OpenText LoadRunner Cloud Valuable Features

Richard Dachowski - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Quality & Test Architect at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Both the professional and cloud versions of Micro Focus LoadRunner use the same scripting or programming to execute performance modeling operations. 

This feature allows users to use various programming languages such as Java, C, or C++, which can run within either of the two environments. This flexibility in the programming language is a strong point of the software.

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DP
Cloud Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

The beauty of LoadRunner Cloud is that we can use the load generator that is hosted by us on-premises, and we also have the option to use their hosted load generator. If it is a public-hosted application, we can also use their public-hosted load generator, but in our case, all our applications are hosted in our data center, so we are using the on-premise load generator. We have the option to deploy those load generators as we want. We have deployed our VMs there. We have deployed them in our OCP cluster, and we have also deployed them in our AWS instance. On a day-to-day basis, we do load testing of our applications, and that load is distributed with a different load generator.

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PH
Performance & Analytics Team Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It is feature-rich. It supports most protocols, which is important because I am in charge of a team at the bank, and we do performance testing for all kinds of different applications. We have tons of them. We even do video streams.

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OpenText LoadRunner Cloud
March 2024
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Senior Manager - Performance Architect at Publicis Sapient

It's a fast product, so you don't have much trouble in terms of maintenance overhead. You don't want to just look into configuring load generators, look for upgrades, and end up having that take up a lot of your time. With this solution, you just log in and you start using it. This means that there is a huge benefit in terms of the overhead of maintaining the infrastructure and the maintenance effort.

Some retailers have a global presence now, and you can spin the load generator from whatever location you need. You can easily run distributed load testing, rather than procuring the load test across the globe and then getting tunneling, etc. That's one of the great features.

LoadRunner Cloud's reporting features are valuable as well. We can get a quick PDF without having to analyze the local data and then imaging it in the report.

Sometimes, on private or a standalone instances we see users getting dropped off. You may have started to run your test with 2000 users, and you may see that a few users got dropped off. Finding the reason is always hectic. I haven't seen these issues on LoadRunner Cloud.

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SN
Performance Test Lead at HTC

The product’s most valuable feature is the Vuser license; it allows us to reduce the cost as per requirement. Additionally, its setup process is accessible as well.

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SamirPatle - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Performance Analyst at EPAM Systems

The reports are very relevant to the customers’ expectations. The tool has its own APIs for its customers. It is very easy to collect the performance data. In the last year, we have executed major tests multiple times. It's very easy to use the APIs to collect our results and create a dashboard as per our needs.

It is very important to us that we can plan and run tests using LoadRunner Cloud without having to manage testing infrastructure. It was a niche requirement for us not to bother about those things and focus on the main targets. It is the best thing that we can get. The solution saves us money by not having to maintain hardware and the power costs associated with the hardware. We have saved 25% of the cost.

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GA
- at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

One of LoadRunner's standout features is its extensive support for various TechStacks and protocols. Unlike other tools, LoadRunner excels in integration and protocol support, ensuring it can capture data behind proxies and work seamlessly with diverse technology environments. This versatility makes it invaluable for testing applications across different platforms and protocols.

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Rachit Raj - PeerSpot reviewer
Head -Consulting and Delivery at Avekshaa Technologies

We used Load Runner Cloud particularly to do spike testing and it was great. 

The license can be used across the entire year. They make it flexible so that we can use it across multiple applications throughout the year for various concurrencies and time periods.

The TCO has been optimized along with the total ROI. 

The product being is part of the Gartner magic quadrant and scores well against open-source products. This helps us with certain regulators who look at technology adoption.

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AB
Lead Performance Test Engineer at bol.com BV

The TruClient feature is the most valuable for us. An application with testing can only be scripted using TruClient, so it's part web-based, but it also has its own protocol combined with HTTP and HTML. So many other tools do not recognize this specific proprietary protocol. Using TruClient, we can still create scripts that cover everything that we need to cover.

