We performed a comparison between OpenText LoadRunner Professional and Tricentis Tosca based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tricentis, OpenText, SeleniumHQ and others in Regression Testing Tools."The ability to do multithreading. That's available in any performance testing tool, but the number of protocols that this particular tool supports has been very good."
"The stability of Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is very high. It is the leading tool for stability."
"The reporting is very good in regard to scripting and debugging."
"The front loader and the reporting features are the most valuable aspects of OpenText LoadRunner Professional."
"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."
"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."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"What we like the most is that it integrates with UC."
"We have multiple applications, and it supports parallel execution. It has mobile automation."
"It can provide all levels of testing from design to execution to reporting."
"Compared to other tools we have been looking at, you don't have to be a programmer to operate it, though it helps. It also a product that can be used by business people."
"The scalability is a valuable feature of Tricentis Tosca."
"The use of automation is most valuable."
"Very user-friendly and the low code automation is really helpful."
"The mainframe testing and UI automation are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"With one click, it will scan all the elements on the screen, so that the user can select the required elements for automation tests."
"You should be able to use LoadRunner as a single platform. You should be able to have browser based access. You should be able to run enterprise tests."
"Compared to some other vendors, there is a lack of community support."
"We still have some issues with integration with things like SiteScope which, obviously, being another HPE product should be very straightforward, but there are always issues around that."
"There is room for improvement of the pilot processing, the dump analysis, and forwarding results based on the dump analysis. We have a generator, root controller, different agents, and an analyzer, so all of these are very important when it comes to LoadRunner."
"The solution must be more user-friendly."
"I recently just got to see LoadRunner Developer, but it is still not fully developed to use."
"Micro Focus has two separate products for web and mobile applications, which means you have to invest in both."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is low, and ten is high-quality technical support, I rate the support a one."
"ScratchBook execution needs to be improved as Tosca crashes multiple times."
"Running the regression – if multiple lists are executed at once or if a list contains 200+ tests, it’s a pain to stop the execution."
"Many times when we have raised a ticket, we did not get an urgent response."
"The reporting function was lacking in usability and detail."
"It is quite difficult to integrate the solution with other tools."
"I would like to see more implementation of AI on the self-healing aspect. That would be like the next step."
"I would like to be able to manage different projects in one repository or have better data exchange between repositories."
"Might have a learning curve, as it does not follow the traditional Record-Play functionality, but tests have to be built from requirements or Agile story cards."
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OpenText LoadRunner Professional is ranked 2nd in Performance Testing Tools with 76 reviews while Tricentis Tosca is ranked 1st in Regression Testing Tools with 96 reviews. OpenText LoadRunner Professional is rated 8.4, while Tricentis Tosca is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of OpenText LoadRunner Professional writes "A sophisticated tool that supports many languages and works with all kinds of applications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tricentis Tosca writes "Does not require coding experience to use and comes with productivity and time-saving features ". OpenText LoadRunner Professional is most compared with Tricentis NeoLoad, OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise, OpenText LoadRunner Cloud, Apache JMeter and Akamai CloudTest, whereas Tricentis Tosca is most compared with OpenText UFT One, Katalon Studio, Worksoft Certify, Postman and SmartBear TestComplete.
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