We performed a comparison between Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional and Tricentis NeoLoad based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Tricentis NeoLoad offers seamless capturing of scripting and dynamic variables. Users are able to scale up quickly. A user favorite feature is the ability to generate loads from different geographies easily. Users recommend improving its integration with third-party tools. Currently, the integration process is complex and time-consuming.
Comparison Results: When selecting a Performance Testing Solution for an organization, Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional finishes ahead of Tricentis NeoLoad. Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional supports numerous protocols and applications and is very user-friendly. The solution is continually updating to ensure users get the best possible experience possible every time. Users consistently feel Tricentis NeoLoad should support more protocols to be more competitive with other solutions. They also related that testing could be a bit buggy at times, which adds to the solution being less desirable.
"There are various languages that they allow those programs to be written in, whether you want to use Java or something else."
"Enables us to test most of the products and projects that we have across all the different technologies, without having to look at other tools."
"The stability of Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is very high. It is the leading tool for stability."
"Its variety of testing tools for different applications is of great benefit, as well as its integration capabilities with other testing and monitoring solutions."
"A very comprehensive tool that is good for performance testing."
"LoadRunner Professional allowed us to load test potential new payroll solutions that would be implemented throughout the entire organization so that we knew which was best suited to performing well under pressure."
"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."
"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."
"It helped in achieving the testing of on-premise applications, as well as cloud-based applications, without much difficulty."
"What I found best in Tricentis NeoLoad is that it's better with scripting and load test execution in the load testing environment compared to its competitors. The tool has a better design, scenarios, and model, which I find helpful. I also found the Result Manager a fascinating part of Tricentis NeoLoad because of the way it collates results and presents reports. The straightforward implementation of Tricentis NeoLoad, including ease of use, is also valuable to my team."
"It is a good source for load, stress and performance testing."
"The scripting is really user-friendly and the reporting is very good."
"I would rate it as eight out of 10 for ease of setting up."
"NeoLoad is best tool for testing in production without making many changes to the script or solution."
"I feel that the codeless part, the dynamic value capture part is quite easy in NeoLoad compared to other tools."
"The best feature of the solution is that we can utilize the Tosca scripts for NeoLoad execution."
"The product is not stable and reliable in the version we are currently using."
"The price of this solution should be cheaper."
"I recently just got to see LoadRunner Developer, but it is still not fully developed to use."
"The tool should consider releasing a SaaS version since it makes more sense nowadays."
"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 pricing model, selling model, and business model need to be adjusted. For non-enterprise organizations, Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is too expensive and not worth the cost."
"You should be able to use LoadRunner as a single platform. You should be able to have browser based access. You should be able to run enterprise tests."
"Instead of having too many graphs and tabs, use the analysis section to get a more simplified defect analysis."
"The protocol support area could be improved."
"Regular and strong support has to be made available by Tricentis during the solution's implementation and initial setup."
"It needs improvement with post-production."
"NeoLoad does not support Citrix-based applications."
"NeoLoad can improve the correlation templates, which are specific to frameworks. There's room for improvement in that area."
"Support wasn't able to solve a technical issue."
"It is easier to comprehend the analysis on its on-premise setup but not on its on-cloud setup."
"There is room for improvement with the support and community documentation as it can be difficult to find answers to questions quickly."
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OpenText LoadRunner Professional is ranked 2nd in Performance Testing Tools with 76 reviews while Tricentis NeoLoad is ranked 3rd in Performance Testing Tools with 59 reviews. OpenText LoadRunner Professional is rated 8.4, while Tricentis NeoLoad is rated 8.2. 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 Tricentis NeoLoad writes "Supports SAP and non-SAP applications and helps identify performance issues before production deployment". OpenText LoadRunner Professional is most compared with OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise, OpenText LoadRunner Cloud, Apache JMeter, IBM Rational Performance Tester and BlazeMeter, whereas Tricentis NeoLoad is most compared with Apache JMeter, OpenText LoadRunner Cloud, Tricentis Tosca, BlazeMeter and Tricentis Flood. See our OpenText LoadRunner Professional vs. Tricentis NeoLoad report.
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