We performed a comparison between IBM Rational Test Workbench, OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise, and Selenium HQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Reporting is pretty good. Its interface is also good. I'm overall pretty happy with the functionality and use of IBM Rational Test Workbench."
"For me, LoadRunner stands out, especially with its reporting capabilities, the graphs that can be generated, and the unique feature of measuring our application's response alongside our infrastructure metrics, such as CPU, memory, or disk usage, all presented in graph form. This is something other applications struggle to match."
"It's a very powerful tool."
"The fact that you can have tens of thousands of virtual users and just expand an army of load generators to hammer on whatever application you're testing."
"The solution supports a number of protocols."
"The product is very user-friendly."
"With Performance Center, the version upgrade is easy. You just have to roll out the new patch or the new version."
"Now that LoadRunner integrates with Dynatrace and other monitoring tools, it simplifies the process of integration into a company, taking merely five minutes to set up. This ease of integration allows for quick comparison of monitoring and performance results, a feature I highly appreciate."
"Support is nice, quick, and responsive."
"The plugins, the components, and the method of the library with Selenium is very user defined."
"I like the record and playback features. We also appreciate that it's not just writing on a script that we create. While we were browsing our web application, it automatically records all the clicks and movements of points. We also appreciate the fact that it provides screenshots of everything in the output."
"Selenium HQ has a lot of capabilities and is compatible with many languages."
"The main characteristic that is useful is that the tool is completely free."
"Selenium has helped to complete tests in less time, which would not be possible relying on manual testing only."
"It supports many external plugins, and because it's a Java-based platform, it's language-independent. You can use Java, C#, Python, etc."
"It supports most of the actions that a user would do on a website."
"The grids, as well as the selectors, are the most valuable features."
"There are a number of things that they can do to simplify the tools, but the most important thing that they need to do is simplify the installation."
"It should have more interfaces. In terms of interfaces or protocols, what you can do with Rational is far limited as compared to other products out there. What it does, it does great, but it only gives you limited types of protocols. It supports between 8 to 15 types of protocols, whereas other test tools give you 20 to 30 types of protocols with which you can do testing and convert to script. It records Javascript-based scripts, and you got to know a little bit of Java to basically be able to edit them, but the level of editing you got to do is very low. I like that, but the ability to edit the script is not as good as Parasoft or LoadRunner, which have C-Script."
"For such an experienced team as mine, who have been with the product for over ten years, sometimes working with technical support is not that easy."
"The worst thing about it is it did not have zero footprint on your PC."
"On the newer versions, I think the bleeding edge is still being worked on."
"The TruClient protocol works well but it takes a lot of memory to run those tests, which is something that can be improved."
"Dashboard creation should be implemented, so we can get the results in a desired format."
"We are expecting more flexible to use Jenkins in continuous integration going forward."
"The solution is a very expensive tool when compared with other tools."
"The solution can be improved by making it more user-friendly, and by including autocorrelation capability."
"Selenium HQ can improve by creating an enterprise version where it can provide the infrastructure for running the tests. Currently, we need to run the test in our infrastructure because it's a free tool. If Google can start an enterprise subscription and they can provide us with the infrastructure, such as Google Cloud infrastructure where we can configure it, and we can run the test there, it would be highly beneficial."
"I continuously see failures in threads when it is running in parallel."
"Could have additional readability and abstraction."
"The login could be improved, to obviate the need for relying on another one for integration with Selenium HQ"
"Selenium HQ can be complex. The interface requires a QA engineer or an expert to use it."
"When we upgrade the version, some features are missing. I want the product to include some AI capabilities."
"For email-based applications, we can't automate as we would like to, making it necessary to bring in a third-party product to do so."
"It would be very great if Selenium would provide some framework examples so newcomers could get started more quickly."
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