It supports multiple protocols, which is important to us. We also use JMeter open source combined in LoadRunner Cloud. In our company, we also use open-source performance testing tools like JMeter, Gatling, and Locust. It's important to be able to embed those scripts as well into a LoadRunner-based performance test. So it would really help us to have a single place for all kinds of test scripts and the open-source ones.

It's also very important to us that LoadRunner allows full integration into the ACI pipeline. We were focusing on a shift left on not only functional testing but also performance testing. And we're trying to integrate the performance testing in our CI/CD pipelines currently. So the better it supports this, the better and easier it is for us.

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CM
Senior Performance Engineer at City of New York

The most valuable feature is that we do not have to accommodate the load-testing infrastructure in our own data center. Normally for load testing, you have to have your own hardware and tools on-premises. With LoadRunner Cloud, the testing will be done remotely using their resources.

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PavanKumar2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

We are able to see the analysis component, and it automatically generates a report from the tool itself after completing the load test. I like that feature. It has great automated reporting features where the report will be generated from the tool itself.

It's user-friendly and it supports a lot of protocols.

The solution can scale.

The stability is good. 

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MD
Sr. Technical Test Analyst at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

Recently I have found the TruClient tool to be very useful. My team is involved in a lot of performance testing of applications including mobile platforms and different types of web browsers. In those cases, LoadRunner TruClient is very crucial to testing the performance. TruClient is one of the best features, one I use every day to create load scenarios.

The fact that the solution supports multiple protocols such as open source, VuGen, TruWeb, TruClient, and SAP is very important because these protocols help us to concentrate on what is really needed to produce performance tests. If something is not supported, you have to use other tools or find other ways of assimilating loads. For example, when you are trying to create loads for web applications, if it's not TruClient, you need to find and analyze every call: What the HTTP request is, and what the other kinds of requests are that we need to call, and then correlate all the correlation identifiers. All of that is taken care of by TruClient and other protocols. That is actually very beneficial across all the platforms. For example, a SAP application might be tested for mobile. We can use a combination of the SAP protocol and TruClient protocol. The combinations are very helpful for performance testing.

LoadRunner Cloud gives you a lot of options, even for multi-browser or multi-device testing. It has been the main tool that can do everything; complete end-to-end performance testing.

The support for large-scale testing is also an important feature in our operations. We have thousands of users and it provides the best solution. You can have an unlimited number of users, although you would need to pay for them, but that's a different story. In our organization, the maximum number of users is currently about 20,000 to 30,000. It's a one-stop solution. I can configure my load on the cloud environment and have 30,000 virtual users on the cloud. I don't need to create the infrastructure locally and I don't have to maintain it. Everything is taken care of by the solution.

In addition, its ability to run unlimited concurrent tests without worrying about hardware availability helps eliminate hardware dependency. You don't need to have the load generators on your network. You don't need to maintain those systems and you don't need to have that kind of network capability. If you're testing on-prem, but you don't have the network capacity to scale up to millions of users, LoadRunner Cloud enables you to create virtual networks and use the cloud to generate those kinds of loads. You can then analyze what the impact will be to your system when you have millions of users. LoadRunner Cloud is the best way to do that.

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Abbasi Poonawala - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Enterprise Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The record and playback feature is the most valuable feature. It's all driven by the script, so it's a script-based tool where the background tracing starts. Java's background process does a lot of tracing. The process starts in the background. It sees what peaks of volumes the process can handle. It's easy to use because it's script based, record and playback. I play certain tests. I record those tests, see how they pass through the entire environment, and see how many breaks I get. 

Then we repeat that for multiple numbers. If the first time, I pumped in 1 million trades, and get 5% of the failures, then I try with 2 million trades and I see that there is a 7% failure. These scenarios are easy to do in the LoadRunner. LoadRunner has been the best tool for more than 20 years in the market.

You can do endurance testing, you can do load testing. These are the different types of load testing. It lets you see how much volume you can benchmark in your entire environment, given the resources like CPU and RAM. 

The record and playback is the best feature. You need to use a console. You log in to your console and see the dashboard with how many trades failed and how many trades passed, what the peak loads endurance load were. 

