Four years ago, I wrote about how LoadRunner Cloud was debunking the myth that open-source is cheaper. At the time, LoadRunner Cloud’s pay-as-you-go pricing, bundled infrastructure, and rapid setup were already making it a compelling alternative to JMeter and similar tools.
OpenText’s performance test tools—formerly the LoadRunner family—are continuously improving. Over the last few years, they’ve been enhanced with new features to help your teams deliver responsive, resilient applications with an excellent user experience.
Despite what some might think, LoadRunner is not a single performance testing tool but a family of world-class load performance testing solutions. The family has recently undergone a name change that you may not be familiar with. Today, I will explain why LoadRunner family products are relied on by the largest companies.
Today we look at OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise 24.3, which introduced several enhancements to their enterprise-grade performance testing solution. We’ve been through the release notes so you don’t have to.
OpenText has released LoadRunner Cloud 24.4, The latest version of their class-leading SaaS performance test tool. We’ve been through the release notes and selected 3 things you need to know about this and other recent LoadRunner releases.
The people at BlazeMeter are comparing their solution against the wrong version of LoadRunner. This is a deliberate attempt to obscure their actual competition: LoadRunner Cloud.
Applications must handle whatever users throw, especially peak loads. After all, by definition, this is the point at which your system is exposed to the most users, and you have the most to lose.
TruClient significantly speeds up the script creation process and allows you to capture true end-to-end application performance, including protocol level and front-end performance, e.g. how long screens or pages load.
SaaS performance tools remove most setup headaches, giving you access to pre-configured cloud-based performance infrastructure. No more setting up load injectors or installing controllers. Instead, you just log on and choose where in the world you want to run your tests.
Performance testing is more challenging than ever. Technology is more complex, customer expectations are higher, and an increasing number of people and departments need to be involved to make performance testing effective. This article shines a light on strategies to help you execute successful performance test cycles in 2024.
Performance tool cost is likely to be less than 10% of the performance testing budget, yet many still think that slashing this figure saves money. Common sense tells us that if you do not spend on quality tools, you will spend more on people. In this insight, I look at why investment in professional performance test tools is so important.
Choosing the right performance test tool will save you time, money and effort. Choosing the wrong one will give you expensive headaches, drain your resources, and might not even tell you when you have a performance problem.
Did you know that most LoadRunner Professional licenses are only valid for a specific location? This means that (unless you’ve bought the country or worldwide usage add-on) working from home, other offices or geographic locations is prohibited and doing so could incur financial penalties.
There is often an underlying and unspoken fear with software systems: How resilient is your solution to unexpected outages and system failures? Sure, you’ve tested your solution’s functionality and performance, but have you tested against system outages? This is where chaos testing comes in.
The performance of your website or application is often the deciding factor between a satisfied customer and an angry ex-customer. If you don’t test performance adequately, you leave your solution’s success to little more than chance.
Recently, OpenText (formerly Micro Focus) unveiled LoadRunner Cloud 2023.07. This edition is brimming with new features and advancements to help make your performance testing process simpler and more effective than ever.
A delve into seven important performance testing trends that will help you deliver high-quality, responsive solutions in 2023 and beyond.
Whatever you think of AI chatbots, there’s no denying they’re making an impression. Find out how ChatGPT compares a handful of major performance test tools – in the form of a Rap Battle!
LoadRunner Professional (LRP) and LoadRunner Enterprise (LRE) are part of the LoadRunner family of four performance testing tools. As a result of frequent conversations with various people, I’ve realised that many are unaware of the differences between these two tools.
OpenText (previously Micro Focus) has released LoadRunner Professional 2023. The latest version of their class-leading performance test tool.
It’s generally accepted that maintaining a thorough and robust test lab is prohibitively expensive and time-consuming. Well, there is now a simple way to make it much easier and cheaper…
This news is hot off the press, LoadRunner VUDs are back! The new version of VUDs, known as VUFDs, allows you to buy Vusers by the day.
In days gone by, every software tester knew about the Micro Focus test tools. Maybe they knew them as the Mercury Tools, the HP tools, or maybe by their product names – LoadRunner, WinRunner, QTP, TestDirector, Quality Center etc.
These days, it’s not so cut and dry.
