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, Microsoft, IDERA and others in Test Management Tools."Technical support is very good. I'm very satisfied with the assistance we've received so far."
"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."
"It provides clients with an understanding of application and system performance."
"Graph monitoring is a valuable feature."
"I think that analytics is very good and that the analytics features are very powerful."
"The solution is quite stable."
"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 most important feature for us is that it supports a lot of protocols because we support all of them, including HTTP, FTP, mainframe, and others."
"Scaling is definitely one of the best features of this solution. There are no issues scaling to 10,000 or 20,000 concurrent users."
"LoadRunner is a very systematic tool for anyone to use. Even someone who is actually a first time user of LoadRunner can actually get a lot of benefit out of the tool."
"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."
"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."
"I would like the solution to include monitoring capacity."
"The reporting and GUI have room for improvement."
"I would like to see better-licensing costs."
"I would like to have better support for adding more users per load generator."
"The technical support of Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional could improve. I had an issue with the licensing and their response time is slow. They can improve on this in the future."
"The tool should consider releasing a SaaS version since it makes more sense nowadays."
"The price of this solution should be cheaper."
"I recently just got to see LoadRunner Developer, but it is still not fully developed to use."
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IBM Rational Performance Tester is ranked 24th in Test Management Tools while OpenText LoadRunner Professional is ranked 2nd in Performance Testing Tools with 76 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 BlazeMeter.
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