User Guide
243-000079-002 Performance Engineering Solutions
Eight myths about OpenText performance engineering solutions
This guide sets the record straight and highlights the benefits of OpenText performance engineering solutions
Introduction
You’ve invested in OpenText performance engineering solutions to deliver highperforming 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™ performance engineering solutions. We have been innovating performance testing ever since and continue to be an industry leader.
With increasing industry pressure to rapidly release software, we launched an enterprise solution, followed by extending the OpenText performance engineering solutions to deliver a cloud solution.
We’ve received a lot of positive feedback on the OpenText performance engineering solutions, but there 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 OpenText performance engineering solutions.
OpenText performance engineering solutions myths
Myth 1
Scripting is complicated with OpenText performance engineering solutions ›
Myth 2
OpenText performance engineering solutions do not fully integrate with continuous testing ›
Myth 3
It takes too long to set up a test with OpenText performance engineering solutions ›
Myth 4
OpenText performance engineering solutions are not 100-percent open source compatible ›
Myth 5
OpenText performance engineering testing tools are not suited for every team member ›
Myth 6
OpenText performance engineering solutions are difficult to scale ›
Myth 7
OpenText performance engineering solutions do not have comprehensive analytics ›
Myth 8
OpenText performance engineering solutions are outdated ›
Myth 1
Scripting is complicated with OpenText performance engineering solutions.
“OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Enterprise) helped us overcome debugging and scripting challenges. It has enabled us to manage projects. We have a place where we can put our results and scripts. It has streamlined our testing process. The tool has improved productivity and result quality.”
Gopal Bansal Advisor Fiserv
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“OpenText performance engineering should be recognized as the best solution in game performance testing… We’re confident that the reliability of the results we get from it is second to none.”
Kim Byung Su
CEO
Ntrance Corp
Eight myths about OpenText performance engineering solutions
Fact
Scripting is a core focus of our performance testing solutions.
Scripts help your users simulate a business process and how 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 a script 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 for more effective load testing. VuGen assets are reusable with all OpenText performance engineering solutions, which minimizes script and 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 control of 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 OpenText performance engineering solution. DevWeb connects all project stakeholders at different testing stages to the continuous performance testing process.
Create a script with VuGen
Learn how Ntrance saves one month per testing cycle by simplifying test script creation, management, execution, and monitoring.
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Learn how you can replay a VuGen script using the MDRV process.
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Learn more about using VuGen.
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Myth 2
OpenText performance engineering solutions do not fully integrate with continuous testing.
“OpenText Professional Performance Engineering was the only solution on the market that could cater to our technical requirements—and even though we’ve evaluated other solutions since, OpenText Professional Performance Engineering remains the clear leader.”
Aditya Kattamuri
Assistant Manager, ITSM Test & QA
Discount Tire
“OpenText Professional Performance Engineering (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
Eight myths about OpenText performance engineering solutions
Fact
OpenText performance engineering solutions extensive integrations enable continuous testing.
User experience plays a significant role during short development cycles, frequent releases, and changing market needs. You need quality standards throughout the SDLC. 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 across developers, 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.
| OpenText | Monitoring | CI/CD | Containers |
| OpenText™ Software Delivery Management OpenText™ Application Quality Management OpenText™ Functional Testing OpenText™ Functional Testing Lab for Mobile and Web Silk Performer Silk Test RUM SiteScope OpenText™ Core Software Delivery Platform |
AppDynamics Dynatrace New Relic Splunk Broadcom APM Datadog Prometheus Azure Application Insights Amazon CloudWatch |
Jenkins Bamboo TeamCity Azure DevOps – TFS AWS CodePipeline GitHub Actions |
Docker Kubernetes EKSAKS |
| Open Source Test Automation |
Cloud Providers |
Source Code Management |
Data Visualization |
IDES |
| Gatling JMeter JUnit NUnit Selenium |
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Platform DigitalOcean |
Git GitHub |
Grafana InfluxDB |
Visual Studio Eclipse IntelliJ VSCode |
*Marks are proprietary of their respective owners. Not all integrations are supported across all products.
OpenText performance engineering solutions have dozens of built-in 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.
OpenText performance engineering solutions embrace an open approach to your broader ecosystem with extensive integrations to enable continuous testing. Additionally, our products are now open by exposing REST APIs so that tests can be executed from any solution.
Learn how PointsBet enables continuous development and through GitHub integration.
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Myth 3
It takes too long to set up a test with OpenText performance engineering solutions.
