We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and OpenText LoadRunner Professional based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Tools."It identifies all the URLs and domains on its own and then performs tests and provides the results."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution...The initial setup or installation of HCL AppScan is easy."
"For me, as a manager, it was the ease of use. Inserting security into the development process is not normally an easy project to do. The ability for the developer to actually use it and get results and focuses, that's what counted."
"This is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of HCL AppScan is scanning QR codes."
"The product is useful, particularly in its sensitivity and scanning capabilities."
"We use it as a security testing application."
"Technical support is helpful."
"It has features for recording. The best feature with Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is that there is very little bottleneck or overhead issues. With LoadRunner, you can spawn 2000 contributions for one machine."
"It provides clients with an understanding of application and system performance."
"The load testing, reporting, and scripting features are all valuable features."
"What we like the most is that it integrates with UC."
"The solution is quite stable."
"I like the user interface. I like the way we can divide our scenarios and can tune them. The integration with the quality center is great. These features are really good."
"It is an advanced tool with multiple options available for the performance system."
"The number of protocols that it supports, and especially, for example, when it talks about SAP GUI-based performance testing."
"The tool should improve its output. Scanning is not a challenge anymore since there are many such tools available in the market. The product needs to focus on how its output is being used by end users. It should be also more user-friendly. One of the major challenges is in the tool's integration with applications that need to be scanned. Sometimes, the scanning is not proper."
"IBM Security AppScan Source is rather hard to use."
"In future releases, I would like to see more aggressive reports. I would also like to see less false positives."
"It's a little bit basic when you talk about the Web Services. If AppScan improved its maturity on Web Services testing, that would be good."
"They could add a software component analysis tool."
"If HCL AppScan is able to alert the clients over email once the scan is complete, it would be great. Right now, HCL AppScan doesn't let me know if the scanning part is finished or not, because of which I have to come back and check mostly."
"The product has some technical limitations."
"Many silly false positives are produced."
"The solution lacks some form of integration."
"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."
"We are going to continue to use the product in the future, I recommend this product. However, those who are looking for only REST-based on the API, I would recommend some other tool because of the cost. There are others available on the market."
"The price of this solution should be cheaper."
"We'd like the solution to be a bit more user-friendly."
"The product is pretty heavy and should be more lightweight."
"IBM WebSphere MQ testing can be a bit challenging. It can handle that, but I hope that they will build more and more capabilities. We do a huge amount of testing for messaging. Just like aviation, the railway industry is based on messaging. There is messaging to build trains and messaging to create some bills. There are many train movements. Everything involves messaging. I wish that it will be developed more for IBM WebSphere testing. Monitoring is okay, but for testing, I currently have to create Java users. I have to load a lot of libraries from IBM WebSphere and so on."
"If they can make LoadRunner more comprehensive, it would really help."
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HCL AppScan is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 39 reviews while OpenText LoadRunner Professional is ranked 2nd in Performance Testing Tools with 76 reviews. HCL AppScan is rated 7.6, while OpenText LoadRunner Professional is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HCL AppScan writes " A stable and scalable product useful for application security scanning". 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". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, OWASP Zap and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, whereas OpenText LoadRunner Professional is most compared with Tricentis NeoLoad, OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise, OpenText LoadRunner Cloud, Apache JMeter and IBM Rational Performance Tester.
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