# OpenText Professional Performance Engineering Reviews **Vendor:** OpenText **Category:** [Load Testing Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/load-testing-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 40 ## About OpenText Professional Performance Engineering LoadRunner is the industry-standard software solution for application performance and load testing. LoadRunner emulates hundreds or thousands of concurrent virtual users, with minimal hardware, to apply accurate workloads to any application. As it drives load against the system, LoadRunner captures end-user response times for business processes and transactions to determine whether the application can meet the required service-level agreements. Nonintrusive, real-time performance monitors captures real-time performance data from every component of application infrastructure. After the test completes, the LoadRunner analysis engine provides a single view of end-user response time and infrastructure-level performance to identify the most likely causes of performance issues. Learn more at microfocus.com/loadrunner ## OpenText Professional Performance Engineering Reviews ### 1. About Application Development, Test, & Delivery **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Application Development, Test, & Delivery is used to convert business requirements to reality and helps achieve business outcomes. **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** The right methodology - Agile vs Waterfall, needs to be adopted. **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** UFT is used for Test Automation and expedite QA cycle, while LoadRunner is used for Performance Testing the application ### 2. The Lamborghini of Performance Testing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2022 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** * The number of supported protocols for testing, there is literary support for testing all kinds of applications * Easy for beginners to learn, Trueclient Web protocol with recording by point and click on Web makes it fast to create scripts * the types of testing supported, you can even use the product to do API testing instead of using Postman * The product bundle is amazing, by buying the product today it includes SiteScope which is the most powerful monitoring solution and also Service Virtalization (7 services) which you can use to mimic missing test systems. * Thw powerful Controller software which by easy you can create scenarios to mimic real world use case of load towards a system + the ability to monitor and control an ongoing test. * The analytics tool of which you can dive deep into the result and find root causes for bad performance and the great ability to create reports. I highly recommend this product **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** * Sometimea there are small bugs in the VuGen script error where it throws compilation errors first time and then you compile the same and it works. * Some people thinks it hard to learn, but becoming a senior expert in Prrformanxe Testing takes a lot of experience, a single to does not make you an expert. * In some project they want to use Open Source software instead to safe money, but Loadrunner now comes with a community edition which you can use, there can with a purchase of the product be tough for some projects to fully understand the license model and what options to pick. **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** * It has solved all my challenges for performance and non-functional testing since I started using the product in 2003. * It has helped me in over 50 projects to validate the SLA prior to go live in production, has always found issues in each project which by shift left has saves all companies tons of money and potential badwill by customer and employees. ### 3. A very professional tool to leverage the full length of performance testing! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2022 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** The protocol support is pretty good, also love the control and power to set up and execute scenarios to emulate real-world interactions. Once all is done, the analytics are also very good to understand pain points. **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** It may be considered a little hard to use, and quite a lot of settings, and options may create a painful experience even for the senior testers. The price is also something to look at, because there are quite a few competitors in the open-source market. **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Internal training to teammates was easy. Simulating real users' load in environments about to be deployed, it makes it easier to identify pain points before the real users may experience them. Tests can be run pretty straightforwardly, with lots of configurations and very good analytics at the end. ### 4. Best tool for PT **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2022 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** The ease with which we can do the enhancement like correlation and parameterisation, Its very easy as compared to the other tools like Jmeter, Soasta **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** All the features are good, only you need a big screen to debug as there are multiple tabs available **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Professional Performance Engineering:** Yes, go to tool for load testing **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are doing Performance testing of SFDC application where loadrunner is helping us to test the application with user load, with which we are helping developers to optimise their code if we are seeing anything degrade ### 5. Credible Performance testing tool with proven history and community **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2021 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Best suited for large workloads, trusted by testing community for many years **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** The price can be aligned to more competitive for users as well more flexible to new days software scenario and lightweigts. **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Performance testing of Cloud and on promise applications having very aggressive TPS(Transaction Per Second) SLA. With leveraging this tool for performance testing, we can gauge and refactor our application to meet the SLA. ### 6. A mature and quite stable tool having a lot of capabilities **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ankita S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Lots of protocols support, easy to use, easy reporting , perfect graphical representation with the Analysis feature, user interface is much better than similar tools. **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Expensive as compared to other tools in the market, TruClient protocol - browsers needs to improve (does not work as intended always) **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use MF LoadRunner for all the end to end testing & optimization of various projects in the organization & it definitely has helped us out in getting to know how the systems are going to respond under load or stress situations. ### 7. Performance testing tool with great breadth of support and credibility. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Sporting Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Good use of human time. No peer tool which supports SQL Server, Oracle,Java, Web etc. Identify bottlenecks of hardware, software, infrastructure, memory etc using good analysis window for response time and throughput. Separation of script, generator, controller and agents. Set ramp up and ramp down strategy as needed.Agent can do things like IP spoofing to make look like load is coming from diff machines. Checkpoints can be image or text. Rendezvous points instruct users to wait during test execution for other users in order to perform the tasks simultaneously. Love that! **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Tool is not open source and expensive. Also Vuser scripts saved in C which is case sensitive. You need to be really cognizant about co-relations planned to be used. Protocol advisor could have been more helpful. Also make sure caching is disabled while running tests. Configuration is little tough to figure out. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Professional Performance Engineering:** Nice tool to conduct performance testing and benchmark your other tools. Although learning curve is not steep but the pricing curve is. As said need to be aware of relations while using record playback feature. Also regularly use rendezvous and think statements. Also make sure to add regular comments in code in order for maintainability. Correlation is capture output from prv step and use it as input. **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Testing performance of web applications and RESTAPIs. Great support as said earlier. Fantastic ways to parameterize your inputs and see analysis of response time distribution. VuGen is UI independent and focuses on HTTP requests only. Capability to add user data points and regenerate code. Controller helps to add think time, delays etc. Most favorite part is load simulated from other machines, throttling etc Also the part where you can simulate browser like environment by adding proxies and cookies is fantastic in my opinion. Analysis engine shows response time distribution. It can also be run on public cloud infrastructures.Tightly coupled with HP-ALM and can also import scripts from other tools like Jmeter. ### 8. Working on LoadRunner since 4 years **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Capital Markets | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** The ability to manage all the phases of performance testing and ease to maintain scripts in loadrunner and all types of applications support is available in loadrunner. The Analysis provided by loadrunner post completion of execution is the best and very much in detailed which helps resolve performance issues and bottleneck easily. The ability to convert fiddler file into loadrunner is one of the best feature implemented in loadrunner. **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** sometimes loadrunner misses few request during recording a script which might leads to the script failure. Sometimes we faced issues while analyzing the results in loadrunner which leads to complete failure of test which is a more time consuming task. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Professional Performance Engineering:** Script enhancements facility should be similar to Loadrunner in other performance testing tools. **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Doing performance testing with loadrunner we solved SFDC based application. We recommended other teams too to use loadrunner for SFDC and othe cloud based applications. ### 9. Loadrunner Performance Testing & Engineering **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** With various protocol bundles the LoadRunner can cover wide variety of application suits in an enterprise organization for performance testing.Scripts are easy to maintain with Performance Center integration. With LoadRunner thousands of virtual user can be simulated with consistent and repeatable load on the system. **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** The user interface can be improved.Should have an option to see test results live for a particular user than overall response time of the load test. Include integration capabilities with other APM tools like Dynatrace and AppDynamics. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Professional Performance Engineering:** I believe MicroFocus LoadRunner is the best commercial industry standard load testing tool available in the market. Nobody can beat LoadRunner so far. **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to understand the performance and capacity requirements for a microservice in cloud foundry. Thus reducing the number of instances and memory resulting in cost saving for the company. ### 10. Fascinating program **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jose F. | Application tester, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Simple to utilize/learn interface. Numerous choices accessible to make the custom test contents and test situations. Wide assortment of conventions that covers dominant part of candidates types. All and every one of the a generally amazing device that meets all execution testing needs. **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** I can't think about any of the drawbacks. Be that as it may, if need to call attention to, I would state that test results should indicate data at each layer of engineering like reaction times at application, web, middleware, DB