Easy to use features and friendly user interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be slow at times amd same common problema are always prevalent in all versions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wide range of protocols and customization options available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lot of coding needed. UI is not very customer friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There really is not much to dislike regarding LoadRunner.

The only thing to maybe dislike is the licensing structure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The tool cost is on the higher side when compared to other Performance Tools.

Re usability of the scripts can be challenging . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Features, support, multiple protocols, ease of use, languages support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Too much resources in terms of RAM is needed for the tool to work efficiently and avoid crashes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Load Runner is windows oriented, i´d like be able to Mac or Linux. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Usage,architecture and solution to mimic real time user load and running tests Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Need to be more flexible with mobile platform performance testing without much cost overhead Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

versatility, support, ease of use, cloud support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Full features, availability to ramp up virtual users in the cloud or on premise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Scripting language is fairly difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.