We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and OpenText LoadRunner Professional based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Tools."I like the recording feature."
"Usually when we deploy the application, there is a process for ethical hacking. The main benefit is that, the ethical hacking is almost clean, every time. So it's less cost, less effort, less time to production."
"The most valuable feature of HCL AppScan is scanning QR codes."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution...The initial setup or installation of HCL AppScan is easy."
"This is a stable solution."
"The UI was very intuitive."
"Compared to other tools only AppScan supports special language."
"The static scans are good, and the SaaS as well."
"There are various languages that they allow those programs to be written in, whether you want to use Java or something else."
"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 most valuable feature is the ability to create performance test cases quickly and then execute them. It provides a lot of powerful features to do that very efficiently and effectively."
"What we like the most is that it integrates with UC."
"The most valuable feature depends on what we're doing at the time. In the past, the greatest feature was the ability to record and play back to produce a script. Another great feature is that we can monitor the system. They also support many protocols to perform load testing."
"It is an advanced tool with multiple options available for the performance system."
"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."
"Graph monitoring is a valuable feature."
"HCL AppScan needs to improve security."
"We have experienced challenges when trying to integrate this solution with other products. When you compare it with the other SecOps products, the quality of the output is too low. It is not a new-age product. It is very outdated."
"The solution needs to improve in some areas. The tool needs to add more languages. It also needs to improve its speed."
"They could add a software component analysis tool."
"In future releases, I would like to see more aggressive reports. I would also like to see less false positives."
"The solution could improve by having a mobile version."
"The tool should improve its output. Scanning is not a challenge anymore since there are many such tools available in the market. The product needs to focus on how its output is being used by end users. It should be also more user-friendly. One of the major challenges is in the tool's integration with applications that need to be scanned. Sometimes, the scanning is not proper."
"IBM Security AppScan Source is rather hard to use."
"Support for Microsoft Dynamics needs improvement."
"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"
"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."
"If they can make LoadRunner more comprehensive, it would really help."
"Improvement wise, the pipeline should be enabled. It should be embedded as part of the tool itself rather than going with third-party tools. Monitoring should be more effective as well."
"The debugging capability should be improved."
"The reporting and GUI have room for improvement."
"The initial start-up of Micro Focus LoadRunner could be improved. When we add 20 or 30 scripts, the refresh is completed one by one. I would like to be able to select all the script at one time, so it can be completed in a single click, reducing the time required."
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HCL AppScan is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 39 reviews while OpenText LoadRunner Professional is ranked 2nd in Performance Testing Tools with 76 reviews. HCL AppScan is rated 7.6, while OpenText LoadRunner Professional is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HCL AppScan writes " A stable and scalable product useful for application security scanning". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText LoadRunner Professional writes "A sophisticated tool that supports many languages and works with all kinds of applications". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, Checkmarx One and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, whereas OpenText LoadRunner Professional is most compared with Tricentis NeoLoad, OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise, OpenText LoadRunner Cloud, Apache JMeter and IBM Rational Performance Tester.
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