layer and so on **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping clients to get to the execution of uses before they are sent to generation. Ensure application/administrations are dependable and can withstand creation traffic and react inside characterized understandings. ### 11. Loadrunner is best performance tool speacially 12.6 which supports cloud technology **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Tool works for all types of application like Web, SAP, DBMS, AJAX, Mail server etc. and the reporting is best in the market. Although there are freeware tools like Jmeter but all those needs lots of customisation **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Performance center hangs often and need to close and start freshly, its not a system issue. Some are known bug in older version **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Professional Performance Engineering:** Its best in the industry **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Doing performance testing of any application. Able to simulate proper load like a real world with help of runtime and schedular settings of the Vugen ### 12. Great tool but very bulky and incomplete **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Conversion to monitoring very useful with very intuitive UI. Easy to monitor and implement tests across different machines. Also very easy to setup new machines and add to monitoring. Easy to configure changes to schedule or SLA to existing monitoring. Easy to customize notifications based on location, user, transaction, or other filters, **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Support can be lacking and unresponsive not an open schedule. In constant need of upgrades/patching. Support for old versions is lacking and constantly pushed in different directions when the tool is not meeting the needs. The inability to run custom code from a jar file for monitoring items not specific to a web based protocol and focused on for example oracle monitoring needs. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Professional Performance Engineering:** Make sure this is compatible with your apps before considering bringing on the tool. **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitoring Issues Global networking issues Maintenance of remote machines in other countries Problems with networks in other countries using performance reporting from load runner we are able to justify increased bandwidth in other countries. After implementing those changes we are able to prove the need was actually needed and improvement of the application in a specific location. Allowed easy production support and root cause analysis including error logs from the system in the email notifications. Also the ability to drill down on an alert or bad performance from specific transactions or database queries in the system narrow down areas of improvement or company focus on a certain area to improve and work with the team to resolve. ### 13. Great software for test any architecture. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joss C. | Performance Test Lead, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** The ability to have multiple protocols available to test them before buying a specofoc license. The flexibility these protocols offer is amazing, I was able to test different technologies without issues (Angular 7, jsp) from the UI or backend perspective (HTTP, Wevservices, JSON, WSDL, etc). **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** The newer interface 12.xx are little bit bussy but still ok. **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have encontred several bottlenecks when we migrated from a Legacy system to the cloud, LoadRunner was able to identify the bottlenecks and provide us valuabke informatiin on what elements were having problems and we were able to adjust the required configuration and have a successfully implementation. ### 14. Loadrunner - AbhijeetBroader **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhijeet K. | Senior Manager - Technology, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Broader support and stability of product **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Changes into product as per market trends and new technologies are often delayed **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Load, stress and endurance testing for complex foreign exchange platform for biggest bank in the world. Because of LR we are able to find performance defects upfront keeping fixing cost low and insure highest customer satisfaction. ### 15. Industry leading load testing tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Easy to use/learn interface. Many options available to create the custom test scripts and test scenarios. Wide variety of protocols that covers majority of applicants types. All and all a very good tool that meets all performance testing needs. **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** I can’t think of any of the down sides. But if have to point out, I would say that test results should show info at each layer of architecture like response times at app, web, middleware, DB layer etc **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping customers to access the performance of applications before they are deployed to production. Make sure application/services are reliable and can withstand production traffic and respond within defined agreements. ### 16. Loadrunner - for a better app performance **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** i like the plugins and extensibility like vugen integration and the loadtesting automation **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** i dont like the way its heavy weighted and somehow not straightforward installation **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Trying to perform load testing for micro services ### 17. Loadrunner is awesome! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** The user interface is amazingly intuitive and easy to learn. Great report data tools for the dashboard. **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** The price is on the high end of the load testing tool spectrum. It is however a very high quality tool, so I guess with this product, you get what you pay for. