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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    LoadRunner Professional

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AA solution simplifies performance load testing for colocated teams. With project-based capabilities, so teams can quickly identify abnormal application behavior.N/A

    OpenText UFT Digital Lab

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AFormerly from Micro Focus, a centralized lab of real mobile devices and emulators. With remote access, developers and testers can develop, debug, test, monitor, and optimize mobile apps from anywhere.N/A
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Chose OpenText UFT Digital Lab
    We selected UFT Mobile mainly for its easy tie-in to our existing automation and other tools we use from Micro Focus. We did briefly look at some other options, but the ability to instantly tie in, and also allow future changes (if we desired) like Appium.
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    Features
    LoadRunner ProfessionalOpenText UFT Digital Lab
    Load Testing
    Comparison of Load Testing features of OpenText LoadRunner Professional and OpenText UFT Digital Lab
    Feature
    OpenText LoadRunner Professional
    8.4
    6 Ratings
    0% below category average
    OpenText UFT Digital Lab
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    Ratings
    End to end performance management9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrated performance data10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deployment model flexibility9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Real time monitoring6.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated anomaly detection8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    LoadRunner ProfessionalOpenText UFT Digital Lab
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    LoadRunner ProfessionalOpenText UFT Digital Lab
    Likelihood to Recommend
    OpenText
    Micro Focus LoadRunner and its suite of tools, specifically VuGen works wonderfully for us for all web, http/https and web service calls. We've been able to build tests for near any scenario we need with relative ease. As long as we have crafted up requirements for our scenarios / scripts to managed scope, we've had high success working with scripting and data driving. Our main tests are web service calls - typically chained together to form a full scenario with transactions measuring the journey or a similar (measure along the way) journey through a browser. For web services we will use VuGen and browser we've shifted to Tru Client I have had little-to-no experience scripting against a thick client where a ui-driven test would be required. I know its possible but quite costly due to the need to run the actual desktop client to drive tests. We've been fortunate enough to leverage http calls to represent client traffic.
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    OpenText
    UFT mobile works really well if/when you need physical devices under your management. Managing physical devices in any setup is an interesting undertaking due to the various considerations per device. There are really nice best practices, for example using managed USB switches like the one from Cambrionix, that can help make for a really good experience. For us, we only have 1 application at this time that has frequent updates/releases. We are able to test out these with confidence using our suite of real/on-campus devices managed and made available by the UFT Mobile product.
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    Pros
    OpenText
    • It can simulate multiple users at the same time and help understand the performance.
    • It can generate excellent reports and give insights into application performance.
    • It is a fast tool and does not take time to perform its functions.
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    OpenText
    • Remote access to real devices within your organization network as compared to public devices library offering, where their is a risk of exposing pre-production builds outside the organization.
    • "Factory built like" integration with HP ALM, HP Sprinter, HP UFT and HP Network Virtualization.
    • Ability to mimic real world conditions in a controlled environment in the devices of your choice.
    • Removed the guess work out of using emulators
    • Able to extend automation to mobile testing using HP UFT.
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    Cons
    OpenText
    • HP LoadRunner with new patches and releases sometimes makes no longer support older version of various protocols like Citrix, which makes the task time-consuming when using older versions of LoadRunner for some of the cases. So it should support older version as well while upgrading.
    • Configuring HP LoadRunner over the firewall involves lots of configuration and may be troublesome. So, there should be a script (power shell script for Windows or shell script for Linux users) to make it easy to use and with less pain.
    • I would like to see the RunTime Viewer of Vugen in HPLoadRunner based on the browser I selected in the run-time configuration to make it feel more realistic as a real user.
    • Licensing cost is very high when we need to perform a test on application for a specific group of users.
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    OpenText
    • Most of our problems are with the lengthy onboarding process with iOS devices.
    • Occasionally Android devices will disconnect themselves.
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    OpenText
    The tool continues to meet our expectations and has shown that they are continually evolving the product with new features that benefit us. The most recent new feature was the auto-signing/packaging of iOS apps from the server to allow native interaction of features like biometrics. Prior this was a lengthy exercise.
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    Support Rating
    OpenText
    Customer service is not that great. It's difficult to get hold of someone if an issue is supposed to be addressed on an urgent basis. No online chat service readily available.
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    Alternatives Considered
    OpenText
    HP performance center stacks up very well for front end applications. Need more improvements for API performance testing.
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    OpenText
    HP Mobile Center stacks well against solutions like Mobile Labs Device Connect, Perfecto Mobile and Device Anywhere. Its native integration with HP ALM and HP UFT makes it a clear choice for team already using those solutions. HP Mobile Center also provides extension to Amazon Device Library.
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    Return on Investment
    OpenText
    • The scripts created with traditional web/http protocol are not robust thus re-scripting is required after most every code drop. Troubleshooting and fixing the issue takes more time therefore in most cases we do re-scripting to keep it simple and save time.
    • In ideal world you would rather spend more time doing testing than scripting in that case mostly you could use an Ajax TruClient protocol. This type of script will only fail when an object in the application is removed or changed completely. This way of scripting will save you more time and helps you maintain the scripts with less re-work effort on a release basis. On the long run you will have a better ROI when you use Ajax TruClient protocol for scripting.
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    OpenText
    • Efficient use of the devices. Reduced the idle time.
    • Better control over access and user management. Testing within our controlled environments.
    • Better control of device matrix.
    • Faster testing cycles. Early design bugs to development teams. Real devices means, less guess work.
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