Eight myths
about theLoadRunnerfamilyInnovate and deliver value with
LoadRunner solutions

You’ve invested in LoadRunner
solutions to deliver
high-performing applications.
Do you have all the facts?
More than 25 years ago, we entered the performance engineering world
with what you now know as the OpenText™ LoadRunner™ family ofsolutions. We have been innovating performance testing ever since andcontinue to be an industry leader.
With increasing industry pressure to rapidly release software, welaunched an enterprise solution, followed by extending the LoadRunner
platform to deliver a cloud solution.
We’ve received a lot of positive feedback on the LoadRunner family, butthere are numerous negative claims that are simply not true.
This ebook outlines eight common myths and shines a light on recent
innovations you should bear in mind when using or considering
LoadRunner solutions.

LoadRunner family myths

Myth 1Myth 2Myth 3Myth 4

Scripting is complicated with
LoadRunner solutions ›LoadRunner solutions do
not fully integrate with
continuous testing ›It takes too long to set up
a test with LoadRunner
solutions ›LoadRunner solutions are
not 100-percent open
source compatible ›Myth 5Myth 6Myth 7Myth 8

LoadRunner family testing
tools are not suited for every
team member ›LoadRunner solutions are
difficult to scale ›LoadRunner solutions do
not have comprehensive
analytics ›LoadRunner solutions
are outdated ›Myth 1

Scripting is complicatedwith LoadRunner solutions.

“OpenText LoadRunner Enterprisehelped us overcome debugging
and scripting challenges. It hasenabled us to manage projects.
We have a place where we canput our results and scripts. It has
streamlined our testing process.
The tool has improved productivity
and result quality.”

Fact

Scripting is a core focus of our performance
testing solutions.
Scripts help your users simulate a business process andhow real users will interact with the application they are
testing. Over the years, we’ve created new protocols to
make scripting simpler, easier to maintain, and generally
faster. Our online editor records your actions as you
navigate through your business process, creating ascript in real time, allowing you to see the steps you
complete in a sidebar.
With VuGen, (Virtual User Generator), you can easily
create, record, correlate, replay, and enhance scripts formore effective load testing. VuGen assets are reusablewith all LoadRunner solutions, which minimizes scriptand scenario duplication.

When creating DevWeb scripts (which are pure
JavaScript), you can record, script, and execute load
tests in your favorite IDE as part of the continuous
testing process.
Reduce scripting time and gain simple, intuitive controlof your scripts using the JavaScript SDK. The ability for
native string manipulation and asynchronous pattern
handling lets you reuse code from the application.
The DevWeb script can then be shared and run natively
on any LoadRunner solution. DevWeb connects all
project stakeholders at different testing stages to thecontinuous performance testing process.

Gopal Bansal
Advisor
Fiserv
Read the full review on PeerSpot ›“LoadRunner should be recognized
as the best solution in gameperformance testing… We’reconfident that the reliability of theresults we get from LoadRunner issecond to none.”
Kim Byung Su
CEO
Ntrance Corp

Create a script with VuGen

Learn how Ntrance saves one month
per testing cycle by simplifying
test script creation, management,
execution, and monitoring.
Read the case study ›Learn how you can replay
a VuGen script using the
MDRV process.
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VuGen.
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4Myth 2

LoadRunner solutions do
not fully integrate with
continuous testing.

“LoadRunner Enterprise was
the only solution on the market
that could cater to our technicalrequirements—and even though
we’ve evaluated other solutions
since, LoadRunner Enterpriseremains the clear leader.”Aditya Kattamuri
Assistant Manager, ITSM Test & QA
Discount Tire

Fact

LoadRunner solutions extensive integrations
enable continuous testing.
User experience plays a significant role during shortdevelopment cycles, frequent releases, and changing
market needs. You need quality standards throughout theSDLC. Continuous testing and performance engineering
enable users to build all the necessary performance
metrics from the initial design.
We’ve been working with our customers to include
performance testing as part of their pipelines. Broadening
the integration of performance into the CI/CD process
helps you balance and prioritize responsibilities acrossdevelopers, testers, and performance engineers. However,integrating with today’s complex toolchains and getting
developers involved in the process isn’t a simple feat. You
need an open approach that brings together and enhances
the technologies DevOps and Agile teams need to test
their way.

Extensive integrations enable continuous testing.

