"It can support both web applications and mobile applications, and in certain cases, it can also support testing of desktop applications or software-based applications. You can write web applications, mobile applications, and software-based applications."
"It is an advanced tool with multiple options available for the performance system."
"What we like the most is that it integrates with UC."
"The solution can handle a huge amount of workloads, it's quite scalable."
"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."
"The stability of Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is very high. It is the leading tool for stability."
"It has good protocol coverage."
"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 important feature for us is that it supports a lot of protocols because we support all of them, including HTTP, FTP, mainframe, and others."
"There are some features that Micro Focus LoadRunner provides, but they are not available in IBM Rational Performance Tester. They should include such features. It can also have more reports similar to what HP provides. It might also need some improvement in terms of the tools and support for other technology areas. Certain technologies are not supported by every tool. They need to support all sorts of technologies and platforms on which web applications and mobile applications are built. They need complete support for all sorts of technologies."
"The solution lacks some form of integration."
"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."
"The product is pretty heavy and should be more lightweight."
"Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional can improve the implementation of digital areas, such as digital testing, UI and native application, and native mobile applications."
"I would like to see better-licensing costs."
"The product is not stable and reliable in the version we are currently using."
"The flexibility could be improved."
"We are going to continue to use the product in the future, I recommend this product. However, those who are looking for only REST-based on the API, I would recommend some other tool because of the cost. There are others available on the market."
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IBM Rational Performance Tester is ranked 18th in Test Management Tools with 1 review while Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is ranked 2nd in Performance Testing Tools with 10 reviews. IBM Rational Performance Tester is rated 0.0, while Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Rational Performance Tester writes "Supports web and mobile applications, very scalable, very stable, and wonderful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional writes "Has a good pedigree but there are strong contenders out there". IBM Rational Performance Tester is most compared with Apache JMeter, IBM Rational Test Workbench, Tricentis NeoLoad, Micro Focus LoadRunner Cloud and BlazeMeter, whereas Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is most compared with Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise, Micro Focus LoadRunner Cloud and Tricentis Tosca.
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