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it_user968487 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architecte principal at Cimpa
Real User
The controller and analysis engine are a piece of cake

What is our primary use case?

Even if the protocol and API doesn't cover your need, you can always find a solution. That means you can always handle any situation with a piece of code, whatever the target application is.

How has it helped my organization?

For me, it's the best product for a performance team covering a large range of technologies and constraints.

What is most valuable?

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.

What needs improvement?

Some features could sometimes disappear without reason. It's extremely recommended to take time to evaluates newer versions before upgrading.

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For how long have I used the solution?

More than five years.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Performance Tester at Tech Mahindra
Real User
Can book load generators and do IP Spoofing
Pros and Cons
  • "We are delivering fine performance results and performance recommendations using Performance Center."
  • "IP Spoofing can be done using Performance Center."
  • "We can book load generators."
  • "More real-time monitoring should be available for the system under test."
  • "Dashboard creation should be implemented, so we can get the results in a desired format."

What is our primary use case?

We have used Performance Center for Java and .NET applications performance testing with a user load of 2000 users.

How has it helped my organization?

It has improved our organizational performance. We are delivering fine performance results and performance recommendations using Performance Center.

What is most valuable?

  • 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.

What needs improvement?

  • Monitoring tools which are available in Performance Center.
  • More real-time monitoring should be available for the system under test. 
  • Dashboard creation should be implemented, so we can get the results in a desired format.

For how long have I used the solution?

Three to five years.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Enterprise)
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it_user854211 - PeerSpot reviewer
TE at Infosys Technologies Ltd
Real User
Mostly user-friendly and usable, though tough to maintain from the infrastructure side
Pros and Cons
  • "It is mostly user-friendly and usable."
  • "It is also good for reporting purposes, which would be most familiar for QC and UFT users."
  • "It is tough to maintain from the infrastructure side."

I use Performance Center for PC testing. It is mostly user-friendly and usable, though tough to maintain from the infrastructure side. 

It is also good for reporting purposes, which would be most familiar for QC and UFT users.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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QA Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Consultant
Provides the performance of load test applications and reliably on good reporting
Pros and Cons
  • "Support is nice, quick, and responsive."
  • "We implemented through the vendor, who used highly-skilled professionals."
  • "Provides the performance of load test applications and reliably on good reporting."
  • "New features have been added in latest version and need to be improved with the DevOps integration."
  • "We are expecting more flexible to use Jenkins in continuous integration going forward."

What is our primary use case?

Using the ALM Performance Center resource monitors, you can monitor Windows, UNIX, SiteScope, and SNMP servers on a machine during the test run and determine why a bottleneck occurred on a particular machine. Provides the performance of load test applications and reliably on good reporting.

How has it helped my organization?

It is used to empower our organisation in assisting customers, addressing their concerns, finding solutions, and providing value, thus making it possible to put customer success first, and in the process, focus on the business.

What is most valuable?

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

What needs improvement?

  • New features have been added in latest version and need to be improved with the DevOps integration.
  • We are expecting more flexible to use Jenkins in continuous integration going forward. 

For how long have I used the solution?

Three to five years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

No issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No scalability issues.

How are customer service and technical support?

Support is nice, quick, and responsive.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

For a long time, we have been using HPE tools only.

How was the initial setup?

It is straightforward.

What about the implementation team?

We implemented through the vendor, who used highly-skilled professionals. 

What was our ROI?

ROI is 200%.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

It is a bit expensive when compared with other tools.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We evaluated LoadRunner.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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it_user590508 - PeerSpot reviewer
R&D Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Vendor
We easily managed to run load tests of 100K concurrent Vusers on our web application, so scalability was not an issue

What is most valuable?

  • 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

How has it helped my organization?

  • It made performance testing for global teams work more natural.
  • Performance Application Lifecycle allowed us to really build our load test according to the traffic we see in production.
  • Trending shows us exactly the performance impact of our latest software changes.
  • Using Jenkins, we managed to automate our performance testing as part of the CI.

What needs improvement?

Features in the Web UI should be enhanced. We should be able to do everything from the Web UI. without ever needing to download the old ActiveX ALM UI.

For how long have I used the solution?

Four years.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

No issues.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

No issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We easily managed to run load tests of 100K concurrent Vusers on our web application, so scalability was not an issue for us.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

An eight out of 10.

Technical Support:

A seven out of 10.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I did not rate other solutions.

How was the initial setup?

Pretty straightforward.

What about the implementation team?

In-house.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We considerd SOASTA CloudTest.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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it_user487383 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
It provides a centralized location for testing
Pros and Cons
  • "​Probably its prime advantage, it provides a centralized location for testing."
  • "On the newer versions, I think the bleeding edge is still being worked on."

What is most valuable?

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

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability on the old versions is good. On the newer versions, I think the bleeding edge is still being worked on.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is very scalable. No issues with scalability.

How is customer service and technical support?

Premium support is great, but before that, when we just had general support, it was not all that great. We had issues with just trying to get support to call us back on tickets and also with the turnaround time on resolution.

How was the initial setup?

It is not exactly straightforward. Their instructions were not all they could have been, but we still got it installed.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Test Management Architect at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Provides testing at the integration or system level and the data to make testing decisions

What is most valuable?

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.

What needs improvement?

It has to be fully integrated into pipelines, it needs to be DevOps friendly. It needs to be easily digestible by management, and certainly developers. It's a developers' world, as it should be. They're the ones who create the applications and solve the problems in those applications. So it has to be positioned to be something that allows a team to make better decisions, to move through that progress I mentioned before, from reactive to proactive to predictive. Once you get the predictive you can make better decisions on how you should be teasing things, and Performance Center will have to follow the same trajectory. It has value, but the value needs to evolve and mature along with other aspects of application development.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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it_user739596 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of QA at a insurance company
Real User
Covers a number of types of applications from web to back office and mobile

What is most valuable?

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.

How has it helped my organization?

It gives us advanced reporting. Allows us to compare performance as we make application changes, and scale to the level that we need as a large organization.

What needs improvement?

I'd like to see feedback from production, to see what scenarios to run, and even better integrations into some other products such as AppDynamics.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using LoadRunner for some 15 to 18 years personally, but at the company I'm at, for about six months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Yes, I would say it is stable. We haven't had a problem with stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I believe it will meet our needs into the future. We heard today that you can scale up to 2,000,000 users even with the sister product, which is StormRunner. We haven't had any issues with scalability.

How is customer service and technical support?

We use a third-party for tech support and they do a great job.

How was the initial setup?

Straightforward. Very easy to do.

What other advice do I have?

I think it's the best product out there for performance and load testing.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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