“LoadRunner Professional gave
us a robust performance testing
framework with industry-leading,in-built capabilities. We found we
could enter all our client activity,
merge our interactions into one
master performance testing
scenario, and replicate from there.”
Pranay Agarwal
SRE & Performance Lead
PointsBet Australia

OpenText

Monitoring

CI/CD

Containers

IDES

ALM Octane
ALM/Quality Center
UFT One
UFT Digital Lab
Silk Performer
Silk TestRUM
SiteScope
ValueEdge™

AppDynamics
Dynatrace
New Relic
SplunkBroadcom APM
Datadog
Prometheus
Azue Application
Insights
Amazon CloudWatch

Jenkins
Bamboo
TeamCity
Azure DevOps
AWS CodePipeline
GitHub Actions

DockerKubermetes
Swarm

Visual Studio
EclipseIntelliJ

Open Source
Cloud
Test Automation Providers

Source CodeManagement

Data
Visualization

Gatling
JMeterJUnit
NUnit
Selenium

Git
GitHub

Grafana
InfluxDB

Amazon Web
Services (AWS)
Azure
Google Cloud

LoadRunner solutions have dozens of builtin integrations across IDE, CI/CD, open source,
monitoring, and source-code management tools:• IDE integrations: Eclipse, IntelliJ, Visual Studio.
• CI/CD integrations: AWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps,
Bamboo, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Team City.
• Open source integrations: Gatling, JMeter, JUnit,
NUnit, Selenium.
• Monitoring integrations: AppDynamics, Amazon
CloudWatch, Azure Application Insights, Broadcom APM,
Datadog, and more.
• SCM integrations: Git and GitHub.
The LoadRunner family embraces an open approach to yourbroader ecosystem with extensive integrations to enable
continuous testing. Additionally, our products are now open
by exposing REST APIs so that tests can be executed fromany solution.

*Marks are proprietary of their respective owners. Not all integrations are supported across all products.

Learn how PointsBet enables continuous
development and through GitHub integration.
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5Myth 3

It takes too long to set up
a test with LoadRunner
solutions.

Fact

The LoadRunner family offers flexible
options to enable quick testing.
Set up and run tests in minutes with a 100-percent cloudbased solution that eliminates infrastructure management.
LoadRunner Cloud automatically creates tests on demand.

“It’s a fast product, so you don’t
have much trouble in terms of
maintenance overhead. You don’t
want to just look into configuringload generators, look for upgrades,
and end up having that take up a
lot of your time.”

Seamlessly leverage public cloud infrastructure to deploy
load generators (LGs). Scale up and down based on yourperformance testing needs.
With cloud testing, you can quickly and elastically scale
up tests to meet the demands of your customer-facing
business applications, reducing the cost and overhead ofmanaging dedicated machines.

You can also build a collaborative environment and share
a common infrastructure. Execute multiple performance
tests concurrently and continuously and share all
relevant assets to test more quickly and deliver faster
results.
Plugins for continuous integration provide a mechanism
for executing performance tests as part of a build.
Additionally, users can synchronize tests from YAML files
saved in a Git repository and create tests from YAML
input, allowing them to run tests quickly.

Vinod Patil
Senior Manager, Performance Architect
Publicis Sapient
Read the full review on PeerSpot ›“Using LoadRunner Enterprise wedeliver higher quality applications
in a well-sized environment, fit for
purpose. Our users really appreciate
this, and our go-live experience has
improved immensely.”
Wolfram Wagner
Expert System Engineer Performance
Endress+Hauser InfoServe

LoadRunner Cloud

Learn how Endress+Hauser InfoServe gained more
effective team collaboration and greater user satisfaction.
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6Myth 4

LoadRunner solutions
are not 100-percent
open source compatible.

Fact

LoadRunner solutions support common
open source tools.
JMeter, Gatling, Selenium, JUnit, and NUnit script reuse
are all open source tools that LoadRunner solutions
support. You can execute the scripts these tools generate
without converting or adjusting them. We want our users
to bring existing assets, such as functional scripts, andreuse them in a performance test to save time.
The LoadRunner Family embraces different testing tools
for scripting, complemented by advanced execution andanalytics capabilities.

“Our DevOps initiatives, leveraging
Micro Focus (now part of OpenText)
automated testing solutions, arehelping us be more innovative andmuch more responsive to evolving
customer requirements. We deliver
new applications and updates faster,with fewer errors, and at lower cost.”
Senior Testing Engineer
Large UK Financial Services Company

Automation support improves coverage and allows
test teams to work with tools they are familiar with.
LoadRunner solutions support many common open
source solutions. They not only work in conjunction
with open source tools but also enhance them. The
LoadRunner family helps speed up test efforts by
maximizing these resources and reusing assets.

