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OpenText Professional Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Professional) vs Tricentis Tosca comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.8
LoadRunner Professional offers strong ROI with reduced downtime, improved performance, and cost savings, justifying its initial investment.
Sentiment score
6.7
Tricentis Tosca offers positive ROI through quick test automation, benefiting agile environments by reducing testing time and costs.
Tasks that typically take ten hours are reduced to two to three hours, representing a threefold productivity gain.
Senior Director at Ascendion
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.0
OpenText LoadRunner Professional support varies, with mixed feedback on responsiveness; community forums are often used for assistance.
Sentiment score
6.7
Tricentis Tosca's customer service is efficient and knowledgeable, though some users experience delays and desire process improvements.
If I need to rate support from one to ten, I would say it is a nine.
Assistant Consultant at Tata Consultancy
The technical support is really excellent.
Assistant Director at Synapxe
The overall competence of the support has declined; previously, the support was very good, but recently, it has become difficult to reach them and get solutions, and it's taking a lot of time.
Technical Architect at MOURI Tech
My experience has been positive; their response to emails or phone calls in tech support is fast, usually between eight to ten hours.
Senior Director at Ascendion
There is no way to mark the importance or criticality of incidents when creating them.
Test Automation Specialist at Accenture
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
OpenText LoadRunner Professional provides scalable testing with high user counts, diverse protocols, but may require careful consideration of resource needs.
Sentiment score
7.2
Tricentis Tosca is praised for scalability, effectively managing concurrent tests and meeting enterprise requirements despite some cost challenges.
We look at the scalability because we are using the SaaS model now.
Assistant Director at Synapxe
It covers a breadth of applications and products, demonstrating excellent scalability that I have seen in reality.
Senior Director at Ascendion
Scalability is excellent with Tricentis Tosca.
Senior Software Engineer 2 at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
OpenText Professional Performance Engineering is highly stable and reliable, preferred over other tools despite minor bugs.
Sentiment score
7.4
Tricentis Tosca is generally stable, with minor errors, and users highly rate its reliable automated testing capabilities.
I see it is stable, though there are some glitches or latency sometimes.
Assistant Director at Synapxe
For performance and stability, Tricentis Tosca deserves a 10 out of 10.
Senior Software Engineer 2 at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The stability of Tricentis Tosca is rated ten out of ten. It is very stable.
Senior Director at Ascendion
I find stability issues when using the Vision AI feature; Tricentis Tosca is not very stable.
Test Automation Specialist at Accenture
 

Room For Improvement

OpenText LoadRunner Professional is expensive and complex, needing simplification, better integration, automation, and enhanced reporting features.
Tricentis Tosca struggles with upgrades, high costs, mobile testing difficulties, and requires improvements in AI, UI, and reporting.
I find that AI functionality in OpenText LoadRunner Professional should be improved and more accessible.
Assistant Consultant at Tata Consultancy
The self-healing process should automatically handle any changes in web applications; for instance, if properties change inside the application, the tool should automatically take care of it, unlike other tools such as Mabl and TestComplete that have better self-healing capabilities.
Technical Architect at MOURI Tech
The Vision AI implementation works very slowly, affecting the speed of our work.
Test Automation Specialist at Accenture
Moving to a cloud-based application rather than a desktop one could improve Tosca.
Sr Test Automation Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
 

Setup Cost

OpenText LoadRunner Professional offers flexible scaling and support but may be costly compared to competitors due to additional user fees.
Tricentis Tosca's pricing is high, appealing to large enterprises with flexible licensing, though costly for smaller companies.
The pricing for Tricentis Tosca is extremely high, and I rate it as ten in terms of expense.
Senior Director at Ascendion
A yearly license costs around 20,000 euros.
Test Automation Specialist at Accenture
For enterprise customers, the cost is manageable because it provides solutions for multiple applications they want to automate.
Sr Test Automation Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
 

Valuable Features

OpenText LoadRunner Professional offers robust scripting, analytics, diverse protocol support, and advanced scaling for efficient performance testing.
Tricentis Tosca offers model-based automation, scriptless testing, drag-and-drop functionality, and AI optimization, enhancing ease of use and integration.
Overall, the installation was quite easy since OpenText Professional Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Professional) is SaaS-based.
Assistant Director at Synapxe
The most valuable feature of OpenText LoadRunner Professional is the analysis part that is really good, along with the support for multiple protocols.
Assistant Consultant at Tata Consultancy
It allows for drag-and-drop functionality and demo automation in SAP-based applications, which can be challenging with other automation tools.
Sr Test Automation Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The features I find most valuable in Tricentis Tosca are that it's the easiest way to build the scripts and to do the CI/CD process; using Tricentis Tosca is very useful and easy.
Technical Architect at MOURI Tech
The modular approach reduces scripting effort by at least fifty percent, which significantly cuts down on the script development time.
Senior Director at Ascendion
 

Categories and Ranking

OpenText Professional Perfo...
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
82
Ranking in other categories
Performance Testing Tools (4th), Load Testing Tools (4th)
Tricentis Tosca
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
113
Ranking in other categories
Service Virtualization (1st), Functional Testing Tools (1st), Mobile App Testing Tools (1st), Regression Testing Tools (1st), API Testing Tools (3rd), Test Automation Tools (1st)
 

Featured Reviews

SD
Assistant Consultant at Tata Consultancy
Experience a decade of seamless performance with robust support
I would like to improve OpenText LoadRunner Professional based on what we discussed in our last discussion, as those points remain similar and applicable. For future updates, I would like to see the same features that people generally prefer. I find that AI functionality in OpenText LoadRunner Professional should be improved and more accessible; if we get a chance to work with that, then we can check how much it helps.
SJ
Test Automation Specialist at Accenture
Has useful scanning, basic web application automation, and data validation capabilities
The main issue with Tricentis Tosca is its cost, which is very high. Although using Tosca can reduce the number of testers needed compared to open-source tools like Selenium, companies might still need to focus on resources. I would recommend Tricentis reduce the cost of its licenses. I rate the overall solution a ten out of ten as I am satisfied with it.
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Comparison Review

it_user104961 - PeerSpot reviewer
Penetration and Neoload Tester at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Apr 13, 2014
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Computer Software Company
7%
Government
6%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Retailer
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business17
Midsize Enterprise14
Large Enterprise66
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise72
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional?
When designing a workload model offers a good range of possibilities for creating goal-oriented scenarios, which helps us understand and meet SLAs.
What needs improvement with Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional?
I have mentioned many advantages about this product, but to discuss disadvantages or areas that could be improved, I would need to consult with my engineers who are working on it. So far I have not...
How does Micro Focus UFT One compare to Tricentis Tosca?
We reviewed MicroFocus UFT One but ultimately chose to use Tricentis Tosca because we needed API testing. MicroFocus UFT is a performance and functional testing tool. We tested it, and it was well...
How does Tricentis Tosca compare with Worksoft Certify?
Tosca fulfills our business needs better because it is an end-to-end solution across technologies. We like that it is scriptless, so even non-experienced staff can use it. To put it simply, with To...
What do you like most about Tricentis Tosca?
For beginners, the product is good, especially for those who are interested in the quality side of software testing.
 

Also Known As

Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional, Micro Focus LoadRunner, HPE LoadRunner, LoadRunner
Orchestrated Service Virtualization
 

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