "It is expensive compared to some of the other automation tools in the market. However, the benefits and ROI has proved that it has been a good investment."
  • "The initial upfront cost in terms of licenses, plus all the money that we spent developing tests, has proven it's worth. Now, we can do a regression test suite in ten days as opposed to sixteen weeks."
  • "Our ROI is primarily a reduction in testing time. The testing, when we were doing it manually, was 30 to 40 percent of the project's cost."
  • "We ended up buying too many licenses. They were very good at selling it to us, and probably oversold it a little. We bought 45 licenses and have never used more than twenty. However, they gave us a pretty significant discount on the bigger license, so it made sense for us to buy enough that we wouldn't have to go back and ask for more."
  • "We could use Certify to do robotic process automation, which is basically running a process on your correction system instead of your test system. Therefore, we may do that in the future."
  • "By using automation, it reduced about 75 percent of the time when compared to any other tool."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Now that LoadRunner integrates with Dynatrace and other monitoring tools, it simplifies the process of integration into a company, taking merely five minutes to set up This ease of integration… more »
    Top Answer:In South Africa, for a load license with about 5,000 concurrent users, the annual license, not including patches, is around 1.5 million to 2 million, depending on the currency exchange. That's a lot… more »
    Top Answer:It would be beneficial if LoadRunner could optimize resource usage, especially for protocols that require significant resources, like TrueClient, which interacts directly with the UI. If they could… more »
    Top Answer:Tosca fulfills our business needs better because it is an end-to-end solution across technologies. We like that it is scriptless, so even non-experienced staff can use it. To put it simply, with… more »
    Top Answer:A specific feature that I found to be the most valuable in the solution for our company's work processes stems from the fact that it is useful as a low-code automation tool.
    Top Answer:Worksoft Certify is priced higher than most tools. I rate Worksoft Certify an eight out of ten for pricing.
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    Also Known As
    Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise, Performance Center, Micro Focus Performance Center, HPE Performance Center
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    Overview

    Your globally distributed performance testing teams have the responsibility of driving quality acrossyour enterprise while testing a broad range of application types, managing costs and deploying applications that meet the performance requirements of your business. OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise delivers a collaborative testing platform that reduces complexity, centralizes resources and leverages shared assets and licenses to increase consistency across your enterprise.

    Worksoft Certify is the industry's first codeless automated testing system, created for non-technical people to test end-to-end business processes at an enterprise scale.

    It was designed to test complicated processes spanning numerous apps and integrating into contemporary DevOps tool chains. Worksoft Certify manages dynamic input, process flows, and frequent variances in business processes with ease.

    Worksoft Certify automates the testing of your exact business processes across all of your enterprise applications. This solution makes it simple for customers and suppliers to package a process with all of its related dependencies, sub-processes, record sets, record filters, layouts, and variables.

    Worksoft Certify automates tests as effortlessly and quickly as the underlying applications permit, allowing you to evaluate business processes in record time with flawless dependability and consistency. Worksoft Certify speeds up test automation by utilizing a patented Object Action Framework, which effectively models the application under test as a set of pages containing GUI objects and test steps that perform actions on those objects.

    Worksoft Certify Features

    Worksoft Certify has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • LiveTouch: Without coding, graphically edit and update tests.
    • No "fail" tests: See fail validations flagged when the end-to-end test continues.
    • Process comparison: Visually compare tests side by side and eliminate unnecessary tests to reduce maintenance
    • Magic search: AI-driven process search can find duplicate processes and keep automation libraries clean.
    • Exploratory testing: Real-time automated exploratory tests.
    • API testing: Utilize the virtual services and current SoapUI tests.
    • Test data generator: Obtain data from SAP for testing.
    • Create content: Make use of the more than 300 prebuilt SAP end-to-end testing scenarios.
    • Visual capture: Support agile testing by using automation artifacts from process discovery.
    • Full compatibility: Web, Java, .Net, client/server applications, SAP GUI, FIORI, web portal Workday, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Ariba, SuccessFactors, Hybris, AJAX, and more.

    Worksoft Certify Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing Worksoft Certify. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Speed: Automate at least 80% of testing to accelerate innovation.
    • Savings: Reduce overall testing and maintenance expenditures by 60% to 80%.
    • Confidence: Identify defects faster and reduce production defects by 60%.
    • DevOps-ready: Run tests as part of continuous integration, testing, or delivery cycle.
    • Support for RPA: Convert test scripts into robotic process automation.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Jens N., Enterprise Architect SAP Solutions at a computer software company, writes, “As compared to other tools for test automation, what is very good in this tool is the ability to implement logic into the scripts without coding and learning a complex script language. It is comparable to defining formulas in Excel. It is pretty easy to learn how to make your scripts more intelligent and more flexible as per the situation.”

    Aditya C., Sr Test Automation Architect at a tech services company, notes, “The most valuable features of Worksoft Certify are the way we can maintain the processes and sub-processes inside. We can immediately identify and replicate multiple objects in the application without having a major issue with it.”

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    OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise is ranked 5th in Performance Testing Tools with 81 reviews while Worksoft Certify is ranked 8th in Test Automation Tools with 64 reviews. OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise is rated 8.4, while Worksoft Certify 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 Worksoft Certify writes "Enables us to automate end-to-end testing of our integration between S/4HANA and Salesforce.com". OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise is most compared with OpenText LoadRunner Cloud, OpenText LoadRunner Professional, OpenText Silk Performer, Tricentis NeoLoad and Apache JMeter, whereas Worksoft Certify is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Selenium HQ, OpenText UFT One, Katalon Studio and UiPath Test Suite.

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