Open source tools supported in LoadRunner.

Learn more about the benefits of using LoadRunner
solutions with open source tools.

Learn how to integrate open source andcommercial tools into your DevOps pipeline.

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7

Myth 5

LoadRunner family testing
tools are not suited forevery team member.

Fact

Developers, QA, testers, and performanceengineers can easily use LoadRunner tools.
LoadRunner solutions are for every team member,
expanding performance testing to new roles. They offerdifferent user interfaces and tools to involve different
personas in performance testing efforts.
In fact, these tools break down silos and enable teams tocollaborate closely. Using LoadRunner solutions, anyone
can reuse assets and share comprehensive real-time
analytics, keeping everyone connected.
OpenText Performance Engineering solutions include
LoadRunner Developer for developers, TruClient forless experienced scripters, VuGen for performance

Luke Steinmetzer
System Administrator
Costco Wholesale
Read the full review on PeerSpot ›LoadRunnerProfessional

LoadRunnerEnterprise

Project oriented
for the mosttechnical users.

CoE ready for global
collaboration

Performance engineering teams work together fromstart to finish:• Developers script, model scenarios, run tests, andquickly analyze the results—without leaving theirusual developer ecosystem.
• Developers and dev testers engage in performanceengineering earlier. This involvement provides theearly feedback needed to deliver applications faster,with less risk and higher quality.
• Engineers and testers share resources and results inreal time, such as advanced scheduling, simulationof real-world scenarios, superior execution, network
emulation from different geographic locations, andmore detailed analytics that help isolate and identify
performance issues before release.

LoadRunner family“LoadRunner Developer’s shift-leftprocess is becoming more andmore important for us. It’s a newer
initiative for Costco. We are pushingtowards it. We already have teams
that have started doing lower-level
performance testing.”

engineers, LoadRunner Professional for co-locatedteams, LoadRunner Enterprise for distributed teams,
and LoadRunner Cloud, which facilitates cloud testing.
All products have features and capabilities that enabledifferent personas to use the tools and their skills.

LoadRunner
Developer

LoadRunnerCloud

Developer-centric
using the IDEof choice

Ultimate scalability
when you need it

Learn how performance engineering
enables DevOps.

Learn how to leverage shift-left testing into yourperformance engineering with LoadRunner solutions.

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8Myth 6

LoadRunner solutions are
difficult to scale.

Fact

LoadRunner solutions deliver a flexible and scalable
approach to infrastructure, licensing, and workloads.
LoadRunner Cloud is designed to handle massive scale.
No additional hardware required. Test applications withmore than five million virtual users from geographic
locations around the world—all in a matter of minutes.

As part of our LoadRunner testing,
we went as high as 50,000
concurrent users, so we have now
moved some of our bigger test
suites onto LoadRunner Cloud.”

When using LoadRunner solutions, you pick the
deployment option that works best for you and minimize
infrastructure needs with options spanning on-premises,
Docker containers, Software as a Service (SaaS), or load
generators provisioned in the cloud.

If you have a subscription with public cloud providers(Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform,or Microsoft Azure), LoadRunner Enterprise offers
these options as well. You can dynamically provision
hosts on demand without having to manage complex
infrastructures.
Load generator flexibility across the entire LoadRunnerfamily helps you to scale. Several capabilities—including
OneLG, a combined installer for on-premises load
generators—helps you flexibly scale up or down without
a lot of extra work.

Vivek Koul
Performance Engineering Manager
McGraw-Hill“Micro Focus (now part of OpenText)
LoadRunner Enterprise SaaS works
well for us because of its flexibility.
We could start with a limited numberof users and expand as needed.
There’s no big capital expense, andwe can charge services back tothe bottlers.”
Andrei Semenov
Senior Manager PMO and Enablement
CONA Services, LLC

LoadRunner Cloud

Coke One North America (CONA)
scales users and loads without
service interruption.

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9Myth 7

LoadRunner solutions do
not have comprehensive
analytics.

Fact

Your teams can leverage automated and graphicalanalysis to help isolate the root cause and use datavisualization to make smarter decisions.
The LoadRunner family empowers your teams with datavisualization capabilities, enabling them to view data,
manipulate it, and then make the right decision.

