OpenText LoadRunner Professional vs. Oracle Application Testing Suite (legacy)

Micro Focus LoadRunner is good for scripting and running a load test, but should be providing better customer service in case of user facing any issues.

Incentivized

The Oracle Application [Testing Suite] is used heavily in our organization for independent regions to perform Oracle upgrades. Baseline performance can be monitored before the upgrade and compared to a production query load, we are able to easily monitor server performance and make an accurate prediction of upgrade performance. DBA's are able to use the testing suite for ongoing validation of database performance during peak times.

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• Support of multiple protocols like HTTP, RDP, Citrix, SAP, Oracle Database 12c, AJAX Tru Client, SOAP-based calls and others which is why it is used widely in our organization as we are using various applications in an industry for different usage.
• Supporting the mobile agents which means it is not only used for web applications but also for mobile applications.
• Latest version of HP LoadRunner makes the scripting easy by replacing dynamic changes in the script using correlation parameters. This means less coding and we can focus on major issues if needed.
• Controller enhancements by specifying the cloud provider like Digital Ocean. We can provision our load generators with Amazon EC2, DigitalOcean and others.
• Analysis provides a nice HTML report on the test executed with all the necessary metrics. We can simply put more analysis if needed and it will be automatically embedded in an HTML report.

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• It was easy to configure selenium test scripts for executing automated tests for our client front end applications.
• Load and stress testing our payroll processing engine that experienced the highest traffic volumes became a breeze.

Incentivized

• Monitoring tools like SiteScope, AppDynamics should be used apart from HP Performance Center. Would be great if the tool can give good monitoring on app and db servers.
• As the load goes high, the cost increases. In the open source world, it's not a bad idea to consider the licensing cost.

Incentivized

• The application is ideal for places that have already contracted with Oracle, however, OATS is much more expensive than other software available on the market.
• The setup and configuration for OATS requires a lot of technical expertise and in depth knowledge.

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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.

Incentivized

Micro Focus LoadRunner fit well into our portfolio of tools with its long track record, ability to test near any application technology we adopt and allow for a single / cohesive toolset to drive our performance testing needs.

Incentivized

We buy all things ORACLE in order to have a consistent experience and reduce the training and learning curve. We believe in ORACLE Corporation's commitment to quality and innovation and would not consider any other products. We are a large company and saving a few dollars on licensing is penny wise but pound foolish as we cannot afford unplanned downtime.

Incentivized

• It has a positive impact as we know how PE testing is (performance).
• It helps with integrating data from various data streams and includes anomaly testing.
• It does a good job with the accuracy of results. The results are very accurate.

Incentivized

• Oracle testing suite had a positive ROI immediately, as our web application downtimes were reduced dramatically after we could do automated regression and load testing.
• The learning curve for OpenScript was steep for our team, and we had to spend a lot of work hours training staff and learning the product.
• After users were trained properly, we were able to leverage the benefits of the suite immediately.

Incentivized