We performed a comparison between IBM Rational Test Workbench, OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise, and Selenium HQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, OpenText, Tricentis and others in Performance Testing Tools."This solution provides for API testing, functional UI testing, performance testing, and service virtualization."
"Reporting is pretty good. Its interface is also good. I'm overall pretty happy with the functionality and use of IBM Rational Test Workbench."
"Creating the script is very easy and user friendly."
"IP Spoofing can be done using Performance Center."
"What we call the LoadRunner analysis is the most useful aspect of the solution."
"With LoadRunner Enterprise, doing various types of performance testing, load testing, and automation testing has been very helpful for some of the teams."
"It's a very powerful tool."
"The most valuable aspect of Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise is the overall support it has for a lot of different applications and defined domains."
"The most valuable feature is the Vuser protocols."
"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 allows for quick comparison of monitoring and performance results, a feature I highly appreciate."
"I like its simplicity."
"Due to its popularity, you can find pretty much any answer in open discussions from the community."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its flexibility, being open source, and it has close to no limits when it comes to integrating with any language, or browser you are using."
"The stability of the solution has been good, it is reliable we have not had any bugs."
"I like the record and playback features. We also appreciate that it's not just writing on a script that we create. While we were browsing our web application, it automatically records all the clicks and movements of points. We also appreciate the fact that it provides screenshots of everything in the output."
"Language support - since it supports Java and other programming languages it is easy to integrate with other systems."
"The most valuable features of Selenium HQ are it is open source and has multiple languages and browser support. It's very useful."
"There are many useful features in Selenium that I like, and of the new features I particularly enjoy the Selenium Grid. With this, we can run many test cases in one go, and in one suite we can extract multiple results."
"It should have more interfaces. In terms of interfaces or protocols, what you can do with Rational is far limited as compared to other products out there. What it does, it does great, but it only gives you limited types of protocols. It supports between 8 to 15 types of protocols, whereas other test tools give you 20 to 30 types of protocols with which you can do testing and convert to script. It records Javascript-based scripts, and you got to know a little bit of Java to basically be able to edit them, but the level of editing you got to do is very low. I like that, but the ability to edit the script is not as good as Parasoft or LoadRunner, which have C-Script."
"There are a number of things that they can do to simplify the tools, but the most important thing that they need to do is simplify the installation."
"The solution is expensive."
"We'd like the product to include protocol identifiers whenever a tester wants to test a new application."
"Micro Focus's technical support could be more responsive."
"After they get over the acquisition, the first improvement is going to be tailoring it for their existing stack of other products. How would LoadRunner work for Documentum? How would it work for Business Network? How would it work for other apps? They can have a pre-package or a guide because they are all in the same family as opposed to being outside."
"I have seen some users report some issues, but I have personally not had any issues."
"The support team needs to be more coordinated."
"More real-time monitoring should be available for the system under test."
"The solution can be improved by making it more user-friendly, and by including autocorrelation capability."
"Selenium HQ could have better interaction with SAP products."
"We do not have enough resources or enough people to employ and hire. So, I'm hiring whoever I find, and they don't always have enough technical knowledge to operate Selenium."
"An improvement to Selenium HQ would be the inclusion of a facility to work on Shadow DOM."
"There are some tiny issues with SeleniumHQ. For example, with respect to the scraping tests. Sometimes, a website will have some hidden items or blockages that inhibit us from extracting data directly. It would be beneficial if Selenium could extract that information."
"You need to have experience in order to do the initial setup."
"One limitation of Selenium is that it is purely focused on web application testing."
"It takes such a long time to use this solution that it may be worth looking into other free solutions such as TestProject or Katalon Studio, or paid solutions to replace it."
"The installation could be simplified, it is a bit difficult to install."
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