We performed a comparison between OpenText LoadRunner Professional and OpenText Silk Performer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, OpenText, Tricentis and others in Load Testing Tools."The stability of Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is very high. It is the leading tool for stability."
"The Analysis feature makes it easy to analyze cross-data and we can pin to the focus period."
"Scaling is definitely one of the best features of this solution. There are no issues scaling to 10,000 or 20,000 concurrent users."
"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."
"The front loader and the reporting features are the most valuable aspects of OpenText LoadRunner Professional."
"A very comprehensive tool that is good for performance testing."
"The number of protocols that it supports, and especially, for example, when it talks about SAP GUI-based performance testing."
"The solution supports a lot of protocols."
"A good monitoring tool, simple to script and easy to configure."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is low, and ten is high-quality technical support, I rate the support a one."
"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."
"The product is not stable and reliable in the version we are currently using."
"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."
"Micro Focus has two separate products for web and mobile applications, which means you have to invest in both."
"I would like to have better support for adding more users per load generator."
"Licensing costs could be reduced."
"The solution must be more user-friendly."
"If you have a large amount of data, the solution can struggle."
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OpenText LoadRunner Professional is ranked 2nd in Load Testing Tools with 76 reviews while OpenText Silk Performer is ranked 10th in Load Testing Tools with 1 review. OpenText LoadRunner Professional is rated 8.4, while OpenText Silk Performer is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of OpenText LoadRunner Professional writes "A sophisticated tool that supports many languages and works with all kinds of applications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText Silk Performer writes "Scripting and basic test executions are good features; configuring the workload for tests is easy". OpenText LoadRunner Professional is most compared with Tricentis NeoLoad, OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise, OpenText LoadRunner Cloud, Apache JMeter and IBM Rational Performance Tester, whereas OpenText Silk Performer is most compared with Apache JMeter and OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise.
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