“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 configuring load generators, look for upgrades, and end up having that take up a lot of your time.”
Vinod Patil Senior Manager, Performance Architect Publicis Sapient
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“Using OpenText Enterprise Performance
Engineering we deliver 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
Eight myths about OpenText performance engineering solutions
Fact
OpenText performance engineering solutions offer flexible options to enable quick testing.
Set up and run tests in minutes with a 100-percent cloud-based solution that eliminates infrastructure management. OpenText Core Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Cloud) automatically creates tests on demand.
Seamlessly leverage public cloud infrastructure to deploy load generators (LGs). Scale up and down based on your performance testing needs.
OpenText Core Performance Engineering
Learn how Endress+Hauser InfoServe gained more effective team collaboration and greater user satisfaction.
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 of managing 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.
What is load testing?
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Myth 4
OpenText performance engineering solutions are not 100-percent open source compatible.
“Our DevOps initiatives, leveraging Micro Focus (now OpenText) automated testing solutions, are helping us be more innovative and much 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
Eight myths about OpenText performance engineering solutions
Fact
OpenText performance engineering solutions support common open source tools.
JMeter, Gatling, Selenium, JUnit, and NUnit script reuse are all open source tools that OpenText performance engineering 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, and reuse them in a performance test to save time.
OpenText performance engineering solutions embrace different testing tools for scripting, complemented by advanced execution and analytics capabilities.
Open source tools supported in OpenText performance engineering.
Learn more about the benefits of using OpenText performance engineering solutions with open source tools.
Automation support improves coverage and allows test teams to work with tools they are familiar with. OpenText performance engineering solutions support many common open source solutions. They not only work in conjunction with open source tools but also enhance them. OpenText performance engineering solutions help speed up test efforts by maximizing these resources and reusing assets.
Learn how to integrate open source and commercial tools into your DevOps pipeline.
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Myth 5
OpenText performance engineering solutions testing tools are not suited for every team member.
“OpenText Performance Engineering for Developers (LoadRunner Developer) shiftleft process is becoming more and more important for us. It’s a newer initiative for Costco. We are pushing towards it. We already have teams that have started doing lower-level performance testing.”
Luke Steinmetzer
System Administrator
Costco Wholesale
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Eight myths about OpenText performance engineering solutions
Fact
Developers, QA, testers, and performance engineers can easily use OpenText performance engineering tools.
OpenText performance engineering solutions are for every team member, expanding performance testing to new roles.
They offer different user interfaces and tools to involve different personas in performance testing efforts.
In fact, these tools break down silos and enable teams to collaborate closely. Using OpenText performance engineering solutions, anyone can reuse assets and share comprehensive real-time analytics, keeping everyone connected.
OpenText performance engineering solutions include OpenText Performance Engineering for Developers, TruClient for less experienced scripters, VuGen for performance engineers, OpenText Professional Perfomance Engineering for co-located teams, OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering for distributed teams,and OpenText Core Performance Engineering, which facilitates cloud testing.
OpenText performance engineering solutions
All products have features and capabilities that enable different personas to use the tools and their skills.
Performance engineering teams work together from start to finish:
- Developers script, model scenarios, run tests, and quickly analyze the results—without leaving their usual developer ecosystem.
- Developers and dev testers engage in performance engineering earlier. This involvement provides the early feedback needed to deliver applications faster, with less risk and higher quality.
- Engineers and testers share resources and results in real time, such as advanced scheduling, simulation of real-world scenarios, superior execution, network emulation from different geographic locations, and more detailed analytics that help isolate and identify performance issues before release.
Learn how performance engineering enables DevOps.
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Learn how to leverage shift-left testing into your performance engineering with OpenText performance engineering solutions.
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Myth 6
OpenText performance engineering solutions are difficult to scale.
“As part of our Performance Engineering testing, we went as high as 50,000 concurrent users, so we have now moved some of our bigger test suites onto OpenText Core Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Cloud).”
Vivek Koul
Performance Engineering Manager
McGraw-Hill
“OpenText Core Enterprise Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Enterprise SaaS) works well for us because of its flexibility. We could start with a limited number of users and expand as needed. There’s no big capital expense, and we can charge services back to the bottlers.”
Andrei Semenov
Senior Manager PMO and Enablement
CONA Services, LLC
Eight myths about OpenText performance engineering solutions
Fact
OpenText performance engineering solutions deliver a flexible and scalable approach to infrastructure, licensing, and workloads.
OpenText Core Performance Engineering is designed to handle massive scale. No additional hardware required. Test applications with more than five million virtual users from geographic locations around the world—all in a matter of minutes.
