We performed a comparison between IBM Rational Performance Tester and OpenText LoadRunner Professional based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about OpenText, IDERA, Microsoft and others in Test Management Tools."It can support both web applications and mobile applications, and in certain cases, it can also support testing of desktop applications or software-based applications. You can write web applications, mobile applications, and software-based applications."
"Technical support is very good. I'm very satisfied with the assistance we've received so far."
"The reporting mechanism is a valuable feature that generates good reports."
"It is a good and stable tool."
"The solution can handle a huge amount of workloads, it's quite scalable."
"Enables us to test most of the products and projects that we have across all the different technologies, without having to look at other tools."
"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."
"The solution supports a lot of protocols."
"It has good protocol coverage."
"I would rate Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional's stability at eight out of ten."
"There are some features that Micro Focus LoadRunner provides, but they are not available in IBM Rational Performance Tester. They should include such features. It can also have more reports similar to what HP provides. It might also need some improvement in terms of the tools and support for other technology areas. Certain technologies are not supported by every tool. They need to support all sorts of technologies and platforms on which web applications and mobile applications are built. They need complete support for all sorts of technologies."
"The solution is not easily scalable. If you want to extend the solution, you need to purchase a different kind of license. You also have to work with the IBM team to assist in scaling."
"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."
"There should be more integration with more open-source platforms."
"The debugging capability should be improved."
"Instead of having too many graphs and tabs, use the analysis section to get a more simplified defect analysis."
"Lacks specific level monitoring."
"The tool should consider releasing a SaaS version since it makes more sense nowadays."
"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."
"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."
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IBM Rational Performance Tester is ranked 25th in Test Management Tools while OpenText LoadRunner Professional is ranked 2nd in Performance Testing Tools with 77 reviews. IBM Rational Performance Tester is rated 7.6, while OpenText LoadRunner Professional is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Rational Performance Tester writes "We can edit captured transactions and organize them by those for which we require performance metrics, but it lacks a set of manuals or guides that would take out some guess work". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText LoadRunner Professional writes "A sophisticated tool that supports many languages and works with all kinds of applications". IBM Rational Performance Tester is most compared with Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad and OpenText LoadRunner Cloud, whereas OpenText LoadRunner Professional is most compared with Tricentis NeoLoad, OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise, OpenText LoadRunner Cloud, Apache JMeter and Tricentis Tosca.
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