OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise Stability

PK
Senior systems engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Its stability is fantastic. Out of 100 test executions, there is usually one case when it is not able to capture and generate the analysis file. We then use some manual methods to generate that analysis file and get the results.

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VictorHorescu - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer at iqst

I find it stable, there are no issues with its stability.

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Greg Griffiths - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead solutions architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

It is a stable product, but there are always going to be things when you introduce something, when you find a curveball that causes a problem, or when you bump into something that does not work. We just flag it up to them. Most of my guys have been around a while with various of these products, so we are able to dig in and help or support the investigation process that the support guys are doing from outside and feed that information into the support process, the R&D bug-fixing process, or the new feature request process. The guys are getting as much help as they can from us. At the end of the day, the more my guys can do to help out the OpenText guys, the better product or support we get. We get a quicker response, so we are helping OpenText support to help them help us.

Generally, if I say that something does not work and I have an error, I get an email asking for logs. I send the logs, and then they ask whether I did that as a sysadmin or as a normal user. A couple of days go by in me checking that, and it goes back in. After that, they ask about the version of patches that we are running. These are the common things that we get asked, so now, we just tick those boxes when we hand it over to OpenText support on day one so that we do not have this kind of delay in the process. We also keep looking at it because OpenText might get something working, or they might not be able to see anything with it because we might have a customized solution or we might be a slightly different version or something like that. The more we can help them and feed it back, the more information they have to zero in on where that problem is. They can come back and say that the last little bit we gave them got them on the spot, and they have now found the bug, and they can fix it. We will get that in this release, and they can hotfix it back for us. Their help is great. I am an engineer, so I always want more documentation, more support articles, and more architecture models so that I can understand more about the solution. It is good to see some of that stuff coming out as being able to be leveraged.

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OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise
March 2024
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Gopal Bansal - PeerSpot reviewer
Advisor at Fiserv

The stability is good.

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MK
Sr. Software Engineer at Wells Fargo

We had some initial issues that were resolved and since then the stability has been good. 

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SR
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Most of the time, the solution is stable. If our environment is stable, the solution is reliable. 

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LS
System administrator at Costco Wholesale

There's a window where LoadRunner is very, very stable, but we're pushing that window hard. For our use case, the tool's stability is a five out of ten.

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PS
Program Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

It is a stable solution.

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Deepak Dhar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior delivery manager at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

The stability is at a very high level. I would rate it nine out of ten.

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Samim Iqbal - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Performance Engineer at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise is stable. We are in the process of upgrading to the newer version, but the version we are using supports many applications, such as web and Java-based applications.

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Ashok Kumar K - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Test Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The solution does have some instability and hanging issues. It has to be improved as it is causing a business loss for them.

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TN
Domain Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I have not seen any stability issues. I have seen some users report some issues, but we will usually open a case if we cannot figure it out.

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Vipul-Choudhary - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Manager at _VOIS

The product is stable. There is no downtime, but sometimes some scripts get corrupted, and the script code generation takes time. There have been environmental or data machine issues.

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JB
Director of Performance Testing at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees

The solution's stability is fine.

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AA
Performance Test Professional at Schlumberger

I rate the solution’s stability an eight out of ten.

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Shuaib Gill - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Lead Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The product is reliable. It's stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

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Sreenivasula Mukkamalla - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr.Engineer csit Quality Assurance at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees

Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise is a very stable solution. My company only had to contact the Micro Focus team twice when there was an issue related to tailor-made requirements within my organization, but it wasn't because of a Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise feature, and other than that, I didn't see any issues regarding its stability.

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CB
Consultant at Capgemini Invent

The solution is stable.

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RM
Senior Consultant at Tieto Sweden AB

There are some problems with the solution's stability, so it's quite stable, but not totally stable. I give the stability an eight out of ten.

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LW
Managed Services Architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

It's a stable solution. I'd give OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise a 4.5 out of 5 on stability.

We never experienced any bugs or glitches; those are typically in the actual loads that you're running, but that's not their fault, that's your fault.

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RR
Team Lead at American Electric Power

LoadRunner Enterprise is stable.

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NJ
Performance Test Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Our tool is hosted on-premises and we have not faced stability issues as such. One of the problems that we sometimes experience is that suddenly, multiple machines become unresponsive and cannot be contacted. We call these the load generators in LoadRunner nomenclature. When this happens, we have to restart the central server machine and then, everything goes back to normal. That sort of issue happens approximately once in six months.

