Data Sheet Application Delivery Management

LoadRunner Professional

Micro Focus® LoadRunner Professional software is the industry-standard software for perfor­mance engineering. Generate­ 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. Whe­ther 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 Profes­­­ 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 net­work 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 includes multiple methods for lifecycle—which is particularly relevant in ag- To facilitate intelligent release decisions, Load­ recording Mobile application scripts, to meet ile environments—LoadRunner Professional Runner Professional is integrated with industry- the needs of any Mobile development project. provides IDE to integrate with leading develop- lead­­ing quality software, such as Micro Focus Virtual User Generator supports the following ment environments Visual Studio and Eclipse; Quality Center (QC), and Appli­ca­tion Lifecycle Mobile application scripting methods: allowing developers to run unit tests using the Management (ALM). Lev­er­aging these comple- ■ Server-side traffic capture LoadRunner Professional engine. This inte- ■ mentary products together­ with LoadRunner gration lets Developers create LoadRunner ■■ PCAP traffic recording Professional provides a comprehensive solu- Professional scripts directly within the IDE, ■■ Mobile Device Emulator tion for managing release risk, so you can make and contribute to performance testing efforts informed decisions prior to going live. ■■ Proxy recording earlier in the application lifecycle. LoadRunner ■■ TruClient—Mobile Web (for mobile-web Professional also supports execution of Complete integration with Micro Focus Uni­ applications) JUnit, NUnit and Selenium scripts as part of fied Functional Testing (UFT) and LeanFT the test scenario, allowing you to leverage ■■ TruClient—Native Mobile (for native, helps bridge the functional testing gap and browser-based, or hybrid mobile Unit tests the developers are already creating. eliminate the risk caused by external depen- applications) LoadRunner Professional integrates with Git dencies component services. API tests au- Hub too, allowing you to upload scripts from thored in UFT can be executed directly in the a Git repository. Network Virtualization Support LoadRunner Professional Controller as part of Mobile application performance is critical to a performance test. In addition, the Diagnostics Profiler software the success of a business. As much as 70% allows Developers to view and debug perfor- INTEGRATIONS WITH PRODUCTION mance issues at the code level within their test Application-performance and service-level environment. management doesn’t end when load testing is done. In fact, service-level management CONTINUOUS DELIVERY begins when the system goes live. During the LoadRunner Professional provides a plugin transition from prerelease to production, you to Jenkins: this add-in executes LoadRunner can use LoadRunner Professional scripts within Professional scenarios and reports pass/fail Micro Focus Business Systems Management status at the end of a build job. There are also (BSM) software to monitor application perfor- APIs for automating the analysis and reporting mance, availability, and service levels in pro- of completed tests. duction under real-user workloads. Common technologies in Micro Focus products such as Diagnostics and SiteScope, which integrate

www.microfocus.com 3 with both LoadRunner Professional and BSM, About Micro Focus Software help bridge the gap between testing and pro- Application Delivery duction. These integrations, both upstream Management Solutions to QA and downstream into production, make Software Application Delivery Management LoadRunner Professional an ideal solution for solutions help ensure modernization initiatives performance engineering across the applica- deliver business outcomes instead of failing tion lifecycle. under the burden of outdated, legacy delivery mechanisms. Where rival solutions mistake the Key Benefits software development lifecycle for a total pic- ■■ Reduces cost of application downtime ture of the application, Micro Focus sees core Contact us at: related to performance issues in production delivery in the context of the complete appli- www.microfocus.com ■■ Supports performance testing of new cation lifecycle—from business idea through Like what you read? Share it. technologies together with your existing, retirement. Furthermore, by providing unified legacy applications management and automation solutions, Micro ■■ Accurately tests a mix of mobile and Focus offers customers not simply more tools Internet users, reducing the risk of and integrations, but greater simplicity. The performance bottleneck when bringing result for enterprise application teams is im- new mobile applications to production proved predictability, repeatability, quality, and change readiness in both the core and com- ■■ Decreases the risk of deploying systems plete lifecycle. that do not meet performance requirements Micro Focus Performance ■ Reduces hardware and software costs ■ Testing Offerings by accurately predicting application scalability and capacity Performance Testing from Anywhere, ■■ Helps you establish intelligent service-level for Any Size and Any Type of Environment agreements before applications go live The agility in how business wants IT to deliver has drastically increased. Micro Focus’s objec- ■■ Shortens test cycles to accelerate delivery tive is to provide a menu of options on perfor- of high-quality applications mance testing solutions to support any type of ■■ Pinpoints end-user, system-level, and code- environment, application, methodology, matu- level bottlenecks rapidly and with ease rity, and consumption model that the customer ■■ Reduces the cost of defects by testing have to allow them to accelerate the delivery earlier in the application lifecycle applications that perform with quality.

Micro Focus provides high-quality software LoadRunner Professional Helps and services that address all aspects of your software application lifecycle needs. With Detect Pre-Production Issues Micro Focus, you have access to standards- “With the help of LoadRunner based, modular, multiplatform software cou- Professional through load testing in pled with global services and support. general we have found many issues that we would not have been able To generate real-life loads and identify and di- agnose problems, visit: software.microfocus. to handle in production without com/software/performance-testing loss of service and business.” For an overview of Micro Focus software ser­vices, IT MANAGER visit: microfocus.com/softwareservices Large enterprise financial services company (TVID: F3E-C13-172) To access technical interactive support, visit Software Support Online at: www.microfocus. com/softwaresupportsvcs See what other customers are saying about the new Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional software. Learn more at microfocus.com/LoadRunner

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