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OpenText Professional Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Professional) pros and cons

Vendor: OpenText
4.2 out of 5
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PROS

OpenText Professional Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Professional) offers extensive protocol support, enabling testing across various technologies.
The comprehensive results analysis feature helps save time and optimize system performance.
The scalability and ability to handle large workloads make it suitable for high-demand testing environments.
Effective integration with other testing and monitoring solutions enhances overall performance testing capabilities.
Setting up and configuring OpenText Professional Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Professional) is straightforward, contributing to ease of use.

CONS

OpenText Professional Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Professional) integration with other tools like SiteScope presents challenges despite being within the same product family.
Licensing and pricing are concerns, with many users finding it expensive compared to other available resources.
Technical support is rated poorly, with slow response times and a need for improvement in assistance quality.
High resource utilization is observed, with the tool being heavy and sometimes causing performance issues during testing.
There are challenges with features like TruClient protocol and its complexity in use, impacting user satisfaction.
 

OpenText Professional Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Professional) Pros review quotes

it_user94998 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Test Lead at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Jun 13, 2017
The capabilities and flexibility of the Controller, the ability to monitor the systems under test, and the comprehensive results Analysis which saves a great deal of time.
it_user567588 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Quality Assurance at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 8, 2016
Enables us to test most of the products and projects that we have across all the different technologies, without having to look at other tools.
it_user739536 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal consultant at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Sep 19, 2017
The ability to do multithreading. That's available in any performance testing tool, but the number of protocols that this particular tool supports has been very good.
Learn what your peers think about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Professional). Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: January 2026.
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VC
Lead Solution Architect at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
Sep 19, 2017
The number of protocols that it supports, and especially, for example, when it talks about SAP GUI-based performance testing.
DP
Technical Leader at Valtech
Mar 10, 2019
LoadRunner is a very systematic tool for anyone to use. Even someone who is actually a first time user of LoadRunner can actually get a lot of benefit out of the tool.
RA
Director at Traydaht ltd
Apr 12, 2019
It provides clients with an understanding of application and system performance.
QAmgr9845 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 15, 2019
Very useful for finding out how the system responds to load, stress, and normal situations, as well as benchmarking with other industry competitors. It also improved our response time, memory delegation, and CPU delegation. In addition, we used LoadRunner to optimize our database and website.
Aphiwat Leetavorn. - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Marco Technology
Sep 11, 2019
The Analysis feature makes it easy to analyze cross-data and we can pin to the focus period.
it_user825579 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Sep 27, 2019
The initial setup and installation of the software were very easy and straightforward.
RM
Senior Consultant at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Sep 29, 2019
The solution is quite stable.
 

OpenText Professional Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Professional) Cons review quotes

it_user94998 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Test Lead at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Jun 13, 2017
More guidance on the use of the Tru Client protocol which is used for Web interfaces.
it_user567588 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Quality Assurance at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 8, 2016
We still have some issues with integration with things like SiteScope which, obviously, being another HPE product should be very straightforward, but there are always issues around that.
it_user739536 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal consultant at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Sep 19, 2017
If the support of the protocols was the same throughout the other protocols and it was there evenly, then I would rate the product higher.
Learn what your peers think about OpenText Professional Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Professional). Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: January 2026.
881,082 professionals have used our research since 2012.
VC
Lead Solution Architect at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
Sep 19, 2017
You should be able to use LoadRunner as a single platform. You should be able to have browser based access. You should be able to run enterprise tests.
DP
Technical Leader at Valtech
Mar 10, 2019
If they can make LoadRunner more comprehensive, it would really help.
RA
Director at Traydaht ltd
Apr 12, 2019
Support for Microsoft Dynamics needs improvement.
QAmgr9845 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 15, 2019
There is room for improvement of the pilot processing, the dump analysis, and forwarding results based on the dump analysis. We have a generator, root controller, different agents, and an analyzer, so all of these are very important when it comes to LoadRunner.
Aphiwat Leetavorn. - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Marco Technology
Sep 11, 2019
The price of this solution should be cheaper.
it_user825579 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Sep 27, 2019
Sometimes we are not be able to click on some of the buttons due to the screen mismatching and compatibility issues.
RM
Senior Consultant at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Sep 29, 2019
I guess scalability becomes a problem when you use things like TruClients.

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