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AK
Senior Performance Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

StormRunner itself is a pretty good hybrid product of Performance Center. Keeping up with DevOps, thus the best feature of StormRunner is that we don't have to build and maintain infrastructure anymore. Whenever we have to test lab scale applications, and in a scenario where we don't have to test every day, we don't have to build the machines and pay for it. Instead, we can get the infrastructure from on-demand from StormRunner, and its ability to run it anywhere just by opening it in browser is the best part. The evolution of StormRunner starting with supporting LoadRunner along with the open source technologies like JMeter and Selenium. Their unit testing tools are actually very advanced in the region of the product. That's why I would recommend anyone to use StormRunner, even though something is not supported now, eventually it's going to be supported by StormRunner. That's the kind of credibility that's needed for any customer when it comes to relying on a product or going for a new product.

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AK
Supervisor, Quality Assurance at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The product supports a wide variety of technology compared to any other tool.

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HM
Lead Software Engineer ( Performance Engineering Salesforce) at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

The solution is intuitive, easy to use and navigate.

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PL
Performance Diagnostic Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We find the ease of infrastructure maintenance and the enhanced capabilities of the cloud version, such as browser metrics, valuable.

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CS
IT Project Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature is having load generators in countries where we don’t have access to them.

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it_user468114 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Performance Analyst at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

The reason we chose it and the most valuable feature is the amount of virtual users we can run in a test. We have run up to 900,000 users.

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it_user230619 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Architect at Gallop Solutions

StormRunner Load reduces the overall time for performance testing engagement and is best suited for the products in agile process. Easy to automate and execute the tests, StormRunner Load provides a feature to compare the current test results with the previous results to see if the current build is better than the previous or not.

With the ability to integrate with monitoring tools like SiteScope and APM tools like New Relic, performance bottlenecks in the applications can be identified very quickly and easily.

Protocol Support

StormRunner Load supports Web, Web Services, SAP Web and JMeter scripts

Easy Automation

StormRunner Load uses Truclient and TruAPI (which uses node.js) which enables developers and testers to quickly automate the user actions at the browser level, which also helps measuring the end user experience by measuring the browser rendering times as well. Performance testers can upload their LoadRunner scripts that are developed using LR 12.XX to StormRunner Load directly.

High Scalability

StormRunner Load is highly scalable and supports upto 1 million concurrent users.

On Premise Load Generators

StormRunner Load introduces the concept of On Premise Load Generators to compare the application performance within the network to various other geographical locations.

Configure SLAs

SLAs can be configured in StormRunner Load during the test execution. The tool highlights all the transactions that did not meet the SLAs and further drill down can help the users understand the geographical locations and times where the SLAs are not met.

Real time anomaly detection

During the test execution, StormRunner Load detects any anomalies where the test results are deviated for a specific transaction / geographical location / script / counter to identify the issues real time and further drill down provides more details about the anomalies.

Integration with Monitoring Tools

StormRunner Load integrates with monitoring tools like SiteScope to provide the hardware and application level metrics during the performance tests. StormRunner Load can also integrate with New Relic and other similar APM tools that helps identifying the server side bottlenecks so that organization can reuse investments

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it_user273663 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Load Tester with 1,001-5,000 employees

The platform is easy to use for uploading and backing up scripts.

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it_user671397 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature is the ability to configure browser settings for different operating systems and on different versions without the need to install every single version on each machine and to manage them. This is the most useful feature that I'm interested in.

I'm also interested in mobile center services related to StormRunner functions because we are going to determine which will be the best solution for developing mobile testing. And we are interested in outsourcing mobile testing, so this kind of environment will be useful as we are not engaged in the configuration of infrastructure. Also, I think it will be useful because Storm Runner functionality does not need specific configuration because the configuration basis is in the UFT and the UFT can be in our environment. We do a lot of configuration because we develop a custom framework related to UFT. So, I appreciate that configuration can be managed by us, while the browser can be released on the remit version.

