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Dotcom-Monitor LoadView Stress Testing vs OpenText Professional Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Professional) comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Dotcom-Monitor LoadView Str...
Ranking in Load Testing Tools
19th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
OpenText Professional Perfo...
Ranking in Load Testing Tools
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
82
Ranking in other categories
Performance Testing Tools (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Load Testing Tools category, the mindshare of Dotcom-Monitor LoadView Stress Testing is 1.6%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Professional Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Professional) is 15.3%, up from 13.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Load Testing Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
OpenText Professional Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Professional)15.3%
Dotcom-Monitor LoadView Stress Testing1.6%
Other83.1%
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Featured Reviews

reviewer1631949 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect ICT at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees
User-friendly, cheap, and quick to set up
It's actually quite easy to set it up. You can change your upgrade plan at any time. The pricing is reasonable. The support was also very good. They are great at helping you set it up. Overall, it's user-friendly. I like that you can also use different servers, which I used in Europe or in different contexts. The reporting is okay. I can get notifications via email, which is nice. Everything is immediate and in real-time.
HelenSague - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Performance Testing Specialist at Canadian Pacific Railway
A sophisticated tool that supports many languages and works with all kinds of applications
I do not have any big challenges with LoadRunner. I only have some issues with load generators. It is a very common issue, and I hope it will be resolved in the latest release. For example, when we start to run our tests, users get the message that the load generator exceeded 80% of the CPU utilization. Even when the number of users is less, we get these messages. I am trying to resolve it, but it is not going. It is annoying. It is not a failure, but I hope that it will be resolved. IBM WebSphere MQ testing can be a bit challenging. It can handle that, but I hope that they will build more and more capabilities. We do a huge amount of testing for messaging. Just like aviation, the railway industry is based on messaging. There is messaging to build trains and messaging to create some bills. There are many train movements. Everything involves messaging. I wish that it will be developed more for IBM WebSphere testing. Monitoring is okay, but for testing, I currently have to create Java users. I have to load a lot of libraries from IBM WebSphere and so on.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"LoadView is a flexible solution, which protects your investments."
"LoadView is a perfect cloud-based load testing tool."
"The initial setup is easy, and if you need more help, they are there to assist."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is a stable solution; we did not have any issues with the stability or the performance of this solution."
"It's helped my organization to identify performance problems in the test environment before they occur in production."
"I think it's been the backbone of performance testing for 20+ years and must be given credit for helping establish the discipline."
"LoadRunner is easier to use and has support for better protocols."
"LoadRunner helped identify bottlenecks during the testing phase in several instances especially before launch of major projects."
"The most important feature for us is that it supports a lot of protocols because we support all of them, including HTTP, FTP, mainframe, and others."
"It is one of the best performance testing tools available."
"LoadRunner is a very sophisticated tool, and I can use many languages. For example, I can use Java. I can use C++. I can test the Internet of Things, FTP, mail, and Active Directory. It is very useful."
 

Cons

"A lot of time you start the stress testing, and you sign the log in again, and I want to get rid of that. It's just not clear to me how to do it yet."
"If I do the web application test, I want to bypass a login part."
"I would like them to lower the licensing cost and provide better support."
"LoadRunner Professional is an expensive product."
"This is an expensive solution and perhaps they could change their modeling to improve that."
"The solution needs to reduce its pricing. Right now, it's quite expensive."
"The infrastructure support can be improved because there are a lot of limitations with the hardware that you can use."
"Pricing is the only thing which make people think many times before purchasing this product."
"LoadRunner Professional's parameter data could be improved."
"I would rate the technical support a one out of five. The technical support is very bad."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"You can buy plans that range from free to $500 a month."
"This is not a cheap product."
"The cost depends greatly on the needs of the testing engagement."
"For licensing, we pay a lot for it. But the incentive is the support we get with it, that we pay once, and we are set."
"The fee for LoadRunner Professional is very high - about US$500 per user."
"The pricing model, especially when involving partners, could use some improvement."
"It is a high-cost investment, particularly for companies with small budgets or limited testing needs."
"The solution's pricing is expensive."
"The licensing is on a yearly basis and is relatively expensive."
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Comparison Review

it_user104961 - PeerSpot reviewer
Penetration and Neoload Tester at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Apr 13, 2014
LoadRunner vs NeoLoad
The six phases of an IT project Enthusiasm Disillusionment Panic Search for the guilty Punishment of the innocent (the performance tester) Praise and rewards for the incompetent non-participants This article has been put together as part of an evaluation of the performance test tools NeoLoad and…
 

Top Industries

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Outsourcing Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Construction Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

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Company SizeCount
Small Business17
Midsize Enterprise14
Large Enterprise67
 

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What needs improvement with Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional?
I have mentioned many advantages about this product, but to discuss disadvantages or areas that could be improved, I would need to consult with my engineers who are working on it. So far I have not...
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I work only with the performance testing tools and not with OpenText Professional Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Professional) for mobile and web applications. With performance testing, I am t...
 

Also Known As

LoadView Stress Testing
Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional, Micro Focus LoadRunner, HPE LoadRunner, LoadRunner
 

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Sample Customers

Citrix, Aflac, Xerox, American InterContinental University, UMASS, ITT Technical Institute, Roanoke College
JetBlue, GOME, Australian Red Cross Blood Service, RMIT University, Virgin Media
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