2018-11-29T16:56:00Z

What needs improvement with Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise?

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
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DS
Real User
Top 10
2023-10-26T07:23:00Z
Oct 26, 2023

OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise needs to improve reporting.

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LS
Real User
Top 20
2023-10-20T20:10:00Z
Oct 20, 2023

The tool must improve the ease of gathering and reporting when larger datasets are generated. It must provide better and more direct information. There's a lot of digging around to try and address issues when they arise. Anytime we bring up a window, and it's waiting to do something, it must give a visual indication that it's doing something.

Greg Griffiths - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2023-10-20T19:58:00Z
Oct 20, 2023

After they get over the acquisition, the first improvement is going to be tailoring it for their existing stack of other products. How would LoadRunner work for Documentum? How would it work for Business Network? How would it work for other apps? They can have a pre-package or a guide because they are all in the same family as opposed to being outside. When I spoke to the LoadRunner guys, I said, "You are not a part of the family. You have a simple content server test pack, and you have some accelerators that will get me going with your LoadRunner on another OpenText product." They said, "We just started building those because we have just formally become part of the family." That is going to come out. That is going to add value as I roll out LoadRunner and put it on the mix for other customers and new prospects. When those accelerators are there, I would trust them more. I trusted it previously when they were outside or not inside the box. Now that they are both inside the box, I am expecting synergy to be there.

JB
Real User
Top 20
2023-10-20T19:54:00Z
Oct 20, 2023

The process of upgrading LoadRunner can be difficult and time-consuming.

JR
Real User
Top 20
2023-10-20T19:27:00Z
Oct 20, 2023

OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise doesn't support some mainframe protocols. We had to build scripts to access the interface.

Gopal Bansal - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2023-10-20T18:24:00Z
Oct 20, 2023

The debugging feature needs to include graphs.

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reviewer9286520 - PeerSpot reviewer
User
Top 20
2023-09-29T07:31:00Z
Sep 29, 2023

The last few years I haven't seen the need for any improvements to the tool other than fancy stuff or maybe moving from client-server to PC or LoadRunner enterprise. There are a lot of tools in the market nowadays where you don't need to spend much time on scripting. Focus on improving the scripless capabilities. There is not much value added when upgrading/migrating from older versions to newer versions. OpenText should focus on important features and make end-users like us go for Loadrunner/OpenText products as soon as they are in the market.

Deepak Dhar - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5
2023-08-29T03:21:00Z
Aug 29, 2023

Offering a direct integration feature would ensure a completely smooth experience. Until now, we had to use different tools running in the back to get a perfectly detailed analysis.

AA
Real User
Top 20
2023-05-16T05:58:00Z
May 16, 2023

The solution should increase the free users limit to 500 for all Micro Focus products.

PS
Real User
Top 20
2023-03-29T15:28:38Z
Mar 29, 2023

Some areas for improvement in the solution are mainly based on the fact that right now, in the market, there are emerging low-code or no-code platforms, like NeoLoad. In Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise, we have to work on scripting. So, I need a skillful resource if I want to hire anyone. In the case of NeoLoad, a low-code environment, and platform, I don't have to search for a skilled resource. I can provide cross-skill training to the existing workforce, and they can work for me. In Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise, I need to spend a lot of time training people, while on other low-code or no-code platforms, I need not invest that much time.

RM
Real User
Top 5
2023-01-25T14:02:07Z
Jan 25, 2023

The solution can be improved by adding more AI to the True Client feature. The cost of the solution is high and can be improved.

Ashok Kumar K - PeerSpot reviewer
MSP
Top 20
2022-10-24T18:01:08Z
Oct 24, 2022

While they keep on working on improving the tool level, the tool has instability in terms of loading and processing. There are a lot of times hanging issues up until version 11 or 11.2. After that, the productions are pretty stable. They changed the GUI. They had wanted to change the GUI to improve the look and feel. However, since that time, we see a lot of hanging issues. The implementation process can be a bit complex. Even with 15 years of experience, I have trouble finding things. They need to make scalability functionality better. We've raised hundreds of bugs in the Ajax TruClient protocol. I don't know how they are doing testing. However, they should test it in other scenarios. When you're releasing a protocol, the test coverage should be more. They need to do a better job at releasing a full product instead of releasing something half-done and fixing it along the way. The solution is expensive.

CB
Real User
Top 5
2022-10-08T12:02:39Z
Oct 8, 2022

The solution can be improved by making it more user-friendly, and by including autocorrelation capability.

YB
Real User
2022-08-16T06:02:00Z
Aug 16, 2022

We'd like the product to include protocol identifiers whenever a tester wants to test a new application. They need to at least capture traffic and analyze and send a recommended protocol. They should give insights (passed/failed) with throughput achievable of the load test based on the throughput and errors in our previous tests without using the trend option for load tests.

GP
Real User
Top 5
2022-07-05T06:33:22Z
Jul 5, 2022

LoadRunner Enterprise's reporting should be quicker, easier, and more flexible.

