OpenText LoadRunner Professional vs Worksoft Certify comparison

The compared OpenText and Worksoft solutions aren't in the same category. OpenText is ranked #4 in PTT , with an average rating of 8.5, and holds a 13.5% mindshare in the category. Worksoft is ranked #10 in TAt , with an average rating of 7.6, and holds a 4.3% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of OpenText users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Worksoft users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

OpenText LoadRunner Profess...

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Performance Testing Tools (4th), Load Testing Tools (4th)

Worksoft Certify

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Functional Testing Tools (10th), API Testing Tools (9th), Test Automation Tools (10th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Quality Assurance solutions, they serve different purposes. OpenText LoadRunner Professional is designed for Performance Testing Tools and holds a mindshare of 13.5%, down 13.9% compared to last year.
Worksoft Certify, on the other hand, focuses on Test Automation Tools, holds 4.3% mindshare, down 4.5% since last year.

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HelenSague

Senior Performance Testing Specialist at Canadian Pacific Railway

A sophisticated tool that supports many languages and works with all kinds of applications

I do not have any big challenges with LoadRunner. I only have some issues with load generators. It is a very common issue, and I hope it will be resolved in the latest release. For example, when we start to run our tests, users get the message that the load generator exceeded 80% of the CPU utilization. Even when the number of users is less, we get these messages. I am trying to resolve it, but it is not going. It is annoying. It is not a failure, but I hope that it will be resolved. IBM WebSphere MQ testing can be a bit challenging. It can handle that, but I hope that they will build more and more capabilities. We do a huge amount of testing for messaging. Just like aviation, the railway industry is based on messaging. There is messaging to build trains and messaging to create some bills. There are many train movements. Everything involves messaging. I wish that it will be developed more for IBM WebSphere testing. Monitoring is okay, but for testing, I currently have to create Java users. I have to load a lot of libraries from IBM WebSphere and so on.

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Shailesh-Parkhe

Manager-Projects at Cognizant

Powerful automation tool with a user-friendly interface, codeless automation, and adaptability to complex business processes, particularly in SAP environments

The tool itself is highly effective, especially when it comes to comprehensibility for newcomers. Even during the initial learning phase, I found it remarkably user-friendly. It facilitates quick onboarding and training of new resources. It offers features for building automation scripts, such as search and certify capture. A notable advantage is that it doesn't rely on other tools like Micro Focus UFT or Micro Focus ALM for script execution. Worksoft can run independently without the need for support from Microsoft Office, although the option to use it for maintaining data exists. The tool also includes debugging features and comprehensive reporting capabilities, generating PDF reports for easy analysis.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The initial setup and installation of the software were very easy and straightforward."

"Very useful for finding out how the system responds to load, stress, and normal situations, as well as benchmarking with other industry competitors. It also improved our response time, memory delegation, and CPU delegation. In addition, we used LoadRunner to optimize our database and website."

"The solution helps my clients save time. It is easier to capture reports and improves product quality. The product helps to identify customer defects during performance tests and reduces workloads. The product has improved my client's user interaction. It has reduced peak load times."

"I like LoadRunner's ability to use multiple protocols. That's one of the greatest features along with the ability to test service calls between the app and server."

"The reporting mechanism is a valuable feature that generates good reports."

"The load testing, reporting, and scripting features are all valuable features."

"The solution supports a lot of protocols."

"The solution is quite stable."

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"Certify integrates with other tools and it works very well with other machine testing applications."

"Our business users are doing regression testing as their day job. This is an add-on to their daily work. With everything so pressured in the industry, automation takes the pressure of these users."

"The easy of use and ease of integration of Worksoft Certify are very good."

"Provides all the in-built functionalities and is a wonderful tool."

"We were able to use Worksoft to automate all of the actions that we would have to take after an SAP refresh. This way we do the refresh, then that night or right afterwards, we run the Worksoft script and it resets all of our testing users. This sets them up with the right access, the right approvals, and just sets up everything on the back-end so we can do our scripts the next night."

"What I found most valuable in Worksoft Certify is its identification feature. I also found its automation feature valuable."