OpenText Core Performance Engineering
When using OpenText performance engineering solutions, you pick the deployment option that works best for you and minimize infrastructure needs with options spanning onpremises, 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), OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering offers these options as well. You can dynamically provision hosts on demand without having to manage complex infrastructures.
Load generator flexibility across all OpenText performance engineering solutions 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.
Coke One North America (CONA) scales users and loads without service interruption.
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Myth 7
OpenText performance engineering solutions do not have comprehensive analytics.
“With OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Enteprise), we run tests much faster than before and have introduced a 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
Fact
Your teams can leverage automated and graphical analysis to help isolate the root cause and use data visualization to make smarter decisions.
OpenText performance engineering solutions empower your teams with data visualization capabilities, enabling them to view data, manipulate it, and then make the right decision.
Automated and graphical analysis can significantly reduce the time you spend analyzing data. Ultimately, you want to 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 the mitigation options with intuitive analytics.
During the graphical analysis process, you can:
- Capture valuable metrics on how the application behaves under different virtual user loads.
- Compare multiple metrics from both the same and old tests runs.
- Compare existing test run to a benchmark.
- Get real-time results and enhanced data visualization with Grafana and InfluxDB.
Sky achieved 95% automated end-to-end performance testing.
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Did you know that OpenText performance engineering solutions offer visibility into the test status across the entire enterprise? They also provide performance trending information across multiple 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. With detailed root cause analysis, users can get test data displayed both in real time and offline. The online and offline analysis capabilities aid in trending and anomaly detection.
Comprehensive analytics allow you to:
- Compare the current run with a previous run or to the test benchmark.
- View network breakdown metrics and transaction summaries.
- Create different dashboard layouts for different stakeholders who may access the test.
- Create a convenient configuration of your graphs based on your own needs.
- Overall, manage data better and organize metrics for easier manipulation.
Comprehensive analytics and data visualization across
OpenText performance engineering solutions.
 Comprehensive analytics—Grafana reporting |
 OpenText Core Performance Engineering dashboard |
 OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering dashboardEight myths about OpenText performance engineering solutions |
 OpenText Professional Performance Engineering controller |
Myth 8
OpenText performance engineering solutions are outdated.
“With OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering, we run tests much faster than before and have introduced a changedriven 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
Fact
OpenText performance engineering solutions continue to innovate with regular releases.
To ensure that all solutions are up to your expectations, we continually enhance OpenText peformance engineering solutions. Our 100-percent cloud solution brings new capabilities to market every nine weeks, while our on-premises and collaborative solutions offer enhancements on a quarterly basis.
Recent innovations include a streamlined architecture and modernized 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.
OpenText Performance Engineering solutions
| Network | Oracle E-business | SAP | Mobile and IoT | Templates |
| DNS FTP IMAP LDAP MAPI POP3 Tuxedo Winsock |
DevWeb JMeter Gatling Oracle NCA Oracle–Web Siebel–Web Web–HTTP/HTML |
SAP GUI SAP–Web SMP–(SAP Mobile Platform) |
MQTT CoAP SMP–(SAP Mobile Platform) TruClient–Mobile JMeter Gatling Web–HTTP/HTML DevWeb |
C Vuser C++ .NET C# .NET Java Vuser VB.Net |
| GUI | SOA | Database | Java | Development |
| OpenText™ Functional Testing |
UFT API Web Services |
ODBC Oracle-2 Tier |
Java Record Replay Java over HTTP Kafka Cloud for AWS Finance ISO |
SDK Unit Test–NUnit, JUnit Selenium, OpenText™ Functional Testing for Developers |
| Rich Internet Applications | .NET Record & Replay | Remote Access | Remote Desktop | |
| Selenium TruClient–Mobile Web TruClient–Web |
Microsoft .NET .NET+ |
Citrix RTE PCoIP |
Microsoft RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) |
*Not all protocols are supported across all products.
OpenText performance engineering solutions do not just deliver a load testing solution, they also deliver a complete performance engineering solution. Continued innovation and expanded integration through consistent releases ensure our support for third-party and open source tools stay updated. These ongoing features and enhancements, as well as an open architecture, allows OpenText performance engineering solutions to evolve.
We hope this ebook has helped clear up any myths about OpenText performance engineering solutions being outdated. Meet the needs of your DevOps teams by integrating with CI/CD pipeline engines, IDE tools for shift-left testing, APM, and support for open source tools.
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