We performed a comparison between OpenText LoadRunner Professional and OpenText Silk Performer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, Tricentis, OpenText and others in Load Testing Tools."The most valuable features of Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional are scripting and executing the tests."
"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."
"It provides clients with an understanding of application and system performance."
"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."
"When designing a workload model offers a good range of possibilities for creating goal-oriented scenarios, which helps us understand and meet SLAs."
"The reporting mechanism is a valuable feature that generates good reports."
"It has good protocol coverage."
"The stability of Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is very high. It is the leading tool for stability."
"A good monitoring tool, simple to script and easy to configure."
"The tool needs to work on capture script feature."
"Compared to some other vendors, there is a lack of community support."
"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."
"Lacks specific level monitoring."
"You should be able to use LoadRunner as a single platform. You should be able to have browser based access. You should be able to run enterprise tests."
"The product is pretty heavy and should be more lightweight."
"The flexibility could be improved."
"I would like them to lower the licensing cost and provide better support."
"If you have a large amount of data, the solution can struggle."
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OpenText LoadRunner Professional is ranked 3rd in Load Testing Tools with 77 reviews while OpenText Silk Performer is ranked 11th in Load Testing Tools with 1 review. OpenText LoadRunner Professional is rated 8.4, while OpenText Silk Performer is rated 8.0. 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 OpenText Silk Performer writes "Scripting and basic test executions are good features; configuring the workload for tests is easy". OpenText LoadRunner Professional is most compared with Tricentis NeoLoad, OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise, OpenText LoadRunner Cloud, Apache JMeter and IBM Rational Performance Tester, whereas OpenText Silk Performer is most compared with Apache JMeter and OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise.
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