“With LoadRunner Enterprise,
we run tests much faster than
before and have introduceda change-driven approach,where we test what we need,
reducing engineering time.
We arrive in the morning
to comprehensive test
reports and can quickly
determine the success of
our testing efforts.”
Colin Griffiths
Performance Engineering Manager
Sky

Automated and graphical analysis can significantly reduce
the time you spend analyzing data. Ultimately, you wantto identify problems faster and use predictive analytics
to help understand anomalies and problems in real time.
Easily interpret the test results to identify the performance
profile of the application, and then determine themitigation options with intuitive analytics.

Did you know that LoadRunner solutions offer visibility
into the test status across the entire enterprise? They
also provide performance trending information acrossmultiple tests. You can define a baseline and set up
reports. These capabilities help you quickly see how
the application performance trends over subsequent
iterations and performs against defined SLAs. Withdetailed root cause analysis, users can get test data
displayed both in real time and offline. The online andoffline analysis capabilities aid in trending and anomaly
detection.

During the graphical analysis process, you can:Comprehensive analytics allow you to:• Capture valuable metrics on how the application
behaves under different virtual user loads.

• Compare the current run with a previous run or to thetest benchmark.

• Compare multiple metrics from both the same and old
tests runs.

• View network breakdown metrics and transaction
summaries.

• Compare existing test run to a benchmark.

• Create different dashboard layouts for different
stakeholders who may access the test.

• Get real-time results and enhanced data visualization
with Grafana and InfluxDB.

• Create a convenient configuration of your graphs
based on your own needs.
• Overall, manage data better and organize metrics foreasier manipulation.

Sky achieved 95% automated end-to-end
performance testing.
Read the case study ›Contents 10

Comprehensive analytics and data visualization
across the LoadRunner family.

Comprehensive analytics—Grafana reporting

LoadRunner Cloud dashboard

LoadRunner Enterprise dashboard

LoadRunner Professional controller

Contents 11

Myth 8

LoadRunner solutions
are outdated.

Fact

LoadRunner family continues to innovatewith regular releases.
To ensure that all solutions are up to your expectations,
we continually enhance LoadRunner solutions. Our
100-percent cloud solution brings new capabilities
to market every nine weeks, while our on-premises
and collaborative solutions offer enhancements on aquarterly basis.
Recent innovations include a streamlined architecture andmodernized controller for ease of use, an improved user
experience for VuGen, and additional analysis reports.
Continual enhancements improve scripting from TruClient
browser updates and client-side measurements to
DevWeb enhancements.

“Our DevOps initiatives,
leveraging Micro Focus (nowpart of OpenText) automatedtesting solutions, are helping
us be more innovative andmuch more responsive
to evolving customer
requirements. We deliver new
applications and updates
faster, with fewer errors, andat lower cost.”
Senior Testing Engineer
Large UK Financial Services Company

The LoadRunner family does not just deliver a load
testing solution, it also delivers a complete performanceengineering solution. Continued innovation andexpanded integration through consistent releases
ensure our support for third-party and open source
tools stay updated. These ongoing features andenhancements, as well as an open architecture, allows
LoadRunner solutions to evolve.
We hope this ebook has helped clear up any myths
about the LoadRunner family being outdated. Meet theneeds of your DevOps teams by integrating with CI/CD
pipeline engines, IDE tools for shift-left testing, APM,
and support for open source tools.

LoadRunner family
Network

Oracle E-business SAP

Mobile and IoT

Templates

DNS
FTP
IMAP
LDAP
MAPI
POP3
TuxedoWinsock

DevWeb
JMeterGatling
Oracle NCA
Oracle—Web
Siebel—Web
Web—HTTP/HTMLSAP GUISAP—Web
SMP—(SAP Mobile
Platform)

MQTT
CoAP
TruClient—Mobile
JMeterGatling
Web—HTTP/HTML
Dev/Web

C VuserC++ .NETC# .NETJava Vuser
VB.NetGUI

SOA

Database

Java

Development

Unified Functional
Testing (UFT)UFT APIWeb Services

ODBC
Oracle—2 TierJava Record Replay
Java over HTTP
Kafka

Rich Internet
Applications.NET Record &ReplaySDK
Unit Test—NUnit,
JUnit Selenium,
UFT Developer

Remote Access Remote Desktop

Selenium
Microsoft .NET
TruClient—Mobile Web .NET+
TruClient—Web

CitrixRTD
PColP

Microsoft RDP(Remote Desktop
Protocol)*Not all protocols are supported across all products.

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