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HelenSague
A sophisticated tool that supports many languages and works with all kinds of applications
LoadRunner Professional has helped a lot. Very often, I get a request from the release team, and I have one or two days to prepare a script and run... Read more →
Anonymous User
It helps save on manpower and cost, boosts productivity, and makes processes faster
My company gets some savings in manpower and cost and enjoys a boost in productivity because you only need a few hours to run end-to-end testing... Read more →
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Pros
"I think that analytics is very good and that the analytics features are very powerful.""I would rate Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional's stability at eight out of ten.""The most valuable feature depends on what we're doing at the time. In the past, the greatest feature was the ability to record and play back to produce a script. Another great feature is that we can monitor the system. They also support many protocols to perform load testing.""I recommend LoadRunner Professional as it supports many protocols and applications and is very easy to set up and use.""The tool's most valuable features are scripting and automation.""The front loader and the reporting features are the most valuable aspects of OpenText LoadRunner Professional.""It provides clients with an understanding of application and system performance.""The most valuable features of Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional are scripting and executing the tests."

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"Certify's web UI testing abilities for testing of modern applications like SAP Fiori was good when we started and they developed it to be even better. We all know that web applications can change objects in DOM quite fast and it breaks tests. To counter it Certify has made object recognition more flexible and generic, so we don't have any troubles.""We are able to automate, not just SAP, but the entire application ecosystem. If you take any company, SAP is the backbone, and if they use SAP ERP, then, there are multiple software applications, where some of them are SAP and some of them are non-SAP applications. Worksoft is one of the tools which can transcend across SAP and non-SAP applications. Non-SAP application include Java or .NET. Worksoft can seamlessly automate these applications.""Worksoft Certify supports multiple interfaces and applications like SAP, Web, or Silverlight Java, and Mainframe. It is easily integrated.""The ease of use is superior to anything on the market. It's very easy to integrate. We've been very impressed with the tool. Because we primarily use the configuration with SAP, the integration is pretty seamless. But we have used our own in-house VB app as well, and it's worked very well with that.""It is a huge improvement, as it recognizes complex general applications, where most tools won't recognize the objects within them.""Certify integrates with other tools and it works very well with other machine testing applications.""It's script-free, which is really important for our end users because we are usually dealing with colleagues who are not developers and who do not always have the technical background of developing and scripting. It's very useful that there is a nice UI and the tool is script-free.""We have been able to save on a lot of manual work for some very high skilled, expensive resources. This has been able to free up a significant amount of their time so they can spend more time on innovation and more creative, value-add activities. That's been one of the more rewarding things that we've done, and the most appreciated."

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Cons
"I would like to see better-licensing costs.""Licensing costs could be reduced.""I would like them to lower the licensing cost and provide better support.""There's a reporting part of the cloud that could be improved a little bit.""In terms of resource management, you need a lot of high capacity boxes if you need to generate a load of 1,000 or 2,000 users.""Support for Microsoft Dynamics needs improvement.""I also use the TrueClient feature for browser-based testing. I found the TrueClient feature to be a bit difficult to use and not very user-friendly for automating scripts.""Improvement wise, the pipeline should be enabled. It should be embedded as part of the tool itself rather than going with third-party tools. Monitoring should be more effective as well."

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"It is poor for a web based application.""The overall speed and performance of this solution could be improved. In a future release, it would be useful to be able to do API testing.""We're really hopeful for the mobile testing in Worksoft Certify going forward.""We can use it for the web application, but we are facing stability-related challenges. The properties are getting changed. For example, when I am performing any operation on the text box but the development team has done some changes, our Worksoft scripts are getting changed. This is the main challenge that we are facing while developing tests for the web application in Worksoft Certify, where any changes in the backend are indirectly impacting our scripts. For the web application, there is a scarcity of resources. Unlike an SAP application that doesn't require much experience, for the web application, you require experienced people.""The technical support of the product is an area of concern where certain improvements are required.""Worksoft Certify's support team should respond more promptly when we are stuck with certain issues and looking for a solution.""One feature that could be added to Capture 2.0 is generating a PDF file from your capture, so you can see your screenshots and steps.""The problem with Worksoft Certify is that it's not always stable. It runs on a live platform that's constantly changing, so the test script needs to be adjusted every time, which is very painful."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The cost depends greatly on the needs of the testing engagement."
  • "I would still consider LoadRunner as an expensive tool and you get a LoadRunner and the Performance Center."
  • "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."
  • "The licensing fees are based on the number of users."
  • "It is competing with other products that may cost significantly less or may be available as open-source. Because of that it is relatively expensive."
  • "LoadRunner Professional is an expensive product."
  • "This is not a cheap product."
  • "There is a licensing cost that is expensive."