"The scripting methodology is easy to learn. It is easy to maintain because it is presented in a simple, narrative way. You don't need to know programming." "It has reduced our test maintenance time by more than 50 percent because we don't have to do manual test processes. We have saved over 150 man-hours monthly. It has increased our delivery times. We went from 200 man-hours down (three weeks work time frame) to approximately 40 man-hours (three days work time frame)."

"It is a lot easier to maintain test scripts on Worksoft Certify than on other testing tools that we have had in the past."

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Cons

"Technical support needs to be faster, and the pricing should be more competitive."

"The price of this solution should be cheaper."

"The solution is very costly. The cost is very high, especially considering a lot of other resources are available now and they are less expensive. For a small organization, it is very difficult to sustain the costs involved in having the solution or the related fees"

"Lacks specific level monitoring."

"Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional can improve the implementation of digital areas, such as digital testing, UI and native application, and native mobile applications."

"IBM WebSphere MQ testing can be a bit challenging. It can handle that, but I hope that they will build more and more capabilities. We do a huge amount of testing for messaging. Just like aviation, the railway industry is based on messaging. There is messaging to build trains and messaging to create some bills. There are many train movements. Everything involves messaging. I wish that it will be developed more for IBM WebSphere testing. Monitoring is okay, but for testing, I currently have to create Java users. I have to load a lot of libraries from IBM WebSphere and so on."

"The product is pretty heavy and should be more lightweight."

"The solution lacks some form of integration."

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"When it comes to mobile testing, we have a small bottleneck there. You have to buy third-party separate licenses if you want to test on a mobile. Business wise we see room for improvement there, although it's that really critical for us."

"An area that I would like to see improved is how the permissions are applied. If you're applying permissions groups to a user, one of the options is to delete the group entirely and lose the entire permission group, rather than just deleting the permission from the user, which seems a little silly. In my opinion, that whole module of permissions is very confusing and lends itself to common errors."

"I would like to see the impact analysis integrated with the performance testing tool. We have multiple tools doing multiple items. I would like to have one common tool."

"We can't get the process intelligence module to work properly. We can't get the impact comment that analyzes the incoming development code to run, either. We've also had bugs in the CTM and execution manager in the past year. It took technical support a long time to resolve this issue. We escalated it so that the vice president of the company was included as well."

"We're really hopeful for the mobile testing in Worksoft Certify going forward."

"We have had run ins with some bugs on Business Process Procedure (BPP) and Execution Manager."

"When it is unstable, there will be times when a test that we are running in Certify will just stop, and it will say, "Aborted." There will be errors. There will be no explanation as to why it happens. It has now happened maybe one out of 20 times. When it happens, I just tell our QA team to stop Certify and restart it, hoping we don't see it again."

"The updates for SAP Fiori have been great, where previously we saw a lot of issues. A year ago, it used to fail miserably."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't know the licensing cost, but I think that you would get a discount for normal usage. I think there are different yearly options for different types of usage. It is not only how many users, but also whether it is shareable or not and other criteria involved in each feature. There are additional fees for the users and hardware linked to the processing."

"I would rate the solution's pricing a nine out of ten."

"It is reasonable. We pay the cost, but we have everything. We have a big set of licenses for SAP and other applications. We have all kinds of licenses."

"LoadRunner is more expensive than some competing products."

"The fee for LoadRunner Professional is very high - about US$500 per user."

"The cost depends greatly on the needs of the testing engagement."

"The licensing model is complex. You have to pick up the protocol and the number of concurrent users, and then select the level of concurrent users. For example, there would be one price for 100 to 500 users and another for 500 to 2000 users. If you choose two protocols, then you will have to pay twice the amount depending on the number of concurrent users."

"There is an annual license required to use Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional. There are not any additional costs other than the licensing fees to use it."

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"In general, they changed their license model. Before you had to buy licenses for each component, and now they changed it so you can buy a license and use it for nearly all their applications."

"The initial investment is probably a little high. It was a little hard for me to sell, but it was a one-shot deal and that's why it's so high. All we are doing now is paying annual maintenance, which we don't have to do if we don't want upgrades, but we do."

"Our ROI is primarily a reduction in testing time. The testing, when we were doing it manually, was 30 to 40 percent of the project's cost."

"This solution is expensive."

"Worksoft has paid for itself fives times over."