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it_user426591 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Performance Architect at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

JMeter script integration. This integration feature is a good approach provided by HPE. Sometimes, we need to run scripts developed in an open source tool like JMeter. Instead of spending time on creating new scripts, the scripts developed in JMeter can be uploaded and based on the protocol license because it is a DEV user protocol, it provides a valuable feature when integrated with StormRunner.

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it_user468132 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant/Partner at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

It's the license and structure because it's so dynamic. Virtual user hours is much more dynamic than virtual user days, and even more dynamic than static licenses. I did a test a short time ago where we could keep the test to half an hour so we could really optimize this virtual user hour. That was wonderful.

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it_user251874 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Analyst at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Load generator setup is not required so we can be running high concurrency tests in few minutes.
  • Scenario setup for running tests was very easy.
  • Distribution of the load from different locations was very easy.
  • SiteScope and New Relic monitoring tools can be easily integrated with StormRunner Load.
  • SLA configuration was available to monitor response times.
  • Navigation breakdown report - to create a client navigation breakdown report.
  • Real time graphs for monitoring results.
  • Email reports.
  • Benchmark- comparing previous test results with current tests.
  • Anomalies detection.
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it_user567969 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Architect at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's in the cloud. Everything goes in the cloud. We needed something that's easy to set up in the cloud so we can use it directly there.

It's very easy to set up a load test, to start it and end it. It is valuable that it is very easy to use.

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it_user469167 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

We've seen in the past where we have customers that use other performance testing products such as LoadRunner and Performance Center that they often have the need to do spike testing. Their testing for 1,000 virtual users running at the same time but before the application goes into production or before a big event, they need to scale up to 10,000, 20,000, 50,000, and so forth. We want to make sure that they can test to those specific limits and StormRunner allows us to do that.

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it_user232020 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Test Analyst with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • The fact that you don't have to worry about the infrastructure setup.
  • The fact that 1000's of virtual users can log on to the cloud without having to set up.
  • Provides a solution for new or existing customers.
  • Alternative to LoadRunner, for new or existing clients with agile.
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it_user197508 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Test Architect and HP ALM Expert at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
  • Ability to get started on the fly
  • Reusability of existing HTTP/HTML scripts
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it_user272247 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Team Lead with 501-1,000 employees

The charts dashboard, especially the results screen, is the most valuable feature. I’ve also configured the tests, so I’ve also used the test definition page, which is very easy to use, self-explanatory, and simple. The real value comes from the results screen.

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it_user232248 - PeerSpot reviewer
Strategic Account Manager with 51-200 employees
  • The ability to spin upload really fast.
  • The ability to create a script easily against an application.
  • The ability to provision the load so it comes from multiple geographies across the world. 
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JI
Database Leader at Skupos Inc.

The most valuable feature is that you can create an infrastructure on-demand and do performance testing with it. There is no need to create physical infrastructure.

Using this solution does not require the use of a load generator.

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it_user739599 - PeerSpot reviewer
Support director of academic systems

It's very valuable because with StormRunner we can validate the capacity of our systems. Specifically, we use it for one system that is from two years ago. We have an increment of the users, about 300% more, so we need to assure that the quality of the service keeps up with the users. StormRunner helps us to validate that.

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it_user54837 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Director - Quality Assurance at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

Flexibility and speed to provision and start large (high concurrency) performance testing cycles.

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it_user368772 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Sales at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

It's fast, easy to use, has a user-friendly UI, and you can split users. It also works well with SiteScope and other HP products.

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it_user240087 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO and Co-Founder with 51-200 employees

I can use it just as much as I need. It is quick and intuitive.

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SP
Technical Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The usability and ability to integrate with other solutions is quite good. When I use it in on Azure, then Red Hat is the most likely solution I use. When I use AWS, then I tend to use Lambda functions. In either case, it works well and you can use it either way.

The features on offer do everything we need them to.

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Buyer's Guide
OpenText LoadRunner Cloud
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about OpenText LoadRunner Cloud. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.