For me, LoadRunner stands out, especially with its reporting capabilities, the graphs that can be generated, and the unique feature of measuring our application's response alongside our infrastructure metrics, such as CPU, memory, or disk usage, all presented in graph form. This is something other applications struggle to match.

The real-time monitoring and analysis feature improved our test accuracy. It significantly enhances test accuracy by providing a holistic view of the testing process. Real-time monitoring allows us to see not only the front-end response times but also what's happening with the back-end systems or infrastructure, making it much easier to identify and troubleshoot bottlenecks.

The tool is user-friendly and easy to learn, which is great for newcomers to performance testing. The challenge comes with scripting, especially for those without a programming background. Understanding code and modifying scripts with conditions requires some coding knowledge. Without it, it's less likely to fully utilize the tool.

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It is pretty easy to do test execution and results analysis. When it comes to scenario settings, LoadRunner Enterprise has an extra edge over other testing tools in the industry. The scenario setup is easy, and in terms of execution, we have a clear idea of what is happening. When it comes to analysis, it is easy to download the analysis file and see all the analysis. We have many filters available, and it is easy to customize according to our needs.

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I find the runtime settings beneficial for creating realistic load scenarios, which allow me to combine different actions into realistic workload scenarios. So, runtime settings and the features in there.

The real-time test analysis and reporting feature has very much enhanced the testing processes for me. In terms of reporting, I have a controller that must be used all the time to make the most out of that license. So, basically, the server that has the controller installed is used window after window of testing. 

I use it for two hours, another colleague's test for two hours, etc. Now, if my test lasts exactly one hour and a half or two hours, I do not have the necessary time to analyze the results on the server. 

So I take it offline on my computer, where I have the Analyzer for free, due to OpenText's license system. And then I can analyze it offline for as much as I want so I can draw my conclusions. 

Features inside the Analyzer that I use are overlapping graphs or correlation of graphs, all these kinds of stuff which allow me to see the results much faster than in other tools.

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For me, the test coverage and the performance and load testing aspects are valuable. I have a test management team that works for me. They are the guys who are writing JMeter and Selenium scripts and custom labs to do all the testing. I do not get overly involved in that. My role is more about whether the overall solution is going to work. Is the overall platform going to work? Are we within SLA? Are we within functionality? Also, when we do any upgrades or releases, I have to certify to the client. I need to know how many scripts we have run. If we have done only fifty because we only got two weeks, I need them to do more. Having automated testing that we can run and have it consistent every time, and that can run quicker and more efficiently is very important. I get that level of performance, load, and regression functional testing that makes it easier for me to sleep at night.

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The tool's most valuable features are scripting, correlations, and parameterization. Debugging is also easy. 

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Creating the script is very easy and user friendly. If you need to simulate a use case, it's easily recorded using VuGen. It also enables the creation of monitors for a particular system which includes FD dashboards. Remote servers can also be monitored while your test is running on the LRE dashboard.

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What we call the LoadRunner analysis is the most useful aspect of the solution. With it, you could do reports and it does all the statistics, and then you can do the cross-verification or cross-analysis as well to look at comparisons. Those are fascinating.

The installation is quick.

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We use all the features in the solution. We use it for performance testing and load testing. We have been hearing more about third-party integration with chaos testing. It's certainly something we'd like to do more within Costco. We have also started implementing shift-left and DevWeb.

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The host performance testing of any application using a host/controller is the most valuable feature. This feature helps to replicate virtual users, configure multiple test scripts, and configure multiple simulators from various geographic locations to run a single test. There are a lot of configurations available to replicate browser cache/with no browser cache and network-related features prior to triggering any test.

The beauty of the host is that any tester can launch it and check the status of runs, monitor test statistics, etc.

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The type of application support Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise has is very good. The solution does support a wide range of technologies and protocols. Plus, two features, network virtualization, and service virtualization, are really helpful. Apart from that, the way they have their billing scenarios, like the execution, is very good. We can also have a lot of flexibility in building various scenarios or a load test which is one good thing. I like the way they have made their reporting area. Using certain features in the solution, the insights one gets are very useful for understanding the performance issues in the application.

