We performed a comparison between Apache JMeter and OpenText Silk Performer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, OpenText, Tricentis and others in Load Testing Tools."It is cost-effective and simple to use."
"I like the fact that JMeter integrates well with other tools."
"The scripting ability is most valuable. It is easy to use. There is a UI, and you can go in there and figure those things out. After you've got a good set of tests, you basically have a scripted document that you can grab and execute in a pipeline. It is pretty quick to set up, and you can scale it and version control it."
"We find the ease of use and the reports and graphs available valuable."
"We find the load testing feature valuable."
"The thread groups, samplers, and listeners, which are all determined by the script's requirements, are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The solution offers a lot of plug-ins and a huge continuously developing community that is regularly offering new features and plug-ins."
"We use Apache JMeter for load testing, where we provide the throughput time."
"A good monitoring tool, simple to script and easy to configure."
"Until now, JMeter is not supporting most of the protocols."
"It should be easier to combine multiple scripts. If you have multiple scripts, you need to write a new script to combine those scripts. The virtual user generator is slow."
"JMeter output reports can be difficult to understand without training."
"Modeling a test is difficult. If you don't have much knowledge, you won't be able to do it easily. Testing APIs is also difficult."
"We would like more documentation to be provided for the advanced level features that are available in this solution, in order to improve development."
"The reporting is not very good."
"Apache JMeter could be a more user-friendly product from the end user's perspective."
"Self-healing and page rendering for the end-users are not available in Apache JMeter."
"If you have a large amount of data, the solution can struggle."
Apache JMeter is ranked 1st in Load Testing Tools with 82 reviews while OpenText Silk Performer is ranked 10th in Load Testing Tools with 1 review. Apache JMeter is rated 7.8, while OpenText Silk Performer is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Apache JMeter writes "It's a free tool with a vast knowledge base, but the reporting is lackluster, and it has a steep learning curve". 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". Apache JMeter is most compared with BlazeMeter, Postman, Tricentis NeoLoad, OpenText LoadRunner Professional and Akamai CloudTest, whereas OpenText Silk Performer is most compared with OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise.
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