Apart from that, we have not observed any stability issues. There are some defects within the tool which from time to time, we have raised with OpenText. If they have a fix available, they do provide it. Importantly, it does not make the product unusable until that is fixed.

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TS
Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

I think Performance Center is pretty stable. It's the enterprise version of LoadRunner, which was a very mature tool. In fact, a lot of the components or installation files are still the exactly same. They've added this central, enterprise web front end to it that works pretty well. It's compatible on multiple browsers, on ALM. I would say it's a pretty mature, stable product.

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GaneshMuralidharan - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Delivery Head at Vaisesika consulting

The stability and performance of Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise are very good. It is a very established tool and there are not any issues with the reliability.

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it_user364155 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Infrastructure Specialist at Nordea

We're using version 11.5 right now and it's OK. The latest version is 12.5, and we need to upgrade ASAP. The previous versions were pretty unstable, but that's been fixed now.

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JR
Global Lead application migration at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise is a mature product with high stability. I rate it a nine out of ten. 

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it_user471411 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Performance Engineering at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

It's good. It's been around a long time and we've been using it a long time. It's stable.

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it_user671403 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Performance Center is more stable than ALM. We roll out a version, and I think it fits for our clients. If it is a very early version, then we have to implement a patch. Afterwards, it is quiet, hopefully, for at least one or two years.

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KM
Senior Performace Engineer at Yolandi,miller@multichoice.co.za

Stability is alright. I would rate the stability a nine out of ten. The only reason I'm not giving it a ten is that sometimes the controller crashes when a test is about to finish. 

It can be frustrating, especially if you run a long test for an hour and it crashes near the end. You can recover the results, but it requires some effort. That's the main stability issue I've encountered. Other than that, it's pretty stable.

So, it can run stably for an hour on some occasions, but on others, it might crash within fifteen minutes.

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DS
Performance Task Consultant at PCS Systemtechnik GmbH

I rate OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise's stability a nine out of ten. 

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RM
Senior Consultant at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We have had some problems with instability. At one point Performance Center suddenly went down for two days, but usually, it works. It works okay now and has not been a problem, but it was worse in the beginning. They have changed something, so it is better now than it was, I think.

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it_user671391 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

HPE Quality Center ALM is stable. It obviously has not got the attractiveness of Octane. As going forward, Octane probably does now take it to the next step.

The one thing I always said about ALM, and I'll say this to everybody. The worst thing about it is it did not have zero footprint on your PC. The amount of effort and the cost to upgrade to the next version, the amount of problems that it gave us in terms of trying to put a patch on, because it was particularly essential, was really bad for the business.

We had many different PC models out there on people's desks, so it wasn't just a case of patching or building a new MSI package for one PC. You had to do it for a whole range and then you had to deploy them at exactly the same time or somebody would find that they couldn't use Quality Center.

Octane, now being zero footprint, is probably going to be one of the biggest cost savings I see.

Performance Center seems to be stable. It's probably being utilized far more readily than, say, even Unified Functional Testing.
There are issues with it that mostly seem to be environmental. You'd be surprised how many people think they know about how to do performance testing and then they start using a server that's in one area of the UK to try and run a performance test on servers in another country.

I’m thinking, “why are you running such a transaction load across our network.” Whereas, they should really be in the local area. So, with Performance Center, most of the issues are more user-based. Technically, it seems to meet the task that you need it to do.

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it_user331326 - PeerSpot reviewer
Portfolio Testing Infrastructure Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

No issues encountered.

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

It is stable.

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it_user339312 - PeerSpot reviewer
Stress And Volume (Performance) Test Lead at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user739572 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior qa manager at a leisure / travel company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've had a few crashes, but overall they seem to be more of the aging architecture, the hardware's not as reliable. A few software bugs in there, which we have to work around. But overall, it's been pretty reliable when you think about how much load goes through it and the number of people using it.

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it_user739533 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

As of now, it's working great for us, it's excellent. We don't have any issues. That's one of the reasons we are pushing forward to version 12, to incorporate the other protocols, which version 12 comes up with.

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it_user739554 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Presales Engineer at a tech company with 51-200 employees

It's great. I don't have a problem with stability at all, as long as you have it scaled properly and you have sufficient hardware in place. If you're running it all on a VM, you're going to have a problem, but if you run it with the proper infrastructure, it's a very solid product.

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it_user470412 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality Assurance Advisor at McKesson

We are still learning and evaluating it.