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The most beneficial features of the solution are flexibility and versatility in their performance. It is seamlessly handling a wide range of protocols and technologies.

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The most valuable aspect of Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise is the overall support it has for a lot of different applications and defined domains.

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With LoadRunner, 80% of the cases will be supported. It has everything. It supports most features. It's very feature-rich.

The solution offers helpful guidelines and has good documentation.

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With ALM, being able to write our test scripts and being able to document our test results are valuable. That comes in handy. This way, we have a record of the things that have been tested. There are also workflows that we can create, which are very helpful. 

With LoadRunner Enterprise, doing various types of performance testing, load testing, and automation testing has been very helpful for some of the teams.

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We have a different option. We can schedule our scripts to execute at a specific time based on the requirement with a specified number of users. LoadRunner offers such facilities which other tools lack.

OpenText helps us identify the amount of load testing impacts on overall performance. We can measure metrics like hits per second and detect deviations or issues through graphs. We can filter out response times based on timings and identify spikes in the database or AWS reports. We can also analyse long-running queries or reasons behind response time degradation. By filtering out details like 90th or 95th percentile response times, we gain insight into when and why transactions degrade, providing detailed information.

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OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise supports a number of protocols. The number of automation built into the platform, specifically in the analysis area, is valuable to us.

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The product is very user-friendly. It is the best in the market when it comes to performance testing and load testing. It gives accurate results. No other tool can match the product’s report quality.

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I like how you can make modifications to the script on LoadRunner Enterprise. You don't have to go into the IDE itself. You can make a quick change.

The setup is straightforward. 

It's a stable solution. 

Support is helpful. 

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What I like most in Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise is the comparison between two different exhibitions which gives value to my company. I also like that the solution is user-friendly, especially in terms of making specific changes. For example, in the past, you can't see the changes when you upload scripts into the Performance Center, but now, it has that visibility, so whenever you want, you can change the script in the Performance Center.

I also like that Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise is the only tool you can utilize for all your needs, even for different protocols and scripting. The solution also has the latest features, for example, networkability, where it can, within the UI, follow the waterfall model. You can use the insights in the Performance Center of Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise to address or test URLs that usually take up much time.

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The product is good, and the concept is good as well.

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The most valuable feature is the Vuser protocols.

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Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise is easy to use and has flexibility that allows it to be used on a variety of applications.

The solution has something called True Client which makes it easy to create scripts if we have a big application with many steps. True Client is helpful when we record our scripts and we have the possibility to generate a standard script from the True Client script. I use True Client a lot.

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We have a centralized delivery team and we are able to meet enterprise requirements, which include different types of protocols that are involved, including scripting. The technology supports that and enables us to have a wider range of testing. Enterprise-level testing is something that we are satisfied with.

LoadRunner helps to facilitate sharing of best practices and skills. That's the way we expect any enterprise tool to work. It helps us to follow best practices and share them with other teams as well. It's quite important to have that consistency in terms of the quality of deliverables. It plays a key role. It enables us to have that benchmarking in terms of quality and is one of the crucial requirements for us.

The cross-project reporting and business views are among the valuable features because a huge platform can have multiple projects that are being executed in parallel. In that scenario, the reporting provides a holistic view for the stakeholders.

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OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise Is very user-friendly.

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LoadRunner Enterprise's best feature is the detailed reporting structure.

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One of the most valuable features of this solution is recording and replaying, and the fact that there are multiple options available to do this. For example, a normal web application can be recorded and replayed again on many platforms. Moreover, it can be recorded in different ways.

An application can be recorded based on your user experience, or just the backend code experience, or whether you want to record using a different technology, like a Java-specific recording, or a Siebel-specific recording. All of these different options and recording modes are available.

The scheduling feature is very helpful because it shows me time slots in calendar format where I can view all of the tests that are currently scheduled. It also displays what infrastructure is available to me to schedule a load test if I need to.