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Professional Performance Engineering:** Download a free sample and see for yourself just how easy this tool is to use. **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Load testing our in house applications ### 18. Performance Engineer with 6 Years of expertise in end to end Performance Testinglifecycle **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Renewables & Environment | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Support of wide range of Protocols and Applications , which covers support to all the latest technologies in industry **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** While using Controller ther is no option to copy runtime settings from one script to other While assigning Load Generators machine in a scenario..if a user has large number of scripts in scenario LG distribution is a cumbersome job **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Recently I implimented Javascript in load runner using javavuser protocol to upload image to S3 bucket on AWS. using S3 Client builder utility ### 19. Best loadtesting tool so far **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Loadrunner is by far the most effective and versatile load testing tool. Supports various protocols. Very strong analysis and customizeable reporting . **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** The licensing cost is something that makes customers not to choose Loadrunner and move to open source tool **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Response time measurement. Application client side metrices ### 20. LoadRunner **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Indrajit S. | Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Parrellel load testing support by the tool. **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** The amount of licensing as per the growing testing industry it should give us the flexibility to buy. **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** User load of the application developed and stability while being in load ### 21. Excellent Load Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Easy to use features and friendly user interface **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** It can be slow at times amd same common problema are always prevalent in all versions **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Observing performance metrics before and after tuning ### 22. Best load testing tool available in market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Wide range of protocols and customization options available **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Lot of coding needed. UI is not very customer friendly **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Improving the performance of the application. Tool has been useful in identifying the issues at earlier stages. ### 23. LoadRunner great for performance and load testing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arno S. | Manager, software; scrum master, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2018 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** LoadRunner is a wonderful and powerful tool with which the workload of various business processes can be emulated to determine expectations. It provides the ability to determine how a system will perform before going live. Once the bottlenecks are identified, they can be addressed. Also, when expectations are known, then they can be managed for when real users are on the system **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** There really is not much to dislike regarding LoadRunner. The only thing to maybe dislike is the licensing structure. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Professional Performance Engineering:** If you are looking to determine how a system will work before going live, then LoadRunner is the tool to use **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** This is a powerful tool with which you can determine where bottlenecks are and be able to address them accordingly in order to provide expectations. It provides the ability to determine how a system will perform before going live. ### 24. Excellent Performance Testing Tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anagha M. | Test Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2017 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** The multiple protocols that it supports and the ease with which Test scripts can be recorded, Tests run and Results analyzed for concurrent users . Easy integration with HP suite of tools. **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** The tool cost is on the higher side when compared to other Performance Tools. Re usability of the scripts can be challenging . **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Professional Performance Engineering:** The best tool for Performance Testing. Easy to learn , flexible and reliable. Supports all protocols . Handles all software process from Project Requirements to Test Reports all in an organized manner. **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Have carried out numerous Performance Tests with Load Runner 11 and 12 . Created numerous Test Scripts in different Protocols to do Performance Tests. Created Numerous Test Scenarios and have conducted multiple tests with them. Has conducted Load , Stress , Volume and Endurance Tests. has helped to log defects, manage project and organize different projects. ### 25. Best Load testing tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pruthvi M. | Senior Performance Engineer, Human Resources, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2018 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Features, support, multiple protocols, ease of use, languages support **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Too much resources in terms of RAM is needed for the tool to work efficiently and avoid crashes **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** End User experience can be improved by using loadrunner to testwebsites. Bottlenecks can be identified through various tests run using loadrunner ### 26. Robust performance testing tool for almost any kind of application. