OpenText LoadRunner Professional Benefits

HelenSague - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Performance Testing Specialist at Canadian Pacific Railway

LoadRunner Professional has helped a lot. Very often, I get a request from the release team, and I have one or two days to prepare a script and run the test. It is very fast and robust. LoadRunner does not need a lot of time to prepare results and drill down. It is very good. I also like network virtualization and service visualization.

LoadRunner Professional saves time because I know how to start, what I need to prepare, and what I need to put in conditions. It is very old. It saves 50% to 70% of my time because I have extensive experience with it.

It has helped improve our product quality and application quality. It helps to make decisions about whether to go or not go for something. We are a railway company, and we are not producing software. We develop software or solutions based on the existing solutions. For example, when we have an OpenText new release, we have to run performance tests against OpenText servers to validate that everything is okay. It is the same with other applications such as SAP and so on.

LoadRunner has helped to reduce our workload. I now have virtual users doing these tests. It is very good and flexible. For example, LoadRunner can now support Windows Server 2016, 2018, and 2019. I know that some other companies do not do that. It sometimes saves almost 100% of the workload because I have different applications, and I have to jump from one type of application to another. It is very good.

A few of our developers use LoadRunner Developer to start and run small unit tests, but they are application killers because all kinds of problems are seen at a very early stage.

We used the TruClient feature for browser-based testing. It helped me a lot. I remember when COVID started, we started to test an Amazon chatbot for our employees and customers for questions and answers. Amazon is using pretty tricky encryption, and LoadRunner was perfect. It saved me a lot of time. It was the first tool that worked with that level of correlation, security, and encryption. It was perfect for me.

TruClient has helped reduce scripting work. Very often, I also use TruClient for functional testing. It sometimes reduces even more than 80% of scripting work.

Our application performance is much better after running the tests. I can present monitoring results. I can present server results and database results. We can correlate them. We can correlate transaction failures, and we can correlate and see what went wrong on the server side or the database side. For example, for Oracle or SQL Server, we can monitor cursors and memory leaks. We found a lot of memory leaks with servers.

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Kulveer Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Manager at Amtrak

We do not have these unexpected outages because we didn't size our infrastructure feature based on the load. So we made an assumption or a guesstimate. When it would go live in production, things started breaking. 

That's where LoadRunner comes into the picture. We can run a realistic user load and see what functions are breaking. Because in IT, some functions work up to a little certain load. After that, they become fragile and stop working. 

We have a lot of distributed applications. That creates a lot of channels because we use ten different APIs and functions to provide one service for a user Outlook phone service. 

LoadRunner has helped us save time. If we don't do load testing, we'll end up opening seven or eight tickets and then redoing everything for the next six months. It definitely saves us time—approximately 30 to 40 days per project in man-hours.

Fewer outages mean better product quality for our customers and for our development team. Because then the development team doesn't need to focus on fixing what broke today and why it broke. 

Sometimes, when a function starts breaking under load, it's hard to determine the root cause. We might think that the function is not working properly, but it's actually working as per our requirements. It's not working for 20,000 or 10,000 users when we only tested it for 5,000 users. Then, database and server limits start popping up, issues that cannot be fixed quickly or easily. That's where load testing adds value. It allows us to break our product before a customer breaks it and then see what kind of issues we'll see under extra load. That's where LoadRunner comes in.

LoadRunner has helped us reduce our workloads. We avoid all these outages. We don't realize it until it breaks. We think, "Oh, we're not going to have any problems." But once it breaks, we have to bring in our resources, which should be working on a new project, but now they're stuck with this problem because we didn't do load testing. So, it all ties together. 

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SP
Lead Performance Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

LoadRunner Professional installation is pretty straightforward. I encountered challenges mainly when working for an energy organization as part of a COE (Center of Excellence).

In such scenarios, handling projects varied, sometimes involving SaaS platforms or terminal emulators for different protocols. Dealing with less common protocols could be tricky, and that's when we require support.

LoadRunner has improved our processes in the sense that once you record a script, even if you have to run a small generation, a developer can run it. They can even use it for their regression testing, you can use it. With parameterization, we can reuse LoadRunner to run in different environments just by changing the URL. You don't have to rescript.

LoadRunner is a tool you need to invest in beforehand. Once the installation is done, the major investment goes into scripting. You have to customize the script.

Once the script is customized, it's reusable. In a day, you might need to run multiple performance tests, so you can just keep running them as many times as you can through, like in the pre-prod environment, and then the prod environment. It definitely saves a lot of time. 

Moreover, LoadRunner Professional has improved our product quality because, with the shift-left testing, we can detect early issues. We can run the test and then smaller bugs when it goes into production. The quality definitely improves.

It has also reduced the workload in the sense that when I was working in healthcare, we had to do a trend analysis report, and we wanted to run the test interactively. If we put the scenario in our auto-scheduler, we can check the report in the morning and we don't have to babysit it. We just run it.

