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Data Sheet Application Delivery Management LoadRunner Professional Micro Focus® LoadRunner Professional software is the industry-standard software for perfor mance engineering. Gen erate real-life loads. Identify and diagnose problems. Deploy with confidence. or upgraded applications meet the Product Highlights Click here to learn how LoadRunner Professional performance requirements of your business. Understanding Application Performance can help you deliver high-performing applications. How do you know whether your mission-critical The Inside Story on applications meet the performance and scal- ability requirements of your business? How do LoadRunner Professional you decrease the risk of a failure when deploy- With an intuitive record and playback mecha- nism, including the patented TruClient technol- ing to production? Are your applications per- ogy, LoadRunner Professional reproduces real forming optimally? business processes that a user would perform in production. These scripts can then be easily Enterprise applications are becoming increas- modified to emulate real user behavior. ingly complex. With modern applications, there are many moving parts that can easily become LoadRunner Professional then emulates hun- points of failure if not tested proactively to de- dreds or thousands of concurrent virtual us- ployment. Platforms such as mobile, Cloud, ers, with minimal hardware, to apply accurate and hybrid environments offer their own share workloads to any application. As it drives load of challenges. LoadRunner Professional soft- against the system, LoadRunner Professional ware, used by thousands of business including captures end-user response times for busi- some of the leading Fortune 500 companies ness processes and transactions to determine around the world, is a comprehensive solution whether the application can meet the required for testing system behavior and performance. service-level agreements. Non-intrusive, real- It provides an efficient and robust means to time performance monitors from Micro Focus verify that your application’s architecture is SiteScope captures real-time performance built for more efficient performance and reli- data from every component of application ability. LoadRunner Professional helps you: infrastructure, while Micro Focus Diagnostics ■ Test a broad range of applications, collects application-layer and code-level per- including the latest Web and Mobile formance data. By leveraging Micro Focus technologies, ERP/CRM applications, Network Virtualization and Micro Focus Service and many legacy systems. Virtualization, you can eliminate and control un- known variables and isolate performance risks. ■ Run high-scale tests using minimal hardware, including any mix of physical After the test completes, the LoadRunner Pro- and virtual environments, including public fessional analysis engine provides a single view Cloud infrastructure. of end-user response time, infrastructure-level ■ Identify end-to end performance and code-level performance; and includes the bottlenecks using advanced monitoring patented auto-correlation engine to identify and analysis tools, and ensure that new the most likely causes of performance issues. Data Sheet LoadRunner Professional and scripting, dramatically reducing the amount security and control. You can add multiple of programming required. This gives you the cloud accounts and manage network pro- ability to various levels of user activity, from files for connecting to your various LGs. You the GUI level down to the transport and socket can also secure host communications using level, depending on the skill set available and public/private key pairs, and provision hosts the level of customization required. TruClient using standard templates or by creating your supports most AJAX applications, regardless own. Tests can be executed with any mix of of the framework used; making testing of Web load generators within your network or in the 2.0, and Mobile Web applications faster, easier, public cloud in the cloud. We support various Figure 1. LoadRunner Professional Analysis: A and more comprehensive. cloud environments such as Amazon EC2 or view of cross-results trending capabilities, showing Microsoft Azure. a comparison of increased system scalability and optimized response-time performance LoadRunner Professional is now available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace and Ama Key Features zon AWS, providing you the flexibility to run Test Against a Broad Range of your load and performance testing from the Applications and Protocols cloud, reducing infrastructure costs to execute LoadRunner Professional supports perfor- your tests. Figure 2. The patented Micro Focus TruClient mance testing for a wide range of application technology provides a browser-embedded, environments and protocols, including Web/ interactive way of scripting next-generation Deliver Enterprise Load Generation, Mobile, Web services, MQ, HTML5, WebSockets, Web-based applications Monitoring, and Diagnostics AJAX, Flex, RDP, Database, Remote Terminal LoadRunner Professional can generate real- Emulators, Citrix, Java, .NET, Oracle, and SAP. Scale Up Tests Leveraging the istic loads scaling up to hundreds and thou- An easy-to-use scripting and debugging en- Public Cloud sands of virtual users (VUs) to reproduce gine leverages data format extensions and LoadRunner Professional supports testing realistic conditions. LoadRunner Professional correlation studio to reduce the amount of time of applications on all platforms. Whe ther the integrates with SiteScope to provide more spent scripting. application is running in the cloud or in-house, than 60 non-intrusive monitors to measure the on bare-metal or virtual machines, or in a hy- impact of load testing on every component of Simplify Analysis and Reporting brid environment; LoadRunner Pro fes sional the application. LoadRunner Professional also With its Bubble-Up analysis capabilities, can help test the application before it goes seamlessly integrates with Diagnostics, allow- LoadRunner Professional helps you quickly live, so that you can deploy with confidence. ing you to drill down into applications level is- determine which transactions passed or sues to find the root cause of problems across failed the set service-level objectives, as well With cloud testing, you can quickly and elasti- heterogeneous application stacks; includ- as some potential causes of failure. A strong cally scale up tests to meet the demands of ing J2EE, .Net, SAP, Oracle and SOA based analysis engine helps you slice and dice data your customer-facing business applications, applications. in many ways to easily pinpoint the root cause reducing the cost and overhead of managing of the problems. You can also use templates to dedicated machines. LoadRunner Professional Mobile Application Testing generate multiple custom reports to serve the now provides the ability to seamlessly lever- LoadRunner Professional is the most com- needs of various stakeholders. age public cloud infrastructure to deploy load plete solution for mobile application perfor- generators (LGs) to scale up and down based mance testing; including Mobile Web, Native Record and Replay a Variety of on your performance testing needs, without and Hybrid applications. The TruClient—Mobile Web 2.0 Technologies complicated network configuration. Web protocol supports the rapid testing of TruClient technology is a browser-based vir- browser-based mobile applications, and the tual user that supports next-generation Web- The deployment of cloud-based LGs is built TruClient—Native Mobile protocol provides based applications. TruClient is embedded in into LoadRunner Professional, significantly support for native, Web and Hybrid appli- the browser and provides interactive recording reduces provisioning time, while maintaining cations. Micro Focus solutions for mobile 2 testing can be used to test mobile applica- of the application response time is caused by COMMUNITY CONTENT tions against any platform and OS. LoadRunner network conditions, and optimizing applica- To connect users within the largest perfor- Professional seamlessly integrates with Net tions to run on Mobile is impossible without mance engineering community in the world, work Virtualization enabling realistic net work including realistic network conditions in each LoadRunner Professional integrates with the conditions during each test. test. The impact of network conditions isn’t AppDelivery Marketplace. The AppDelivery only on Mobile users, but on the entire appli- Marketplace provides a single portal for Micro Mobile Application Recording Options cation infrastructure That is why LoadRunner Focus performance testing users and partners When it comes to Mobile testing, one method Professional seamlessly integrates with to share and distribute content with the entire does not fit all. Whether you have access to a Network Virtualization to capture and include user community, who can access and auto- physical device, application or device emula- realistic network conditions during each test. matically install Function Libraries, Correlation tor, or traffic capture from any available Mobile Rules, Data Format Extensions and other add- device cloud; the methods used for captur- Continuous Testing Support ins directly from VuGen. ing application usage will vary with each de- INTEGRATIONS FOR DEVELOPERS ADDITIONAL MICRO FOCUS APPLICATION ployment model. That is why LoadRunner To enable load testing earlier in the application LIFECYCLE INTEGRATIONS Professional