A quick overview of the tools available.
Choosing the right performance testing tool can be a challenging task for any organisation. With so many options available in the market, it can be difficult to determine which tool will best meet the specific needs of your organisation and will grow with you over time. As a leading provider
LoadRunner Cloud is a performance testing solution for web, mobile, GUI, SAP, Oracle and more. It includes cloud-hosted load generators, flexible licensing models, and global accessibility. All for one inclusive price. As with all Micro Focus products though, LoadRunner Cloud has a strong development backlog. The latest release, LoadRunner Cloud 2022.10, includes
Until last year, LoadRunner Virtual User Days (VUDs) were a convenient and cost-effective way to buy Vusers. VUDs allowed companies to easily ramp up Vuser numbers or run project-based Performance Testing. Unfortunately, Micro Focus stopped selling VUDs in July 2021. We want to know, are you missing them? What Were
On July 1st, Micro Focus announced the product obsolescence of SilkPeformer, the software performance and load testing tool. SilkPerformer customers who are under support have an upgrade path to the class-leading LoadRunner Professional performance testing tool. While SilkPerformer has a rich history going back a couple of decades, this is
I’m going to let you into a little secret about web application performance testing. It doesn’t always do what you probably think it does. More specifically, the figures you get back aren’t always the full story. Sure, performance testing will let you see how quickly your systems are responding. However, it won’t
I’ve been involved in performance testing for 3 decades. During that time, it has evolved massively and continues to change. If you’re a newbie, performance testing can be a tough subject to get your head around. Increasingly, I talk to people at companies who’ve never done proper performance testing, but
Micro Focus has released LoadRunner Professional 2022. The latest version of their class-leading performance test tool. We’ve been through the release notes and selected 3 things you need to know about LoadRunner Professional 2022. If you’re not familiar with LoadRunner Professional, it waspreviously called simply LoadRunner. It has a rich and
Bang!! All of a sudden, one of your production servers goes down. What happens next? How does your system respond? Fortunately, the outage was only in your test environment, at least this time. It was introduced randomly, but deliberately, by chaos engineering. To understand the need for chaos testing, it’s
These days, systems need to be ultra-responsive. You don’t have the time to wait, and neither do your customers and end-users. In this high-speed world, software performance is a must, not a nice-to-have. In the past, you could get away with running a quick performance cycle at the end of a
Micro Focus has announced the end of Virtual User Days (VUDs) for LoadRunner Professional and LoadRunner Enterprise. This blog will cover everything you need to know, including: If you use LoadRunner Virtual User Days (VUD’s) to performance test, then read on… 1. This is Not the End of LoadRunner This is
BlazeMeter and LoadRunner Cloud appear similar on the surface: They’re Both SaaS performance test tools, they both run JMeter, Gatling and other common scripts, and they both provide more than enough concurrent users for most needs. But how do they compare to each other? And more importantly… which one should you
LoadRunner Cloud is already a fantastic performance testing solution. It already has cloud-hosted load generators, flexible licensing models, and global accessibility. As with all Micro Focus products though, LoadRunner Cloud has a strong development backlog. The latest release, LoadRunner Cloud 2021.04, includes some noteworthy additions… LoadRunner Cloud 2021.04 – Release Highlights Released
Performance needs to be built into your software as early as you possibly can. LoadRunner Developer makes this easy. Performance is critical to the success of your software solution, but it can’t just be bolted on at the end. A stitch in time saves nine, and solution performance is no
When you think LoadRunner, you think expensive. It’s a knee-jerk reaction. You’re used to buying bundles of virtual users and paying a lot for them. Conversely, when you think of open-source tools like Jmeter, you think free. But is this true? Open Source Costs More Than You Expect In reality,
When it comes to SAP Testing, Micro Focus have a longer history than any toolset. Due to new commercial agreement though, SAP can’t sell the Micro Focus Tools via SaaS. This begs lots of questions: The simple answer is this, don’t worry! Micro Focus SaaS – Still THE choice for SAP
No matter which Test Tools you end up choosing, you’ll inevitably come across the Micro Focus suite. They’re the industry standard and with good reason. Micro Focus makes the test tools that all others are compared against. Think Photoshop, Microsoft Office or Google. Sure, there are alternatives, but these are the most important tools
The UCAS Track system crashed today – Retailers, the actual Black Friday is coming up fast – Are you ready? For those who don’t know, today is A-Level results day. My daughter was one of those affected, along with 250,000 others. To give some context, her results will determine the course
We should be used to Black Friday. The imported sales spectacular has taken hold of the UK over the last few years… but we STILL see crashes! We know when it’s coming, we know it will stress our systems, we know that we’ll miss out if we’re not ready… but
LoadRunner, it’s the industry standard performance test tool. The best of breed that all others are compared to. LoadRunner is more than just a single product Micro Focus have consolidated 3 of their performance testing tools under the LoadRunner banner, each with a different focus and price point. They are:
Micro Focus have announced LoadRunner Professional and VuGen, version 2020 service pack 2 (SP2). This is a major new release and comes with a substantial set of release notes. We’ve looked through these and pulled out our top 5 release highlights: If you’re interested in the full release note, you’ll find
You want to performance test your solution quickly, efficiently AND you want to keep the cost down. You’ve had a look at the options and JMeter is coming out the winner. JMeter is open source after all, so it’s the obvious choice. Right? Well is it? What is LoadRunner Cloud?
