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What is LoadRunner Professional?
A solution simplifies performance load testing for colocated teams. With project-based capabilities, so teams can quickly identify abnormal application behavior.
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Perfect solution for on-premises load testing
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- End to end performance management (6)9.090%
- Deployment model flexibility (6)9.090%
- Real time monitoring (5)6.161%
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What is LoadRunner Professional?
A solution simplifies performance load testing for colocated teams. With project-based capabilities, so teams can quickly identify abnormal application behavior.
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Load Testing
Load testing is the simplest form of performance testing and is designed to test system behavior under expected loads
- 9End to end performance management(6) Ratings
Identify end to end performance bottlenecks, not just web application response time
- 10Integrated performance data(6) Ratings
Cross-analysis of data gathered from all the components of the application
- 9Deployment model flexibility(6) Ratings
Software can be deployed in testing lab, and also in cloud
- 6.1Real time monitoring(5) Ratings
Real time monitoring means monitoring the entire application environment while under load
- 8Automated anomaly detection(5) Ratings
Automated anomaly detection helps detect exception conditions that can be the cause of performance degradation
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(1-7 of 7)Reflecting on features of Micro Focus LoadRunner
- Easy to provide varying and dynamic test data
- Continually easier to test browser apps more realistically
- Simple config to make 'any' scenario
- Ability to manipulate near any input type
- Ability to easily interrogate responses for accuracy
- Working with large request bodies can be cumbersome
- Would love to see a C# version
Perfect solution for on-premises load testing
- Separation of generators, controller, and script builder
- Ease of access of different components
- Better configuration availability for script setup
- Better customer service
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- It can simulate multiple users at the same time and help understand the performance.
- It can generate excellent reports and give insights into application performance.
- It is a fast tool and does not take time to perform its functions.
- The UI of the software can be improved.
- It should also have integration and testing or automation with mobile UI.
- Configuration settings are a bit complex.
I Love HP LoadRunner
HP Load Runner addresses the application performance management issues by spoofing the hits of each user to the web server and it helps to identify the bottleneck of the web application. All the metrics captured or generated by this tool are highly trusted by software engineers worldwide which make this tool more popular and supported.
- Support of multiple protocols like HTTP, RDP, Citrix, SAP, Oracle Database 12c, AJAX Tru Client, SOAP-based calls and others which is why it is used widely in our organization as we are using various applications in an industry for different usage.
- Supporting the mobile agents which means it is not only used for web applications but also for mobile applications.
- Latest version of HP LoadRunner makes the scripting easy by replacing dynamic changes in the script using correlation parameters. This means less coding and we can focus on major issues if needed.
- Controller enhancements by specifying the cloud provider like Digital Ocean. We can provision our load generators with Amazon EC2, DigitalOcean and others.
- Analysis provides a nice HTML report on the test executed with all the necessary metrics. We can simply put more analysis if needed and it will be automatically embedded in an HTML report.
- HP LoadRunner with new patches and releases sometimes makes no longer support older version of various protocols like Citrix, which makes the task time-consuming when using older versions of LoadRunner for some of the cases. So it should support older version as well while upgrading.
- Configuring HP LoadRunner over the firewall involves lots of configuration and may be troublesome. So, there should be a script (power shell script for Windows or shell script for Linux users) to make it easy to use and with less pain.
- I would like to see the RunTime Viewer of Vugen in HPLoadRunner based on the browser I selected in the run-time configuration to make it feel more realistic as a real user.
- Licensing cost is very high when we need to perform a test on application for a specific group of users.
- Whenever it is required to simulate the behavior of a real user on a web application or mobile users then it plays a vital role.
- A deep dive analysis report for each configured metric in the server is observed in the analysis tool and we can put the same in the HTML report if we want that.
- When you are a beginner with no knowledge of a performance testing scenario, HP LoadRunner is a good choice as it provides great support from HP and excellent documentation as well as online forums for helping out.
- If you have a low budget for performance testing for your project and if you know the methodologies of performance testing, you can switch it to some open source tools rather than HP LoadRunner as it is costly for supporting multiple users.
- If you want to run a test of multiple applications at same time, you cannot use controller to do that as controller is used for performing a test of one application at a time.
Load testing with HP Performance Center
- Ease of use and configuration settings.
- Super cool performance test reports with various load parameters.
- Flexible load selection using vuGen and option to steadily ramp up and ramp down the load.
- Minimal coding in C which allows you to parameterize many inputs.
- Load runner integration with HP Performance Center makes life easy for management to review the performance test results.
- Monitoring tools like SiteScope, AppDynamics should be used apart from HP Performance Center. Would be great if the tool can give good monitoring on app and db servers.
- As the load goes high, the cost increases. In the open source world, it's not a bad idea to consider the licensing cost.
Industry giant LoadRunner
- Multi protocol support. LoadRunner supports many protocols unlike any other tools while web/http being their strong suite.
- User friendliness is key. Neat interface. I see the tool has evolved over the years and most custom written code now comes with LR commands built in. Also you do not need to use short keys anymore you have the options on the dashboard to to pick and choose like the steps toolbox. Now you do not need to be an expert to correlate a dynamic parameter. The user guided features enabled in the new versions makes everything simple while saving a lot of time
- Reporting features. The LR Analyzer is the best reporting tool in the market - you have many options to cater client needs. Not every client wants to have the same report.
- StormRunner is the cloud version of loadrunner which supports web/Ajax/Services etc. This is a great tool as this is less expensive compared to the whole LoadRunner suite. The clients who cannot afford to spend a lot of money on getting the LoadRunner commercial suite could spend a little money in getting HP StromRunner and still do most of the things that LoadRunner can perform.
- Diagnostics side is something they could focus on. That is probably the only battle they could possibly lose when it comes to Performance Engineering. Tools like AppDynamics & Dynatrace is far better and most organizations now tend to have at least one of these two tools in their suite in addition to LoadRunner.
- Protocol Ajax Truclient is a great find but it needs improvements. While this adds value it also has a few drawbacks. This protocol does not always work as intended. The Firefox version has evolved but the Chrome and IE version of Truclient needs improvement
- Every tool has its own bugs and LoadRunner is not second to that. With every new version they release we have seen more and more bugs get added and also some of the key features get dropped as well. For example the checkbox "Add a comment in the script for correlations that gets created". This checkbox is no longer in the recording options hence by default all correlated values get commented out in the script thereby causing memory issues due to the size of the scripts. This is one thing that we came across and HP is working on getting this feature added back in a future release.
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- It is fast and easy to create scripts for performance testing using VuGen. The ability to handle dynamic data is much easier to deal with and viewing it through the VuGen is easier than using an open source tool.
- Being able to create your scenario based on ramp up, think time, and other settings is a breeze within the controller.
- The ability to interact more at the client presentation layer. They have introduced a new protocol to help for example to interact with the web browser, but it can't handle the latest technologies in web development.