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The load testing, site scope monitoring, analysis, and graphs during execution are all useful features. It offers easy integration with third-party tools like Dynatrace, Splunk, etc. It also offers a customizable template for results. 

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The fact that you can have tens of thousands of virtual users and just expand an army of load generators to hammer on whatever application you're testing. It seems to be so scalable, and we haven't approached any limits. We have some projects that have over 100 load generators and they don't have many issues using the tool.

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Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise supports a lot of technologies. The existing performance testing that this tool is capable of is good. The protocols that are available are widely varied when compared to other performance testing tools. 

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For us, the features we value and use the most are web and HTTP support. It also has protocols that are easy to use, such as mainframe communication, and provides the ability to schedule functionalities.

For example, we've scheduled a week of performance testing, and when it runs, it does so without breaking. It then provides the resources available and analysis of the results of tests based on monitoring preferences.

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Our main use case for the product was load and stress testing. It helped us put the system under stress by injecting in multiple users, such as 5,000 users. 

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It provides a different platform for testing in an organized fashion. One of the big things is data warehousing, data analytics, you want to get from being reactive to proactive to predictive. Those are the progressions that we want to make. It's going to be extremely difficult when you start to incorporate testing platforms, testing techniques, to tooling, into pipeline, into any of these DevOps pipelines. If we can't collect the data, if we don't really know what's going on, then it becomes very hard to make testing decisions from tooling to technique to platforms. 

Performance Center innately provides you the ability to manage those assets. And it's also a different type of testing, independent of something that might be more unit based. We want to be able to test at the integration or the system level, which is a completely different approach to testing compared to a developer who may be doing something very, very low-level. Instead of changing the class.

We want to make sure that all these areas of testing are not just being done, but they're also able to be audited. Because, without access to the data, it makes it very difficult to implement solutions going forward. Whether they're new or they may be something that's up for modernization to keep up with DevOps and pipelining.

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What I really like is our team's core competence in building good tests that really do find issues, because of our full-time dedication to it. We have Performance Center as a platform to share with others that don't do performance testing full-time, so that they in an agile fashion, on demand can go ahead and get real issue-finding testing done; then to go ahead and have that pulled into trending reports so that even subtle differences or trends over time are found and not just game-changing defects. Again, it's a platform to get expert level things done for the masses.

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Performance Center, in our company, is used for important applications where we have a lot of users, or special needs for performance that are important.

We have a central team that implements the scripts and executes the tests. It depends on the years of experience of the users. The investment goes down, then we have more issues. Then money is spent and then investment goes up. So it is a curve. Everything is going up, as it is in ALM. ALM is still a growing market.

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The tool is very easy to set up and get running. 

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ALM centralizes everything. It allows you to work out how well you are doing project-wise because you see the number of scripts done, the number of tests run, and whether you have mapped all your requirements to it. You can produce metrics there fairly easily for your line management and higher. So, overall, it is better than people using Excel spreadsheets.

Performance Center is good because it allows you to share resources, which wasn't happening with Load Runner. With Load Runner, everyone was very specific. I've just got these controllers and their mine and I might only be using them five percent of the time but I need them tomorrow. And I can’t allow anyone else to use them because it will disrupt my schedule.

With Performance Center, you start to get into position where people can say, "I need to run a test, how many assets are available? When can I plan to do it?"
It also provides discipline because you stop getting people saying, "We're ready to do performance testing," because they've got to schedule the test. They've got to use that period when they've scheduled it. If they don't we pull it back and somebody else can use it. You get a lot of people screaming they've lost their slot but what you've proven to them is that they're not ready for performance testing.

It's very good from that point of view. It focuses people's minds on actually using their time effectively.

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• Integration with the majority of enterprise tools
• Scripting
• Reporting
• Admin Console
• Reporting & Analysis tool

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The most valuable features are the multiple schedule and load setup preferences in a test scenario. It is also flexible in scalability.