The facts: “Web performance and load test functionality in Visual Studio is deprecated. Visual Studio 2019 will be the last version of Visual Studio containing web performance and load test features.” “Coded UI Test for automated UI-driven functional testing is deprecated. Visual Studio 2019 is the last version where Coded
StormRunner Load just got better – version 3.7 is now available. FYI – LoadRunner Cloud is the new name for StormRunner Load. StormRunner Load is based on LoadRunner technology and can be considered to be LoadRunner in the cloud. With new versions every 2-3 months StormRunner Load is maintaining its position as one
Finding the latest information on software products is often harder than it should be. Micro Focus have made it early to find the latest information on all their ADM (Application Development Management) tools. The Help Center is a great way to research and understand each tools capabilities. In my
How do you choose the right Performance Testing tool? Ensuring that it will not only be fit for purpose, but also still be useful in the future. Before you buy a Performance Tool, spend some time thinking about the tool you need. So that you avoid a costly mistake.
How do you get the testing tools you need without cutting corners. We all know that there is pressure to use free or cheap tools, however, are they really what you need? Will they help you do the job well or will you have to work round there short comings
Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals is one of the most regulated industries, with high complexity. Therefore, it’s critical to manage risk and implement a robust change management system. However, achieving and maintaining regulatory compliance creates high overhead. To remain competitive, using Agile software development has become a trend. Read how Micro Focus Application Development Management
Website crashes due to a surge in demand online are often associated with retailers and Black Friday or Cyber Monday However, your website could still be vulnerable even if you don’t sell online! In my video ‘What is your Black Friday?’, you’ll discover when you need to worry about unusually
In 2017 Black Friday generated £1.39bn for UK retailers and this year is set to top that! But is your website ready for the increase in demand? Last year a big-name retailer had major website problems on the day because of the increase in demand, losing revenue and damaging
The Top 5 Performance Testing tools is always hotly debated. IT Central Station and IDG have go together to list their top 5 Performance Testing tools. Learn about the top 5 based on buyer intend and reviews. Technology innovation is relentless. See who has broken into this highly contended
It’s Black Friday. You are expecting a surge of traffic to your online shop….. And hopefully, a surge of sales and profit as well. But when shoppers arrive at your site, ready to buy, they are forced into a queuing system with a recurring 30-second countdown message, that says: “We’re
Your new company website is close to launch, when concerns are raised that it is not scaling properly. As the website is business-critical, this is potentially a serious failing which could impact revenue and credibility. Unfortunately, your existing performance tool is not up to the job (maybe you don’t have
With more than 50% of internet traffic coming from mobile devices, how can you ensure your application deliver the quality, speed and security mobile and tablet users demand? Mobile users judge their experience based on the speed of the app, the quality of service and perception of security – regardless
It’s only natural that you have high expectations when you buy software to improve your testing. You want to improve your ability to test and to make life easier. You may be expecting to get greater traceability, visibility, test coverage, more automation, to save time – or all of these.
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