"The tool is not really good at all because you need to purchase some additional tools."

"I think they came out with a different type of licensing specifically for testing. Therefore, you don't have to use a more expensive user license, you can use an automation license. So potentially, if we had 100 use cases, we could spin up a 100 different machines, have them all run and be done in five minutes. That would be the goal, but I don't know if that would actually succeed or not."

"Worksoft Capture 2.0 can help our customers to accelerate their automation development at least 40 percent faster than any other commercial tools available in the market."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Healthcare Company

Manufacturing Company

19%

Retailer

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Energy/Utilities Company

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Small Business

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.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional?

The pricing should be reduced and made more competitive.

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What needs improvement with Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional?

Technical support needs to be faster, and the pricing should be more competitive. The virtual table server feature should be reintroduced. Some AI capabilities should be added. There should be an '...

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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...

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What do you like most about Worksoft Certify?

A specific feature that I found to be the most valuable in the solution for our company's work processes stems from the fact that it is useful as a low-code automation tool.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Worksoft Certify?

The tool is worth the money.

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Comparisons

Tricentis NeoLoad vs OpenText LoadRunner Professional

Compared 31% of the time

OpenText LoadRunner Cloud vs OpenText LoadRunner Professional

Compared 14% of the time

Apache JMeter vs OpenText LoadRunner Professional

Compared 13% of the time

OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Enterprise) vs OpenText LoadRunner Professional

Compared 7% of the time

Tricentis Tosca vs OpenText LoadRunner Professional

Compared 4% of the time

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Tricentis Tosca vs Worksoft Certify

Compared 69% of the time

Selenium HQ vs Worksoft Certify

Compared 11% of the time

OpenText UFT One vs Worksoft Certify

Compared 7% of the time

UiPath Test Cloud vs Worksoft Certify

Compared 6% of the time

Panaya Test Dynamix vs Worksoft Certify

Compared 2% of the time

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Also Known As

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Overview

OpenText LoadRunner Professional is a performance testing tool used for various software applications, including web-related use cases, API testing, and enterprise performance modeling. Its valuable features include quick test case creation and execution, graph monitoring, multiple protocols, scripting and executing tests, scalability, easy setup, auto-correlation, analysis and reporting capabilities, stability, reliability, and compatibility with various programming languages.

LoadRunner has helped organizations load test potential new payroll solutions and choose the best option, record network traffic of mobile applications, and handle different protocols. It is the ultimate tool for performance testing.

OpenText LoadRunner Professional Will Enable You To:

Drive quality across your enterprise.
Alleviate the challenges of managing many application types, testing tools, licenses, repositories, and systems while working toward unified results.

With OpenText LoadRunner Professional You Can:

Increase organizational efficiency through standardization of tools and resources.
Balance your priorities and improve the results delivered by your testing team.
Increase testing productivity.
Improve collaboration across application teams.
Gain the ability to outsource some or all the tactical work of load testing.

OpenText LoadRunner Professional Features:

Intuitive and Easy to Use: OpenText LoadRunner Professional is intuitive, versatile, and easy to use, which makes it easy for testers to quickly learn the basics and apply them to their testing tasks, while engineers who are more experienced can utilize all the features for the most complex of scenarios.
Comprehensive Enterprise Coverage: OpenText LoadRunner Professional provides support for multiple protocols such as HTML, WebSocket, AJAX, RDP, Database, Remote Terminal Emulators, Citrix, Java, .NET, Oracle and SAP.
Scripting Technologies: Reduce scripting time by 50% or more via OpenText LoadRunner Professional’s TruClient protocol, and automatic correlation, and correlate both front end (user experience) and back end (load) issues.
Extensive and Flexible Test Scenarios: The LoadRunner solution provides several valuable features that let you validate, enhance, and modify your tests. It gives you the ability to integrate external measurements to assess the impact on every application component, extend tests with success-failure checks, and emulate peak loads. You can also apply load on the go and change parameters for better flexibility in order to yield the most representative testing possible.
Realistic Network Conditions: Network virtualization capabilities help accurately simulate realistic conditions for an accurate analysis of both throughput and user response time. Realistic network conditions are predicted using location-aware analytics, transaction analysis and optimization.
Accurate Workloads with Low Overhead: OpenText LoadRunner Professional allows you to run high-scale tests with minimal hardware so that you can apply accurate workloads to any application.
Ongoing Testing Support: The OpenText LoadRunner Professional solution provides continuous testing support via built-in integrations across IDE, CI/CD, open source test automation, monitoring, and source code management tools.

