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."The initial setup and installation of the software were very easy and straightforward."
"It is actually a very good tool because it will support almost all, if not all, industry-standard protocols, and it is also equipped with very nice reporting capabilities, which is why I like it."
"The solution helps my clients save time. It is easier to capture reports and improves product quality. The product helps to identify customer defects during performance tests and reduces workloads. The product has improved my client's user interaction. It has reduced peak load times."
"My favorite feature in LoadRunner Professional is its ability to group scripts under separate IDs."
"Graph monitoring is a valuable feature."
"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."
"Paramterization and correlation are important features."
"The most useful aspect of the solution is that it provides agents in different geographic locations."
"I find network traffic testing the most valuable feature."
"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."
"I guess scalability becomes a problem when you use things like TruClients."
"The solution uses a lot of memory and then it dies. It's difficult to work with the solution sometimes when you run a scenario it dies. They need to make the solution lighter somehow."
"The reporting and GUI have room for improvement."
"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 debugging capability should be improved."
"I would like to have better support for adding more users per load generator."
"If the support of the protocols was the same throughout the other protocols and it was there evenly, then I would rate the product higher."
"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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