We performed a comparison between OpenText LoadRunner Professional and Visual Studio Test Professional based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, OpenText, Tricentis and others in Performance Testing Tools."The solution can handle a huge amount of workloads, it's quite scalable."
"A very comprehensive tool that is good for performance testing."
"I would rate Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional's stability at eight out of ten."
"It is an advanced tool with multiple options available for the performance system."
"My favorite feature in LoadRunner Professional is its ability to group scripts under separate IDs."
"The initial setup and installation of the software were very easy and straightforward."
"The most valuable feature depends on what we're doing at the time. In the past, the greatest feature was the ability to record and play back to produce a script. Another great feature is that we can monitor the system. They also support many protocols to perform load testing."
"I am impressed with the tool's correlation function."
"The tool has highly detailed debugging features."
"Visual Studio Test Professional's most valuable feature is the rich IDE for doing code and test development."
"Visual Studio Test Pro is super helpful for my Microsoft app work."
"Its initial setup process is easy."
"The initial setup is easy. It's easy to configure."
"We are satisfied with technical support. Communicating with them is very simple. We also have a lot of online resources to check and to study and to train our team with. The documentation is very clear and readily available."
"Customization is the most powerful feature of this product."
"The solution is easy to use and they have also integrated with Microsoft."
"The reporting and GUI have room for improvement."
"The only scenario we see a complexity is when we have single-page applications where JavaScript is talking to the server and coming back. That's the only scenario where we find some difficulties."
"The solution lacks some form of integration."
"If the support of the protocols was the same throughout the other protocols and it was there evenly, then I would rate the product higher."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is low, and ten is high-quality technical support, I rate the support a one."
"Sometimes we are not be able to click on some of the buttons due to the screen mismatching and compatibility issues."
"The solution uses a lot of memory and then it dies. It's difficult to work with the solution sometimes when you run a scenario it dies. They need to make the solution lighter somehow."
"The solution needs to reduce its pricing. Right now, it's quite expensive."
"I would like to see more integration in the solution."
"The solution's deployment is not very easy and should be made easier."
"In Visual Studio we still don't have anything which can pinpoint memory leaks on a certain code line."
"One of the problems with this solution is you need to be highly technically skilled to operate it, it is not for everyone."
"Visual Studio Test Professional is a little pricey."
"The service right now is far too expensive. You need to pay per user."
"The vendor must release a lightweight version of the solution."
"Sometimes, the solution hangs, so its performance could be improved."
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OpenText LoadRunner Professional is ranked 2nd in Performance Testing Tools with 76 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 7th in Functional Testing Tools with 46 reviews. OpenText LoadRunner Professional is rated 8.4, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6. 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 Visual Studio Test Professional writes "Customization is a key feature as is the ability to integrate with third-party services ". OpenText LoadRunner Professional is most compared with Tricentis NeoLoad, OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise, OpenText LoadRunner Cloud, Apache JMeter and IBM Rational Performance Tester, whereas Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with TFS, Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, SmartBear TestComplete and OpenText UFT Developer.
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