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jose Adan O. | DevOps Ambassador, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2018 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Load Runner has been a Gartner's leader in performance testing tools for some years. I like how flexible Load Runner is developing testing scenarios. **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Load Runner is windows oriented, i´d like be able to Mac or Linux. **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Preparing Load Testing scenarios very fast. ### 27. Loadunner usage experience **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2018 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Usage,architecture and solution to mimic real time user load and running tests **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Need to be more flexible with mobile platform performance testing without much cost overhead **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Resolving and identifying performance issues before application are rolled out for production usage ### 28. The workhorse of performance testing tools **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2017 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** versatility, support, ease of use, cloud support **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Extremely expensive, upgrades are a nightmare, complicated installation procedure. No built in monitoring solution. Everything has to be purchased and implemented separately leading to a lot of delays and additional costs. Support, though good is extremely expensive especially if you need 24 x 7 support. Administrators must be experts, else installation, upgrades and regular maintenance will be a very painful task. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Professional Performance Engineering:** Though there are several tools available in the market for load / performance testing, LoadRunner has established a niche market for itself thanks to the trust that customers have established with the sort of detailed that it has to offer. LoadRunner also is able to integrate with other HP Tools (SiteScope, ALM, Performance Center to name a few) as well as non-HP tools such as DynaTrace (albeit with a little bit of coding experience)! LoadRunner also has Cloud support with HP Helion and Amazon AWS. For people who do not want to spend a lot on LoadRunner, there is a community edition that is available for free. Users can also look at StormRunner which is similar, but not as versatile as LoadRunner is for first time use since the cost is less than a 10th of what LoadRunner is! **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** By implementing HP LoadRunner and by including performance testing as part of the sdlc, we are able to find potential issues before they occur. By being able to use cloud hosted load generators, we are also able to get a feel of how external users tend to experience the product ### 29. Best load testing ever seen, easy to use and most Accurate real user emulation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arjun B. | Technical Consultant - QA, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2016 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Performance testing is a type of non-functional testing activity that is carried out to determine an application’s response time, behavior and overall performance. LoadRunner is one of the most widely used performance-testing tools since it uses minimal hardware resources and is extremely efficient. Flexible and versatile scripting engine to extend tests with success-failure checks, thus making testing more intelligent. Ramping of many concurrent users to make the most representative testing possible. Integration of external measurements in test scenario's. Extensive vendor documentation and help system included. Extensive experience and support on various fora, blogs and many other support resources. Good availability of expertise in the form of programmers and hardcore testers. **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** 1) Cost is the major factor that should be considered by HP because it prevents many users from using this product. Despite many advantages of Loadrunner, other open source alternate solutions like Neoload are mostly used. 2) It takes lots time in scripting, if the test cases are very complex, it can take even days to make one script. Re-usability of these complex scripts also becomes a complex job, mostly when the application build are changing frequently. The tool always demands a script modification or re-scripting, in case of changes in application build. 3) Complexity. LoadRunner is not simple to learn by installing it and "doing it". Especially when using different data sources to do cross measurements of system performance. Performance testing with a tool like this requires planning and skilled resources. Fortunately these are easily acquired these days. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Professional Performance Engineering:** LoadRunner, when used judiciously can give you an accurate picture of end-to-end system/application performance. When used in the development cycle, all the performance bottlenecks can be easily identified and eliminated. **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** LoadRunner's scripting engine is very flexible and the fact that it's able to quickly and easily simulate hundreds of concurrent users makes it the performance testing tool of choice for years running. ### 30. LoadRunner and Performance Center supports the most technologies and protocols **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael C. | Senior Director of Software Engineering, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2016 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Full features, availability to ramp up virtual users in the cloud or on premise. **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Scripting language is fairly difficult. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Professional Performance Engineering:** Get a experienced LoadRunner performance engineer. **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Performance and load testing. Increase application performance by up to 600% on some web projects. ### 31. LoadRunner solved our need for Automation and simplified our testing and saved time. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2016 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** I like the simplicity of using the tool, the integration with reporting, graphs and the overall time it saves during testing phases. LoadRunner has not only helped the team be more accurate, complete and precise with testing we can cover more during our testing phase and provide detailed reporting to upper management on our testing status. Using LoadRunner allows us to focus on other areas of the project with the time saved during testing. Working with our developers also helps us to provide more testing coverage of the code using LoadRunner. LoadRunner has been very ease to learn and even our most beginner/junior level tester can learn the product and apply it to their testing tasks. Test case management is also a GREAT help, it helps us all to be more organized and we all follow the same setup and unlike sing word/ms office we all have the same layout. **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** I don't like the pricing and the amount of time it takes sometimes to resolve issues when the product encounters errors and we need to get HP involved for support. There have been times where we had to wait days to get an issue resolved only to realize all we had to do was restart the server or refresh the cache on the HP server. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Professional Performance Engineering:** Learn the basics and provide several user sessions to get your team(s) knowledgeable of the tool and to expose all the benefits of using the tool and how important it can be in the project plan/life cycle. It's also great to point out the time it can save with automation testing verses manual testing, which the saved time can be utilized in other areas of the project. **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving a timing issue with our testing tasks by using LoadRunner. The project teams were always giving us the smallest amount of time to get our testing done but there were large amounts of testing that needed to be done. Using LoadRunner, we have cut down our testing time to half of the time it took manually and can now be more accurate and complete with our testing efforts. The time we are saving is used in other areas of the project mainly getting the product to our consumers quicker and allowing them to do more UAT testing before roll-out. LoadRunner is also useful in test case management, design and documentation. This tools helps us to all be consistent and follow the same guidelines. Organization on the project has improved greatly. ### 32. HP Loadrunner review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tony T. | Master Test Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2016 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** It is a very powerful scripting tool to best record user actions programmatically with a flexible and versatile scripting engine to extend tests with success-failure checks, thus making testing more intelligent. **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Complexity. LoadRunner is not simple to learn by installing it and "doing it". Especially when using different data sources to do cross measurements of system performance. Performance testing with a tool like this requires planning and skilled resources. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Professional Performance Engineering:** HP offers extensive documentation and support services to help its customer base. **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Performance testing of our system is a customer requirement that could not be done without the use of a robust testing tool. ### 33. The best in Performance Testing and Load Testing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Delfin D. | QA Manager, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2015 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Best perfomance testing tool. Test results generated by the tool are really awesome Best in class test run features. A truly professional performance tester can produce a lot of benefit out of it. Test case design and debugging is very easy. The coolest feature in the tool is that Performance tester can adjust the applied load on the go. In many of the other industry leading tools, we have set those parameters prior to the test and it cant be changed at any point in time. **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** The programming language is not that very popular. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Professional Performance Engineering:** If you are looking for perfect performance testing tool, Load Runner is the best choice. This brings value for money for organizations. **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a successful SaaS organization, we had a lot of customers using our system. It was very critical to make sure the performance of the system is intact after every releases. ### 34. Simplified my testing experience with extreme time saving qualities **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2016 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Excellent analysis interface and monitoring aspect of LoadRunner. Have tried this with a varied variety of protocol, working with each of them was such an ease. Modification to the existing script has been made very easy and user friendly. **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Debugging and issues sometimes may turn out to be little tedious job. Could have been more user friendly in this phase. **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Performance profiling and the most appropriate time estimations. ### 35. Credible Performance Testing Tool **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Parinita I. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2016 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** It supports many technologies, tools and protocols. If you are already using QTP for automation of test scenarios then Load runner is the best tool to use for performance testing, which empowers you to perform end to end testing process. **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Scripting should be simpler. Quite expensive. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Professional Performance Engineering:** If you want to achieve automation in less time and if you have budget then you can go for it. **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped to identify performance issues in test environment before the software product release. ### 36. Easy Load testing, but a bit overpriced **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2016 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Easy to run load test and generate reporting. **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Uses C language as its DSL, it is a bit dated. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Professional Performance Engineering:** Use it if you use other HP products such as HP ALM. **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stress test applications. ### 37. My 8 years association with HP Loadrunner **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raja Shekar B. | Professional: Product Test, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2015 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** I believe demand is always directly proportional to quality of the product which is why I believe Loadrunner has been on top of the line thorough these many years of it's journey. HP Loadrunner is very user friendly, flexible and highly customizable. **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** I cannot specifically point out to a single or specific dislike. I have used many open source and paid tools through my career. Apart from the fact that cost of licensing is one big goal to choose LR; I find managing the C code for huge application (in terms of many tricky business cases) needs more expertise in coding and handling the tool. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Professional Performance Engineering:** If you need comfort and speed in achieving the automation goal with precision and have budget then I would recommend HP Loadrunner. **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used LR for a variety of product domains including E-Learning, E-Commerce etc. Most of the scenarios demands high throughout and variety of complex logic to automate and Loadrunner always played key role in getting this done. As I mentioned the major challenge is using 'C' coding for HTTP/HTML protocol which turn tricky and needs expertise to handle the complex scenarios well without crashing or consuming more Loadrunner infrastructure. ### 38. LoadRunner_Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vikash J. | Techinical Consultant, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2016 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** LoadRunner tool is very efficient and effective software validation. **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Nothing much, improvisation needed on the UI. Should have an application for Mobile Development testing. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Professional Performance Engineering:** Keep up the good work! **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Testing, Software validation, Healthacare products performance review. ### 39. The Industry Standard for Performance and Load Testing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark D. | Owner, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2015 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Separation between the various components, VUGen, Controller and Analysis. Saving of text-based artefacts to the file system, so that you can perform searches and automate the analysis of script and scenario quality using other tools. Integrated monitoring. Sophisticated and usable Analysis tool. **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Inability (as yet) to record/decode Kerberos SOA traffic encrypted in fat-client applications. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Professional Performance Engineering:** It's not cheap, so it's only for the big players at the moment, but it's probably the one with most industry penetration and breadth of target technologies. **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pre-production performance profiling and architecture scaling. ### 40. LoadRunner Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 07, 2015 **What do you like best about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** LoadRunner simulates user activity by generating messages between application components rather than simulating interactions with the user interface such as keypresses or mouse movements. **What do you dislike about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering?** Some times it works bit slow and I find bit complex **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Professional Performance Engineering:** WebLOAD **What problems is OpenText Professional Performance Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Load Generator generates the load against the application by following scripts ## OpenText Professional Performance Engineering Discussions - [What is Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-micro-focus-loadrunner-professional-used-for) - [Which integrations does LoadRunner support?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-integrations-does-loadrunner-support) - [Which is better JMeter vs LoadRunner?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-is-better-jmeter-vs-loadrunner) - [How much does LoadRunner cost?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-much-does-loadrunner-cost) - [What is Micro Focus Performance Center?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-micro-focus-performance-center) - [View OpenText Professional Performance Engineering pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/opentext-professional-performance-engineering/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-12+00%3A02%3A50+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=9aaf1bb4-ce25-4dfa-b265-b6d495906ec1&secure%5Btoken%5D=742a1018513e492eb066c709ab7af741be8a172175ed7da508c6068510ac3cf2&format=llm_user) ## OpenText Professional Performance Engineering Features **Functionality** - Stress Testing - Extreme Cases - Test Variety **Functionality ** - Test Feedback - Test History - Customization - Test Variety **Agentic AI - Software Testing** - Autonomous Task Execution - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Reporting** - Reporting **Automation** - Organization - Reliability - Thoroughness **Agentic AI - Automation Testing** - Autonomous Task Execution - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance ## Top OpenText Professional Performance Engineering Alternatives - [Apache JMeter](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-jmeter/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (151 reviews) - [Tricentis Neoload](https://www.g2.com/products/tricentis-tricentis-neoload/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (32 reviews) - [BlazeMeter Continuous Testing Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/blazemeter-continuous-testing-platform/reviews) - 4.0/5.0 (24 reviews)