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  • "The tool is not really good at all because you need to purchase some additional tools."
  • "We would purchase more licenses right now if they were cheaper. Pricing is a little bit of a hindrance."
  • "It is expensive compared to some of the other automation tools in the market. However, the benefits and ROI has proved that it has been a good investment."
  • "The initial upfront cost in terms of licenses, plus all the money that we spent developing tests, has proven it's worth. Now, we can do a regression test suite in ten days as opposed to sixteen weeks."
  • "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."
  • "We ended up buying too many licenses. They were very good at selling it to us, and probably oversold it a little. We bought 45 licenses and have never used more than twenty. However, they gave us a pretty significant discount on the bigger license, so it made sense for us to buy enough that we wouldn't have to go back and ask for more."
  • "We could use Certify to do robotic process automation, which is basically running a process on your correction system instead of your test system. Therefore, we may do that in the future."
  • "By using automation, it reduced about 75 percent of the time when compared to any other tool."

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    LoadRunner vs NeoLoad
    The six phases of an IT project Enthusiasm Disillusionment Panic Search for the guilty Punishment of the innocent (the performance tester) Praise and rewards for the incompetent non-participants This article has been put together as part of an evaluation of the performance test tools NeoLoad and LoadRunner. I consulted a variety of sources, including user groups, discussions with colleagues, telephone chats with HP (the vendors of LoadRunner) and Neotys (the vendors of NeoLoad), and of course the Oracle – Google. The opinions in this article are my own and do not represent the views of any particular company, the software vendors or any organisation (and I’ve assumed that readers have some knowledge of web application performance testing). The versions discussed in this article as of April 2014 are: LoadRunner 11.52 NeoLoad 4.2.2 I hope this evaluation and comparison will assist you with your own evaluation of LoadRunner and NeoLoad. Introduction LoadRunner and NeoLoad are considered the top two best performance testing tools on the market. Comparing the two tools is just like comparing a Mercedes Benz and a BMW: both are high performance, perfectly engineered machines that also have an associated prestige. Performance testing is a critical component of the software testing process. It determines the actual operational boundaries that will simulate the real world use of an application. Performance testing is load testing, stress testing and scalability testing. Why… Read more →
    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional?
    Top Answer:My favorite feature in LoadRunner Professional is its ability to group scripts under separate IDs.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus LoadR...
    Top Answer:The pricing model, especially when involving partners, could use some improvement.
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    What needs improvement with Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional?
    Top Answer:In terms of improvement, it lacks mobile testing features present in some competitors, like GitMatters, which I find valuable. Adding this capability would enhance the tool's versatility, making it… more »
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    How does Tricentis Tosca compare with Worksoft Certify?
    Top Answer: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… more »
    What do you like most about Worksoft Certify?
    Top Answer: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?
    Top Answer:Worksoft Certify is priced higher than most tools. I rate Worksoft Certify an eight out of ten for pricing.
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    Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional, Micro Focus LoadRunner, HPE LoadRunner, LoadRunner
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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

    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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    Computer Software Company30%
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Non Profit7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Government7%
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    Manufacturing Company36%
    Energy/Utilities Company11%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Pharma/Biotech Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Manufacturing Company17%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Retailer8%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Company Size
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    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise68%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise73%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business7%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise84%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise73%
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    OpenText LoadRunner Professional is ranked 2nd in Performance Testing Tools with 76 reviews while Worksoft Certify is ranked 5th in Test Automation Tools with 64 reviews. OpenText LoadRunner Professional is rated 8.4, while Worksoft Certify is rated 8.4. 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 Worksoft Certify writes "Enables us to automate end-to-end testing of our integration between S/4HANA and Salesforce.com". OpenText LoadRunner Professional is most compared with Tricentis NeoLoad, OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise, OpenText LoadRunner Cloud, Apache JMeter and IBM Rational Performance Tester, whereas Worksoft Certify is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Selenium HQ, OpenText UFT One, Katalon Studio and Automation Anywhere (AA).

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