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.
The tool family has recently been rebranded, so it’s a great time to take stock of the new names, what’s available and how they can help drive your business forward. With that in mind, today’s insight contains five recent enhancements in the following OpenText tools:
- Core Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Cloud)
- Professional Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Professional)
- Enterprise Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Enterprise)
- Performance Engineering for Developers (LoadRunner Developer)
1. TruClient 2.0: Next-Gen Browser Testing
One of the most transformative enhancements in OpenText’s performance engineering suite is the evolution of TruClient, now at version 2.0.
Unlike traditional protocol-level performance testing tools that only measure server-side response times, TruClient enables true end-to-end performance testing by operating at the browser level.
This means it doesn’t just capture how quickly your server responds, but also how long it takes for a page to fully load and render on a user’s device, including all client-side processing, graphical rendering, and JavaScript execution.
TruClient 2.0 is now generally available and offers browser-driven testing decoupled from browser releases. It supports Windows and Linux, reducing infrastructure costs and making it easier to keep up with browser updates.
Migration utilities let you update existing TruClient scripts to version 2.0, enabling you to benefit from the latest features, avoiding the need to rescript.
2. Cloud and Infrastructure Improvements
The latest releases have significantly broadened the geographic reach and flexibility of cloud-based testing. OpenText now supports over 48 global cloud regions on Amazon, Azure and Google Cloud.
This allows teams to simulate user traffic from the regions most relevant to their business and customers, creating more realistic and actionable performance insights.
In addition, users now have the flexibility to choose whether scripts run on cloud or on-premises load generators by default, giving them greater control over test execution environments and costs.
3. Powerful Analytics and Observability
The OpenText performance test tools have long provided seamless integration with leading observability platforms like Datadog, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and Grafana.
They now support OpenTelemetry, allowing you to push telemetry data from your performance tests directly into any OpenTelemetry-compliant observability solution. This means you can correlate load test data with application metrics and infrastructure logs in real time, dramatically improving your ability to diagnose and resolve performance issues.
The native integration with Datadog has also been expanded, enabling teams to bring Datadog metrics directly into their performance dashboards and to support additional Datadog regions.
4. Developer and Automation Features
To support modern DevOps practices, OpenText has introduced new automation-friendly features.
The suite now offers a silent mode command-line interface, which allows tests to run without any interactive prompts—perfect for integrating into CI/CD pipelines and automated workflows.
Support for JMeter 5.6 has been added, enabling teams to use the latest open-source scripts. Users can now view .csv file contents directly within Enterprise Performance Engineering, streamlining test data management.
By the way, if you currently use JMeter scripts to performance test your solutions, it’s incredibly easy to use these scripts within OpenText performance tools and doing so lets unlock all the benefits of class-leading professional performance tools.
5. User Experience and Accessibility
The user interface has been modernised with redesigned navigation, onboarding, and test initialisation windows, making the tools more intuitive for new and experienced users.
Accessibility has also been prioritised, with login and other key pages now conforming to VPAT accessibility standards, ensuring the tools are easier for everyone.
See These Features For Yourself
OpenText’s performance engineering tools help teams of all sizes build faster, more reliable applications—whether you’re running a quick test from your IDE or coordinating a global load test across cloud regions.
If you haven’t explored these new features yet, now is the perfect time to see how OpenText’s performance engineering suite can elevate your testing strategy and keep you ahead of the curve in 2025!