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it_user484959 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Service Transition and Quality Management at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield

Our performance engineering team has feedback on Performance Center, so they don't utilize as many of the features as they should. They have it, part of it could be training, but they're not using it as much as they should. They use it, but they're not taking full advantage of all the features in it, meaning they are not combining it with UFT, etc.

They just run it to run the virtual users and then load and stress test, and that's pretty much what they're doing. They're not really taking advantage of the whole stack like we do. That's another group as well.

Stable in the fact that it does what it does, it does it well. Why they use other tools, that's where I would say there's some poly-functionality that has to be improved in the product. I'd have to specifically interrogate them on what they're not getting out of it. It's stable, it's up, and it runs, but if you want to look at is it as highly leveraged as it could be, it's not so much.

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it_user398358 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, IT Product Support at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's stable now.

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it_user62265 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, IT Quality Assurance, and Testing with 10,001+ employees

No issues encountered.

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

The stability on the old versions is good. On the newer versions, I think the bleeding edge is still being worked on.

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it_user337059 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Test Consultant at a government with 10,001+ employees

We've had no issues with stability.

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it_user324312 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Service Management Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Running virtual users especially with a huge number is a very challenging task. The load generators may over utilize its resources (CPU/ memory) due to improper default configurations, or improper use of LoadRunner and Performance Center. Many considerations should be taken into account when optimizing resources when doing this task. For example, running the recorded script as a service at the load generator is different from running it as a process.

Also, customizing the auto-generated script in virual user generation may cause problems when ramping up the number of users. For example, simulating a generated list of variables that would be used by every virtual user is important.

Lastly, taking care of variable sizing and limitation should be reviewed, and otherwise errors may appear at certain point of running the script.

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it_user324924 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Initially (11.x) its stability left a little to be desired, but I feel HP has worked diligently to fine tune the tool so that today, the most noticeable lag occurs during the startup of a load test. Once the test is running, the tool performs as expected.

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GP
Team Leader at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

LoadRunner Enterprise is very stable.

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RR
Associate at Tech Mahindra Limited

In terms of stability, it depends on what you are using. Sometimes version 5.3 and the newer versions are not stable. The latest versions we are finding are not so stable when compared with the previous versions we've used, so some glitches are there. They need to rectify that. It was stable for two years, and now it's not.

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it_user739569 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance lead at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I find it very stable. I will say that with the changes to virtual machines and things like that, It is harder now to manage. That's one of the reasons we are looking at not only using Performance Center, but also StormRunner. That gets us away from needing to scale up; doing that within Performance Center can be difficult because you have to deal with the aspects of all that infrastructure. It's not the tool itself, but it's the underlying infrastructure that you have to manage. Something like StormRunner is promising because it gets you away from that a little bit. Somebody else is taking care of that aspect of it.

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it_user366069 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Test Lead at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The stability is very good. A couple years ago, you might have been able to point a finger at HPE and say maybe they weren't doing enough with the product; so it was probably unstable. As it is, over the last couple of years, they've innovated a bit more. There's been a bit more change without losing the core stability.

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it_user739596 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of QA at a insurance company

Yes, I would say it is stable. We haven't had a problem with stability.

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it_user343314 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managed Performance Test Consultant at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

Performance Center requires regular maintenance in order to remain stabl

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MA
DevOps Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Although it is stable, the whole performance testing process becomes very slow because of its complex scripting and having to rework the scripts. Ultimately, this will become obsolete if it is not improved.

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it_user332226 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Administrator at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user253317 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Very stable. Our only issue is that we consistently need more load generators.

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it_user96453 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of QA at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Yes, though I believe these were caused by our infrastructure implementation and not the product. View full review »
it_user149331 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Test Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user334491 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Software Test Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Only very rarely does it do so, but there have been issues with its host going into non-operational status.

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it_user590508 - PeerSpot reviewer
R&D Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
it_user370137 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Test Specialist at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The stability is pretty good.

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RS
Performance and Fault-tolerance Architect with 1,001-5,000 employees
it_user336363 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Load and Performance Test Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user671385 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Engineer at a transportation company with 11-50 employees

Stability is pretty good. We only had a few glitches over the past few years.

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it_user104979 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Lead at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees

Stability has some room for improvement.

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it_user337041 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Monitoring and Automation Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

There are many issues that require day-to-day maintenance. The issues vary from customer to customer, and I can’t list all the issues as it becomes business as usual.

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it_user326439 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I didn't face any major issues.

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it_user332640 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Test Engineer/Test Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user671514 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
it_user671514 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Buyer's Guide
OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.