OpenText LoadRunner Professional Benefits:

Quickly deliver enterprise engineering capabilities and facilitate sharing of assets and collaboration.
Reduce complexity and increase utilization of infrastructure and human resources.
Get the big picture with cross-project reporting and individual project drill downs.
Increase collaboration and consistency with unified storage and access to all relevant assets.
Reduce costs with centralized management and built-in support of cloud-based load generation.
Analyze end-to-end performance, including topology, infrastructure-level, and advanced insights.
Incorporate application monitoring and user sentiment data to take a centralized approach to data collection and connect the dots.
Using powerful analytics and insights, gain visibility into the test status across the entire enterprise and performance trending information across multiple tests.

Reviews from Real Users:

"The most useful aspect of the solution is that it provides agents in different geographic locations.” - Head, Testing Centre of Excellence at NIIT Technologies Limited

"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.” - Test Automation, DevOps & Performance Engineering at a financial services firm

"The solution can handle a huge amount of workloads, it's quite scalable.” - Regional Head Customer Experience at a financial services firm

"The reporting mechanism is a valuable feature that generates good reports.” - Senior Architect at a computer software company

OpenText

Worksoft Certify is the industry's first codeless automated testing system, created for non-technical people to test end-to-end business processes at an enterprise scale.

It was designed to test complicated processes spanning numerous apps and integrating into contemporary DevOps tool chains. Worksoft Certify manages dynamic input, process flows, and frequent variances in business processes with ease.

Worksoft Certify automates the testing of your exact business processes across all of your enterprise applications. This solution makes it simple for customers and suppliers to package a process with all of its related dependencies, sub-processes, record sets, record filters, layouts, and variables.

Worksoft Certify automates tests as effortlessly and quickly as the underlying applications permit, allowing you to evaluate business processes in record time with flawless dependability and consistency. Worksoft Certify speeds up test automation by utilizing a patented Object Action Framework, which effectively models the application under test as a set of pages containing GUI objects and test steps that perform actions on those objects.

Worksoft Certify Features

Worksoft Certify has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

LiveTouch: Without coding, graphically edit and update tests.

No "fail" tests: See fail validations flagged when the end-to-end test continues.

Process comparison: Visually compare tests side by side and eliminate unnecessary tests to reduce maintenance

Magic search: AI-driven process search can find duplicate processes and keep automation libraries clean.

Exploratory testing: Real-time automated exploratory tests.

API testing: Utilize the virtual services and current SoapUI tests.

Test data generator: Obtain data from SAP for testing.

Create content: Make use of the more than 300 prebuilt SAP end-to-end testing scenarios.

Visual capture: Support agile testing by using automation artifacts from process discovery.

Full compatibility: Web, Java, .Net, client/server applications, SAP GUI, FIORI, web portal Workday, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Ariba, SuccessFactors, Hybris, AJAX, and more.

Worksoft Certify Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing Worksoft Certify. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Speed: Automate at least 80% of testing to accelerate innovation.

Savings: Reduce overall testing and maintenance expenditures by 60% to 80%.

Confidence: Identify defects faster and reduce production defects by 60%.

DevOps-ready: Run tests as part of continuous integration, testing, or delivery cycle.

Support for RPA: Convert test scripts into robotic process automation.

Reviews from Real Users

Jens N., Enterprise Architect SAP Solutions at a computer software company, writes, “As compared to other tools for test automation, what is very good in this tool is the ability to implement logic into the scripts without coding and learning a complex script language. It is comparable to defining formulas in Excel. It is pretty easy to learn how to make your scripts more intelligent and more flexible as per the situation.”

Aditya C., Sr Test Automation Architect at a tech services company, notes, “The most valuable features of Worksoft Certify are the way we can maintain the processes and sub-processes inside. We can immediately identify and replicate multiple objects in the application without having a major issue with it.”

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