We performed a comparison between OpenText LoadRunner Cloud and ReadyAPI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Performance Testing Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."OpenText LoadRunner Cloud eliminates the need for our own testing infrastructure when running tests."
"The record and playback feature is the most valuable feature. It's all driven by the script, so it's a script-based tool where the background tracing starts. Java's background process does a lot of tracing. The process starts in the background. It sees what peaks of volumes that the process can handle. It's easy to use because it's script based, record, and playback. I"
"The most valuable feature is having load generators in countries where we don’t have access to them."
"The most valuable feature is that you can create an infrastructure on-demand and do performance testing with it."
"The beauty of LoadRunner Cloud is that we can use the load generator that is hosted by us on-premises, and we also have the option to use their hosted load generator. If it is a public-hosted application, we can also use their public-hosted load generator, but in our case, all our applications are hosted in our data center, so we are using the on-premise load generator. We have the option to deploy those load generators as we want."
"It's fast, easy to use, has a user-friendly UI, and you can split users."
"The product supports a wide variety of technology compared to any other tool."
"The fact that the solution supports multiple protocols such as open source, VuGen, TruWeb, TruClient, and SAP is very important because these protocols help us to concentrate on what is really needed to produce performance tests. If something is not supported, you have to use other tools or find other ways of assimilating loads."
"The Excel sheet feature is good."
"The most valuable features of ReadyAPI are the drag-and-drop options and the integration with versioning tool solutions, such as Git."
"The initial setup of ReadyAPI is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of ReadyAPI is that it is user-friendly."
"The interface is ok and they have the ability to re-load tests so that you can reuse them."
"The most valuable features of ReadyAPI are the ready-to-use assertions and filters which can perform the validation. If we want to filter out any value, the filters are available. Apart from that database integration, if you want to go ahead and perform validation in the database layer it is possible with the ready-to-use feature available. The execution and reporting are rich features."
"It can create stress tests very fast, and some features help you do it fast."
"It's great for those that don't have as much exposure to programming."
"I don't know of any features that should be added. The solution isn't lacking anything at this point."
"It doesn't provide custom reports. You can only use the default reports which contain irrelevant data or is missing data that we need."
"Scriptless automation is an area that can be improved."
"We did have some challenges with the initial implementation."
"One area of improvement in the software's support is the replaying of captured data within the development environment. It would be beneficial if the replay feature could accurately mimic what the actual application is doing for better analysis and testing."
"Its scripting features need improvement."
"The product must provide agents to monitor servers."
"I'd like to see more ability to dive more deeply into the configuration."
"ReadyAPI could improve by adding a conversion tool from one file type to another. Import support for multiple file types would be beneficial."
"The Property Transfer capability could be more user friendly because it is a bit difficult to understand."
"Sometimes, if I changed something in ReadyAPI, it would not quickly pick up the change. It used to give me the same error repeatedly, and when I closed the application completely and restarted it, it would pick up that change."
"It is challenging doing upgrades and patches because sometimes the environmental variables or suits in the projects get erased."
"Better compatibility or more support for the older versions would be helpful."
"What needs improvement in ReadyAPI is its load testing feature because there was a hiccup when my team performed some load testing on the tool. My team had meetings with the ReadyAPI team and tried to get that issue fixed, but it still hasn't improved. This is a shortcoming of the tool, especially when you compare it with HP LoadRunner."
"The reporting is not very robust and needs to be improved."
"The UI is not user-friendly."
OpenText LoadRunner Cloud is ranked 6th in Performance Testing Tools with 39 reviews while ReadyAPI is ranked 7th in Performance Testing Tools with 33 reviews. OpenText LoadRunner Cloud is rated 8.2, while ReadyAPI is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of OpenText LoadRunner Cloud writes "Enterprise modeling, server maintenance, and competitive pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ReadyAPI writes "Allows you to parameterize in one place for the changes to reflect everywhere and lets you customize the environment, but its load testing feature needs improvement, and costs need to be cheaper". OpenText LoadRunner Cloud is most compared with OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise, Tricentis NeoLoad, OpenText LoadRunner Professional, BlazeMeter and Apache JMeter, whereas ReadyAPI is most compared with Apache JMeter, Katalon Studio, ReadyAPI Test, Tricentis Tosca and SmartBear TestComplete. See our OpenText LoadRunner Cloud vs. ReadyAPI report.
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