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Aphiwat Leetavorn. - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Director, Share Holder at Marco Technology

It helps save a lot of time compared to manual performance testing. It is like a robot that helps run the scripts. And other tools, such as free tools or IBM, are mostly programming-based. LoadRunner has more functions than other tools, and that also saves a lot of time compared to those tools.

The time savings mean it has reduced my workload. Using another tool, we could produce a script in about two days. But with LoadRunner, we can do it in one day or even less than one day. LoadRunner has also helped improve our product performance.

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Mahendra Andhale - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Test Lead at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It also contributed to improving the quality of our products. By saving time, we're able to identify performance issues and address them more quickly, which ultimately leads to better quality.

It helped reduce our workload overall. The customization options make it easier to manage tasks.

We're now able to identify and address issues that arise during peak loads. We are able to figure out things and handle peak loads now. 

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DS
Performance Task Consultant at PCS Systemtechnik GmbH

What distinguishes OpenText LoadRunner Professional from other solutions is its controller log, which we use to simulate the number of users, and its user-friendly UI settings, which allows us to mimic user activity during performance testing.

LoadRunner has helped us save time. With a proper understanding of how the interface works, we can complete tasks quickly.

Employing LoadRunner has significantly enhanced our product quality, which is of paramount importance to us. With LoadRunner, we can precisely identify performance bottlenecks within our application and implement effective solutions to optimize its performance.

When it comes to simulation and report management, LoadRunner helps reduce our workload.

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Omkar  Sawant - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

LoadRunner Professional allowed us to load test potential new payroll solutions that would be implemented throughout the entire organization so that we knew which was best suited to performing well under pressure. 

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AN
Script analyst at Alpha Citra Siber Indonesia

Grouping scripts based on IDs in LoadRunner Professional saved me a significant amount of time. Being able to record and manage scripts according to specific IDs streamlined the testing process. Using LoadRunner Professional's script grouping feature, I saved approximately 30 minutes on testing scheduling.

LoadRunner Professional's features, especially the script grouping, significantly contributed to improving product quality. The tool enabled efficient identification of issues during testing, fostering better collaboration within the team and facilitating quicker problem resolution.

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Abin K Raj - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Architect Applications and Performance at Max Stack Labs

LoadRunner has helped in projects where we needed to use different protocols. It's also for clients who had already bought LoadRunner before and wanted to make use of it. 

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SJ
Engineer 2 at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I've found the option - remote application via LoadRunner Proxy to be the most valuable feature which played vital role in recording network traffic of mobile application. Very helpful for mobile scripting

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SM
Manager sap at Southwest Gas Corporation

The executive management is more confident when they go for production. They know that the performance issues are already addressed. 

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VC
Lead Solution Architect at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees

Think about the performance testing as a part of the whole of your testing lifecycle. It's our go-to product and that's the only product which we use within the organization right now. Not every project goes through performance testing, but any project that has performance testing is a component of the test lifecycle. It has our de facto standard.

When you think about deploying these applications to production, and our organization being a global company, we have a user footprint across the globe. LoadRunner, along with HPE Envy Network Virtualization: It's a combination where we, not only run business processes in volumes, but also similar to these network conditions, helps us identify some performance issues well in advance. It's one of those risk verifications that we do.

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SM
Performance Test Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

The product gives protocol support to our organization. It is the biggest benefit.

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RA
Performance Architect at valuelabs LLP

Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional improved our organization's functioning. However, the cost is very high, and the support system is very low. If you ask for one ticket, like, you create a case, and they'll come back in one week of time. Then, they keep asking for most of the access to the environment, which is, like, the client's environment, and we can't provide access to the support. So there are a lot of challenges with those things. Upgrading to the new versions has a lot of challenges. The tool, access, and features they are building meet industry standards and are very helpful.

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HR
Performance Test Line manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is an on-premises solution, but we have our own internal cloud where we have deployed it. However, it is considered an on-premise solution.

Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional can be used on any application. This is a tool we use to create a concurrent transaction on an application. We can do traffic simulating for end-users behavior. 

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it_user285924 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Performance Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have the manpower, the resources. One of the thing which I realized is let's say if you have another tool which is equal or there are more comparable abilities, but it's kind of hard to get resources for those tools who are skilled. I see a bunch of resources easily available in the market for LoadRunner and HP products and I feel like this could be possible because it's kind of industry leader in the testing tools or something.

There are a lot of people using LoadRunner I can say that. The issues what we get from doing performance testing, some of the issues are not specific to tool, but because we have such a huge community in HP tools we kind of get some solutions easily from the outside world as well in the communities I guess.

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GA
Lead Test Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

This solution provides a one-stop-shop for what we need.

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it_user471417 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT QA Test Manager at a leisure / travel company with 1,001-5,000 employees

In the old days, if you wanted to run load on your application, you would send out an email to 20 people, and you're all trying to do a load on an application. It allows you to scale up hundreds-thousands of users in order to simulate that.

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it_user204486 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Infuse Consulting

We use LoadRunner and its sister product Performance Center as two of the key pieces in our corporate tool kit along with other tools in delivering performance engineering services. Some of our customers insist on using this, and for them, it has helped administer payroll, deliver luggage in airports, and enabled them to support tax returns.

