We performed a comparison between Apache JMeter, OpenText LoadRunner Professional, and ReadyAPI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, OpenText, Tricentis and others in Performance Testing Tools."The ease of use is the solution's most valuable feature. Also, the ability to easily create test cases is also very good. It's easy to just ramp up on the solution."
"The metrics part of it and the ability to write your custom code to do some specific tests in the performance testing space are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature of Apache JMeter is its popularity. It is the best open-source tool with all the features needed."
"It is very quick and user-friendly."
"We find the load testing feature valuable."
"The thread groups, samplers, and listeners, which are all determined by the script's requirements, are the most valuable features of this solution."
"User-friendly and open source."
"We really appreciate that the solution comes with a live community, which continuously provided plugins and support protocols."
"There are various languages that they allow those programs to be written in, whether you want to use Java or something else."
"I like the user interface. I like the way we can divide our scenarios and can tune them. The integration with the quality center is great. These features are really good."
"The most valuable features of Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional are the separate module for scripting, execution analysis, and integration with a lot of new things pipeline areas. They keep updating their releases. Recently, they have released different versions, such as the professional and enterprise. They're coming up with new features which are good."
"The most useful aspect of the solution is that it provides agents in different geographic locations."
"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 has features for recording. The best feature with Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is that there is very little bottleneck or overhead issues. With LoadRunner, you can spawn 2000 contributions for one machine."
"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."
"The stability of Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is very high. It is the leading tool for stability."
"The most valuable feature is being able to run each version for test suites."
"The two most valuable features we use are the functional test and the security test."
"The most valuable features of ReadyAPI are the scripting tools and the connectivity to external data sources, such as Excel and PDF files. There are plenty of useful features that are useful, such as automating flexibility and usability. Overall, the solution is easy to use."
"It's easy to implement."
"This solution is very intuitive. Once you finish your first few testing cases, you can change several parameters and create lots of testing cases. You could use the same testing cases for different purposes such as automation, performance and screen testing."
"ReadyAPI's best features are that it's user-friendly and its behavior-driven development is flexible."
"When you are working in sprints, you need to have continuous feedback. ReadyAPI definitely helps in automating very fast and rapidly. We have less coding, and we can more easily define our assertions. We don't use it for full-blown performance testing, but normally if you are doing your functional testing, it gives you the request and response time. Anybody who is doing functional testing can see what the request and response times are and raise a flag based upon their business affiliates, that is, whether it is meeting their affiliates. You can identify this during functional testing."
"For anyone who does not have experience with automation, ReadyAPI provides a sense of comfort, especially for testers who find it hard to go directly into coding."
"The solution is not user-friendly, there is no framework for autocorrelation or parameterization."
"We would like more documentation to be provided for the advanced level features that are available in this solution, in order to improve development."
"Both scalability and stability could be improved in Apache JMeter."
"Considering the kinds of tests we are performing here, where we launch several tests at the same time as a batch request, JMeter is not the best tool for the job. Those kinds of things could be done easily with other tools, like T6."
"We would like some reporting and analysis tools to be added to this solution."
"In this tool, automation in general is almost non-existent. Everything is done manually."
"The tool needs to have a better Graphical User Interface. Many of the solution's features are difficult to understand due to the complex user interface and user experience. The product needs to add plugins. It should also work on the integration with external partners like IDE and API gateways."
"The reports in Apache JMeter could improve."
"More guidance on the use of the Tru Client protocol which is used for Web interfaces."
"I would like them to lower the licensing cost and provide better support."
"The price of this solution should be cheaper."
"The solution is very costly. The cost is very high, especially considering a lot of other resources are available now and they are less expensive. For a small organization, it is very difficult to sustain the costs involved in having the solution or the related fees"
"Licensing costs could be reduced."
"The solution needs to reduce its pricing. Right now, it's quite expensive."
"The flexibility could be improved."
"The tool should consider releasing a SaaS version since it makes more sense nowadays."
"ReadyAPI could improve by adding a conversion tool from one file type to another. Import support for multiple file types would be beneficial."
"Sometimes, if I changed something in ReadyAPI, it would not quickly pick up the change. It used to give me the same error repeatedly, and when I closed the application completely and restarted it, it would pick up that change."
"The Property Transfer capability could be more user friendly because it is a bit difficult to understand."
"The content on ReadyAPI in SmartBear Academy is outdated."
"ReadyAPI's customer support isn't that great, particularly their response time."
"It is challenging doing upgrades and patches because sometimes the environmental variables or suits in the projects get erased."
"There is a lot of room for improvement, mainly from the point of view of integrating ReadyAPI into the CI pipelines, and also the scripting aspect into Bitbucket."
"Performance and memory management both need to be improved because other solutions use less memory for the same amount of data."
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