OpenText™ LoadRunner Family Review

PROS: There are many things that I like about LoadRunner starting from its simplicity, to integration with reporting, graphs and the fact that this tool is time-saving. We are able to cover more during the testing phase so we can provide thorough reporting to management department. Because this product does all the work, we have lot of time to focus on other areas and to work on succeeding our goals. We also collaborate with our developers in order to provide more testing coverage of the code. The product is easy to learn and it can be learn even by those who are not tech-savvy. With Test case management we are able to follow the same set-up and to be more organized.

CONS: What I don’t like is the price and the amount of time that it takes to fix some issues, when the software shows errors so we have to call their support team. We had to wait few days in order to resolve the issue only to realize that we had to restart the server or even refresh the cache on the server.

PROS: Demand is proportional to quality of the product and that’s why I believe that LoadRunner is on the top of the line all these years. The tool itself is user-friendly, highly customizable and versatile.

CONS: I have used many other tools in my career, and I cannot say that I have something to dislike about this product. All I have to say that it’s bit pricy, and I think that they need to improve the managing of the C code because it needs more expertise.

PROS: Performance testing that tests an app’s response time, behavior and whole performance. We use LoadRunner as the most used performance-testing tool and uses minimal hardware space, so all these requirements makes the product to be more efficient. This tool is flexible with the ability to extend tests with failure-checks and makes the tests more intelligent. We love the integration with external measurements, extensive vendor documentations and its help system. It offers any kind of support such as blogs, various fora and many other resources.

CONS: First thing first, they need to think about the cost, because the price may prevent others of using this product. Additionally, it takes lot of time in scripting especially when tests complex cases it can take even few days in order to make a script. Re-usability of the scripts can be complicated too, and this is mostly because of the app changing. The other thing that I don’t like is that this product is not user-friendly, it can be hard to learn how to use it. It can be difficult to use it if you use even different data sources. To test the performances requires skilled and planning resources.