

What is LoadRunner Professional?
Simplify performance load testing for colocated teams. With project-based capabilities, your teams can quickly identify abnormal application behavior.
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Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.
70 Likeliness to Recommend
70 Plan to Renew
79 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
- Product Experience:
- 93%
- Negotiation and Contract:
- 96%
- Conflict Resolution:
- 93%
- Strategy & Innovation:
- 90%
- Service Experience:
- 94%
Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.
+89 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love LoadRunner Professional?
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Unique Features
Cons
- Less Productive
How to read the Emotional Footprint
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While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Test Script Editor
Regulatory Compliance
Test Coverage Analysis
Test Data Management
Audit Log
ALM Integration
Test Planning
Artifact Traceability
Test Load Balancing
Test Case Generator
Test Environment Management
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Ease of Data Integration
Ease of Customization
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
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Ease of IT Administration
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LoadRunner Professional Reviews

Nitin M.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Sep 2024
Load runner for performance testing the applicatio
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates LoadRunner Professional from other similar products?
End to end capability to achieve performance goals, separation of tools for development, running and analysing performance test results.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Analysis module helps us to find the root cause analysis or identify bottlenecks for performance issues
What do you dislike most about this product?
Licence cost is more compared to others.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Great product for the load, soak, stress and spike testing the application
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Efficient Service
- Altruistic
- Security Protects

Srikanth D.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jan 2023
Reflecting on features of Micro Focus LoadRunner
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates LoadRunner Professional from other similar products?
Easy web service scripting Ability to obtain detailed results from a test for trending Easy browser scenario scripting Simple to use data/parameterization Easy scenario building and configuration
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Return on Investment
What do you dislike most about this product?
The UI of the software can be improved. It should also have integration and testing or automation with mobile UI. Configuration settings are a bit complex.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
HP Load Runner is a great industry standard load testing tool. We are using it across the whole organization as well as outside the organization to serve all our multiple regional clients from the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific region and others. HP Load Runner addresses the application performance management issues by spoofing the hits of each user to the web server and it helps to identify the bottleneck of the web application. All the metrics captured or generated by this tool are highly trusted by software engineers worldwide which make this tool more popular and supported.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Inspires Innovation
- Saves Time
Cons
- Less Productive

Anshul S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Sep 2021
Needs improvement in dump analysis
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates LoadRunner Professional from other similar products?
Accurate detection of system, end user, and code-level bottlenecks. Determines root cause of application performance issues. Minimizes cost of application downtime stemmed from performance issues. Allows performance testing of existing legacy applications with new technologies.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Minimizes cost of application downtime stemmed from performance issues.
What do you dislike most about this product?
bad dump analysis
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It definitely provide more features than other performance testing tools
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Effective Service