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• It helps you to build custom design application simulation models that enable the performance test engineer to assess an enterprise, multi-tier, heavily-distributed, high-traffic application on how the application for that particular release meets its non-functional test requirements and SLA thresholds, which are key business-transaction response times.
• It tell you your applications' CPU computational power usages under various conditions such as stress, volume, and scalability.
• Its distributed nature will let you choose load generators that can be geographically located anywhere, thus traffic simulations from multiple locations make it possible to create a real production scenario.
• The true advantage of Performance Center is the ability to enable multiple engineers to do design and validate their script locally, but to execute them globally by using global resources spread across an organization.
• The other advantage is the integration with HP SiteScope which lets you to perform deep-dive monitoring of your application under test during your test execution for live health analysis using several readily available monitoring templates.

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Performance of load test applications, reliably, and with good reporting.

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One of the things in the airline business, we see that our number of users varies on a day to day basis, from season to season. So, from an airline business standpoint, we are looking at scalability as one the major things and how can we adapt the solution in an agile fashion. If we want to ramp up the "Our Views" account, from, let's say 10,000 to 50,000, how can we do that? That kind of scalability is the main key thing we are looking at.

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High scalability. Web-based testing. The interface. If you're familiar with the days of using LoadRunner, when you had to have the 32-bit client, using a web-based client is fantastic. You can spin it up relatively quickly despite the fact that it's enterprise software. You can test a huge variety of applications, not just web-based systems, but SAP, Oracle, web services, pretty much anything out in the market place, but it's mobile-based testing.

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We still have a legacy LoadRunner, but we are moving towards this tool. For our web applications, we are moving towards Performance Center, because it is more GUI and user-friendly, and with all the latest technologies. It's pretty easy to learn how to use.

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Performance Center is actually run by a performance engineering group so in every release you have a performance engineering phase that runs at the same time as UAT. That's pretty much used to ensure that we're going to hit our production stability, scalability, etc., when a product finally goes in.

That is used in a phase gate, it's not continually run. That's one of the things we're eventually going to get to, that you continually run it.

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It's the most flexible and best solution for our people who are both offshore and onshore because of the reporting capabilities. When we hire new employees, we look for people who have used this tool for testing experience.

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We can centralize and execute various performance tests for business units across the globe.

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I think, for me, the most valuable part of the product is the way you can do the basic testing. You can create the test script and then simulate thousands of users very, very easily. Instead of having to have lots-and-lots of systems that would emulate users, you just needed a couple to emulate tens of thousands of users. So the scalability of LoadRunner while it was testing scalability is really valuable.  

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For me, it's the fact that I can train my team on a single tool. It really is kind of our Swiss Army Knife in that it can handle so many different types of protocols and technologies, and I don't have to train my team on multiple tools to handle each of those.

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I think the number one feature everybody likes is the capability to easily generate virtual users as well as the reporting. Recently, we are starting to look at things more from the diagnostic perspective as well as from the troubleshooting perspective. It gives us many more options for troubleshooting and presenting reports. The other reason why LoadRunner is quite popular for us is that it has a long track record. We know if we need to look for a solution we can still search and find a use case or a solution quite easily.

I like the new pricing model. It helps us to ramp up much better, especially when we were trying to use this for SaaS applications. They have a much more practical pricing model now. It allows us to break it down smaller and also build-up towards a price model that works for the client. I think that was a big bottleneck in the past — now it looks much better.

From a technical perspective, LoadRunner has always been good. You can trust that it can deliver. The big bottleneck in the past has always been the pricing model. Now, with the new approach, with the use of SaaS, we are currently in proposals to recommend LoadRunner as a solution for one of our government clients. We are doing an implementation there. 

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Probably its prime advantage, it provides a centralized location for testing.

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The most valuable features to us are--

• Ease of uploading the scripts, and
• Script maintenance.

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• Auto/manual correlation
• Test Analysis
• Test script customization
• Test scheduling

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Its integration with the Application Lifecycle Management platform makes it very flexible and easy to learn.

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LoadRunner Enterprise's most valuable features are load simulation and creating correlation for parameters.

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The solution is a very user-friendly tool, especially when you compare it to a competitor like BlazeMeter.

