Yes its a SAAS offering you pay for monthly. Its a fine tool.
There are also many other options which might be less expensive or offer other features as well. It's always good to shop around.
Enterprise Test Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Consultant
Aug 14, 2017
Not sure what you mean by “as a service”; do you mean saas? If yes, that is exactly how it works. The load generators are hosted by Amazon, HP or Microsoft. It is also possible to setup load testing hosts in house and use them in your load test. Pricing information as well as tool purchase is online saas.hpe.com/buy/stormrunner-load If you cannot purchase online using a credit card, you can contact a HPE Vendor such as Avnet (www.avnet.com) with pertinent details of how many VU hours you require so that they are able to provide a quote and you can go through with a PO. Be sure to calculate VU hours (number of tests X duration of each test X number of virtual users) You will also need to know the type of VU (Web TruClient or Developer) Web TC will enable you to use the latest 12.53 TruClient protocol as well as standard http/html.
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Business Manager, DevOps Enablement at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Consultant
Aug 14, 2017
HPE, soon to be Microfocus provide a SaaS Performance Testing solution called StormRunner Load, this provides Virtual User Hour or Virtual User purchases for periods of time. This solution supports the common protocols. EOH have a Load runner in the Cloud solution, which is a service, that covers the full range of protocols.
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Yes, this is a SaaS offering. See: software.microfocus.com/en-us/products/stormrunner-load-agile-cloud-testing/pricing
It doesn’t have to be StormRunner specific. There should be SaaS option. Check it out with your local HPE rep.
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Yes its a SAAS offering you pay for monthly. Its a fine tool.
There are also many other options which might be less expensive or offer other features as well. It's always good to shop around.
Not sure what you mean by “as a service”; do you mean saas? If yes, that is exactly how it works. The load generators are hosted by Amazon, HP or Microsoft. It is also possible to setup load testing hosts in house and use them in your load test. Pricing information as well as tool purchase is online saas.hpe.com/buy/stormrunner-load If you cannot purchase online using a credit card, you can contact a HPE Vendor such as Avnet (www.avnet.com) with pertinent details of how many VU hours you require so that they are able to provide a quote and you can go through with a PO. Be sure to calculate VU hours (number of tests X duration of each test X number of virtual users) You will also need to know the type of VU (Web TruClient or Developer) Web TC will enable you to use the latest 12.53 TruClient protocol as well as standard http/html.
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Sri.
Yes, StormRunner is available as a service.
It can be bought online or by reaching out to our sales team.
You can check payment and contact details here: saas.hpe.com/buy/stormrunner-load
You can also sign up to a free trial first, to make sure it fits your needs: saas.hpe.com/try/stormrunner-load
StormRunner Load is SaaS solution. Here is a link with the pricing saas.hpe.com/en-us/buy/stormrunner-load
More details and free trial here saas.hpe.com/en-us/software/stormrunner-load
If you have more questions, feel free to contact me itzik.gb@hpe.com
HPE, soon to be Microfocus provide a SaaS Performance Testing solution called StormRunner Load, this provides Virtual User Hour or Virtual User purchases for periods of time. This solution supports the common protocols. EOH have a Load runner in the Cloud solution, which is a service, that covers the full range of protocols.