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"I don't know the licensing cost, but I think that you would get a discount for normal usage. I think there are different yearly options for different types of usage. It is not only how many users, but also whether it is shareable or not and other criteria involved in each feature. There are additional fees for the users and hardware linked to the processing." "The licensing fees are based on the number of users." "It is competing with other products that may cost significantly less or may be available as open-source. Because of that it is relatively expensive." "LoadRunner Professional is an expensive product." "This is not a cheap product." "There is a licensing cost that is expensive." More Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional Pricing and Cost Advice » | "For the cloud services option, you buy a subscription per account or per user. This costs around $52 a month per person." "I think that the pricing is quite good." More Visual Studio Test Professional Pricing and Cost Advice » |
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Top Answer: LoadRunner is the best load testing tool, however, it is very expensive. The factors to purchase are:
1. It can simulate load a large number of concurrent users using small HW resources (CPU memory)… more » | Top Answer: The most valuable features are tools like IntelliSense and ReSharper.
Top Answer: I think that the pricing is quite good. Top Answer: The integration with Git needs improving because it is a bit disjointed and unpredictable. The diagrammatic representation of the database in the entity framework is helpful but it seems to have been… more » |
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Views 16,126 Comparisons 11,609 Reviews 15 Average Words per Review 492 Rating 7.8 | Views 3,288 Comparisons 2,684 Reviews 8 Average Words per Review 392 Rating 8.6 |
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| Micro Focus LoadRunner, HPE LoadRunner, LoadRunner | |
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LoadRunner is the Micro Focus industry-standard software solution for application performance and load testing. LoadRunner stresses your entire system to isolate and identify potential client, network, and server bottlenecks, supporting performance testing of new technologies together with your existing, legacy applications. | Visual Studio Professional Edition provides an IDE for all supported development languages. As of Visual Studio 2010, the Standard edition was dropped. MSDN support is available as MSDN Essentials or the full MSDN library depending on licensing. It supports XML and XSLT editing, and can create deployment packages that only use ClickOnce and MSI. It includes tools like Server Explorer and integration with Microsoft SQL Server also. Windows Mobile development support was included in Visual Studio 2005 Standard, however, with Visual Studio 2008, it is only available in Professional and higher editions. Windows Phone 7 development support was added to all editions in Visual Studio 2010. Development for Windows Mobile is no longer supported in Visual Studio 2010; it is superseded by Windows Phone 7. |
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Sample Customers | |
| JetBlue, GOME, Australian Red Cross Blood Service, RMIT University, Virgin Media | Transport for Greater Manchester, Ordina, Bluegarden A/S, CLEAResult, Jet.com, OSIsoft, Australian Taxation Office, BookedOut, Tracasa |
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Financial Services Firm28% Computer Software Company24% Comms Service Provider12% Healthcare Company8% Computer Software Company45% Comms Service Provider14% Government6% Financial Services Firm6% | Computer Software Company38% Manufacturing Company25% Transportation Company13% Healthcare Company13% Computer Software Company37% Comms Service Provider19% Financial Services Firm7% Insurance Company6% |
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Small Business20% Midsize Enterprise11% Large Enterprise69% Small Business6% Midsize Enterprise5% Large Enterprise89% | Small Business14% Midsize Enterprise14% Large Enterprise71% |
Find out what your peers are saying about Micro Focus, Apache, Neotys and others in Performance Testing Tools. Updated: January 2021.
456,495 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is ranked 1st in Performance Testing Tools with 16 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 11th in Functional Testing Tools with 10 reviews. Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is rated 7.8, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional writes "Good synchronization capabilities but pilot processing needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Visual Studio Test Professional writes "Good integration between the management data and the test cases". Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is most compared with Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise, Micro Focus LoadRunner Cloud, Apache JMeter, Neotys NeoLoad and RadView WebLOAD, whereas Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with TFS, Apache JMeter, Katalon Studio, Ranorex Studio and Neotys NeoLoad.
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