The custom meter is nice. It has a lot of features.

When compared with BlazeMeter, I use the plain data. In the cloud after one year it has been very good.

With reporting, we will see the door unlock on the main portal very quickly, because LoadRunner has very good analysis tools. You can analyze data and get the error data as well. You can merge them together and dig down into specific points of time. It's great for correlating drafts within the number of users, between accounts, and with support. These functionalities are not there in BlazeMeter.

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As a tool, it's something that we can use in all aspects of performance testing, whether it's services, whether it's web, whether it's customized APIs, like Citrix. It's the tool for performance testing, and it's definitely the industry leader that I've been using for years. It's a very powerful tool.

Truthfully, I think performance is a fairly mature space now. There are not too many things popping up that we're saying, "You know, Performance Center doesn't do X, Y or Z." It's a pretty mature tool and we're happy with it.

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It supports an extensive portfolio of protocols. It supports everything from the very basic web HTTP, which is kind of the bread and butter of load performance testing tools, to Citrix, Oracle, and even some Real X, and others. The breadth of the product is very valuable.

It is a very powerful tool. They pitch it as the market leader and it kind of is. It's that big “one-tool-fits-all” kind of option. You don't need to go and get several tools, each of which supports an individual kind of protocol. You can do pretty much everything on the entire stack with one tool. That makes it good.

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It helps us to test the performance of our applications at load, and what sets it apart is the number of types of applications that it covers from web to back office, and even mobile. Makes multiple protocols available to us.

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Performance Center allows multiple users to access and work on a project simultaneously. 

Additionally, it keeps a run log and allows for script and scenario versioning. 

I also like the scheduling feature that allows us to manage multiple projects using the same controller and load generators.

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This is a product that has a lot of capabilities and is the most mature tool of its kind in the market.

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The ability to monitor and restart load testing components remotely, and the scheduling feature.

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The UI itself is very user friendly. So even though I support six different applications, I don’t have to go back and re-teach myself.

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Using multiple controllers and using random LG’s for different executions with IP spoofing really helps to simulate realistic scenarios.

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• Ability to execute performance tests
• Live-screen display of test load runs
• Generation of performance test reports
• Live server-side performance metrics

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Overall, I am satisfied with this product.

All of the features are available with Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise.

The user interface is fine. It's intuitive.

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• Test and resource scheduling
• Test runs trending
• Network virtualization and the new NV Insights report
• Cloud integration
• New Web UI
• Jenkins integration
• Performance Application Lifecycle

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The most valuable feature is the enterprise card. It allows us to use our central software for all our testers who are located worldwide.

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• Analysis of results
• Schedule of test
• We can book load generators.
• We can choose LGs based on the required configuration. 
• IP Spoofing can be done using Performance Center.

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• Web interface, which can be used by multiple users from multiple locations
• Groups distribution
• Good for batch and timely executions
• Results in easier readable format
• Single license can be used optimally in different time zones for 300% ROI
• Multiple projects execution
• Time slot bookings for controller
• Optimal use of Load generator/injectors

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It gives us a run history of the tests we've planned and executed.

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The most valuable feature is the analysis tool. It enables me to make a good, detailed analysis after a test run.

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• Integrated Infrastructure
• Cloud load generators
• Analysis

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The controller and analysis engine are a piece of cake, configuring the scenario and gathering results are the most important to me.

From my 15 years experience, I measure that I spend only 5% of my time to script, other tasks are more consuming: understanding the business process, making the dataset relevant and reliable with workflow (with VTS for instance which is very great), finding how and what to measure and so on.

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The main features are the ability to customize the product configuration and the customization to adapt with the customer environment. Additionally, the product flexibility, and stability are also valuable.

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It isn't a very complex product to use. That's what I liked about it.

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• Analyzer
• Performance Center

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• Merging Graphs
• Layout management
• Measurement menu
• The new features are nice, like cloud testing, mobile testing, continuous testing, etc.

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• Enterprise-Level
• Centralized Platform
• Mobile
• Cloud
• CI
• Advanced Reporting
• Support

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