Gopabandhu Patra - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 20
2022-03-30T07:10:18Z
Mar 30, 2022

Right now, we are in research mode, and we are yet to adopt the solution. The installation has not been straightforward, and we have had so many problems. We have had to re-install, try to install on a different machine, etc. We have not been able to launch the LRE server itself yet. It's not a consistent solution. Sometimes, it's executes well, and at other times, graphics will not show up, or we'll need to restart the services, for example. If I change my host controller, then my graphical report goes missing. I'd like to see this improved so that the graphical report is brought to the analysis. Only the LRE server is codable to give the HTML report. Also, instead of uploading the script, it would be good to have a check-in/checkout option. At present, because the script is uploaded, the version control is missing. Version control sessions would be nice to have as well.

MA
Real User
2022-03-14T16:07:20Z
Mar 14, 2022

I believe the data that demonstrates the automated correlations should be corrected. In addition, because it requires a lot of hardware, true client-based scripting should be improved. That needs to be improved.

GaneshMuralidharan - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-03-09T14:27:57Z
Mar 9, 2022

Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise needs to add more features for Citrix performance-based applications testing. This was one of the challenges we observed. Additionally, we experienced some APIs challenges.

NK
Real User
2021-06-15T17:08:00Z
Jun 15, 2021

It would be good if we could look forward at the future technology needs we have. I would like to see Micro Focus provide more customer awareness around how LoadRunner can fulfill requirements with Big Data use cases, for example, where you do performance testing at the scale of data lakes. That also applies to when we need to deal with applications that are adopting the latest technologies, where our company doesn't have a footprint. It would help us to have a better view and be prepared to address those requirements efficiently. The Micro Focus team has done a good job of introducing us to product owners and product managers, and in talking about the upcoming roadmap and features of the tool. That's been quite good. But when it comes to technologies our company has yet to adopt, I would like to see an indication from Micro Focus of how one does performance testing and what kinds of challenges can we foresee. Those kinds of studies would really help us.

NJ
Real User
2021-05-24T17:46:00Z
May 24, 2021

Something that is missing is a platform where I can share practices with my team. I would like to be able to inform my team members of specific best practices, but at this point, I can only share scripts and stuff like that with them. Having a private community for my own team, where I can share information about best practices and skills, would be helpful. Micro Focus needs to improve in terms of support. With the same support plan but when the product was owned by HP, support was more responsive and better coordinated. The monitoring and related analytical capabilities for load tests should be brought up to industry standards. This product integrates well with tools like Dynatrace and AppDynamics but having the built-in functionality improved would be a nice thing to have.

SA
Real User
2020-10-30T15:54:20Z
Oct 30, 2020

I think LoadRunner is still getting into grips with me — maybe, I've not used it that much. It's not that popular on the cloud. Also, we have not tried this on mobile platforms with mobile virtual users.

LW
MSP
2020-10-08T07:25:00Z
Oct 8, 2020

The reporting has room for improvement.

DC
Reseller
Top 5
2020-09-03T07:49:42Z
Sep 3, 2020

To improve the product, I think the integrations could be a little bit more slick. It does handle a lot of great integrations, but then some of them can be a little bit clunky to implement. The integration with third-party tools needs to be stepped up a little bit. As far as other things that need to be added, it has changed quite a lot recently, and I have not had vast amounts of experience with the latest version. So I am afraid it would not be fair for me to go further in expounding on that question. Things that I talk about may already have been included.

MA
Real User
2020-06-17T10:56:04Z
Jun 17, 2020

In the DevOps model, performance testing has become a bottleneck. This is because, after the completion of a sprint, people are in a hurry to send it to production but it first needs performance testing. Whenever there is a code change, it takes a lot of time to rescript and debug the script. The TruClient protocol works well but it takes a lot of memory to run those tests, which is something that can be improved. Basically, it is too resource-intensive. Performance testing needs to be better integrated into an agile framework. There should be a way of automatically increasing the load generators on the cloud, without specifically having to spin up the agent and configure it. There is a third-party tool that does this.

LW
MSP
2020-02-16T08:27:36Z
Feb 16, 2020

When you are looking at what areas of the product have room for improvement, it depends on the various clients that you have and when the new operating systems come out. It can get interesting. It would be nice to know how much GPU memory we are using because the data points are not there or it's hard to read. Also, it would nice to know what the network saturation levels are. It doesn't do that, although that is not what it was designed to do. We use it with another tool that can gather that information and provide us with the data points.

RR
Real User
2020-02-16T08:27:34Z
Feb 16, 2020

The solution is a very expensive tool when compared with other tools. The stability in some of the latest versions has not been ideal. They need to work to fix it so that it becomes reliably stable again. The cloud solution of LoadRunner is not user-friendly when compared to BlazeMeter. They need to improve their cloud offering in order to compete. It also shouldn't be a standalone tool.

RM
Real User
2019-11-13T05:28:00Z
Nov 13, 2019

One thing that always fails at our company is that after you have checked in an application then it usually crashes in some way. You get some strange error message. We found out you can open the test you have set up and usually, it works without the error the second time. So you just close the application test and open it again, and then it is okay. So that is quite confusing if you are new to the product, but you do not care about the inconvenience or even notice it after using the tool for a while. It does not seem very professional and it is really a buggy behavior that should be fixed. One feature I would like to see included in the next release of Performance Center would be to be able to run more fluidly with True Client so you could put more virtual users in Performance Center. That would help. I'm not sure how easy it is to compile something like that, but it would be valuable.

it_user968487 - PeerSpot reviewer
User
2018-11-29T16:56:00Z
Nov 29, 2018

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

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