At Infuse, we have integrated such tools very early into early performance validation at the unit test level. This enables our customers to find defects early on in development, and combined with performance modelling in design, enables them to fix performance issues early and cheaply.

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it_user468291 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager Assurance Quality, Tests, and Environnements at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

For us it's really used by a specific group of people. It's the efficiency that it gave us to do performance testing and get results rapidly.

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it_user1124241 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head - Testing Centre of Excellence at NIIT Technologies Limited

Initially, if you wanted to produce the load from different locations, you needed to have a physical machine there. But with time, the new features ensure that you can (if you want to) have one machine in the Pacific and one in North America. You can request and you can test those machines. You can connect and you can create loads from those locations. It's a very good feature. It's made things easier for us.

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RV
QA Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

My admin was very useful for finding out how the system responds to load, stress, and normal situations, as well as benchmarking with other industry competitors. It also improved our response time, memory delegation, and CPU delegation. In addition, we used LoadRunner to optimize our database and website.

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it_user487383 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We're able to test standalone from individual machines.

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it_user348147 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Test Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees

It helped our organization to run successful performance testing cycles and to identify the bottlenecks of the application. It helped the clients run their application successfully and smoothly.

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it_user470436 - PeerSpot reviewer
Monitoring Systems and Performance Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use LoadRunner to script our applications and then run those as synthetic monitoring from BPM. So the BPM are not only proactive if any of our solutions or if any of our applications are down, but also gives us features like the screen capture editor, such as what are we seeing on the webpage while we are seeing on the application. So that kind of synthetic monitoring. We have three data centers, and we have BPM all through the data centers, and isolating and troubleshooting through a data center is helpful with BPM, and LoadRunner is indirectly helping with that.

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Aphiwat Leetavorn. - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Director, Share Holder at Marco Technology

This solution has helped us to eliminate software performance risk before going live.

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it_user363321 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

We don't have to work on another platform as we only have to learn one tool. There's a lot of information, help, and best practices available. It's a market-leading tool so there are lots of people with knowledgeable experience. Our employees are productive from day one.

Because we're a telecommunications company with millions of subscribers, we run very high volume tests for 24-48 hours. LoadRunner has been very, very stable during these tests and has gotten us results. It gives us expert diagnoses of our tests with very detailed, in-depth analyses.

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it_user332454 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Lead at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It generates reports in a format that's very easy to understand for both our own internal use and other audiences. It supports Citrix and SAP protocols, which is very helpful for our clients to understand bottlenecks if there are any on their network.

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DP
Technical Leader at Valtech

LoadRunner is an expensive tool, so mostly it is large-sized companies that would prefer LoadRunner over other legacy applications. Being with LoadRunner for so long has given a lot of opportunities for us to experiment with large workloads and even the various different types of extensions. That has actually really benefited the organization.

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it_user567588 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Quality Assurance at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It allows us to get better reliability, quicker, for the products and solutions. That means fewer critical performance issues when the product goes to market. 

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it_user129477 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Tester/QA at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
These features have helped a lot in improving the performance and scalability of application. Moreover, they have improved our brand value. View full review »
it_user368079 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We're a testing department and LoadRunner is a business enabler. Without it, we wouldn't be able to make any money.

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it_user825579 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The solution improves our organization because we can use it for recording scripts, enhancing the scripts and for running test revisions. We can therefore preform test revisions and do analysis.

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it_user166281 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Automation Specialist with 1,001-5,000 employees

I don't believe that there are any other good tools for performance testing. It's either use LoadRunner for performance testing or don't do performance testing at all.

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it_user147360 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
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it_user148428 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have performed performance testing for a number of clients using HPE LoadRunner. It has helped them in finding the performance bottlenecks, capacity issues before deployment.

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it_user739536 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal consultant at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

We use it as a performance testing tool. Obviously, performance testing helps with improving your application's performance, maintaining the stability, and the availability of systems. It's very easy to use. Sometimes, in very rare cases, we also use it for functional testing.

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it_user114969 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Test Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It expedites the process of creating test scripts

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it_user568152 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at VINCI Energies

Before going into production, we use it to validate some transactions, new environments and cloud environments.

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it_user97128 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
LoadRunner is the standard choice for performance testing before any critical applications are allowed to go live, preventing any performance issues. View full review »
RA
Director at Traydaht ltd

It provides clients with an understanding of application and system performance.

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it_user567855 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Test Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It enables us to really reproduce what users are doing in the application, not only as a single button or web service, but in the whole application. This helps us anticipate performance issues in production.

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it_user323586 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality Assurance Analyst at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

It's helped my organization to identify performance problems in the test environment before they occur in production.

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it_user98394 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a tech company with 51-200 employees
LoadRunner helped identify bottlenecks during the testing phase in several instances especially before launch of major projects. View full review »
Buyer's Guide
OpenText LoadRunner Professional
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about OpenText LoadRunner Professional. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
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