Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO; NYSE: MFGP) today unveiled the new LoadRunner family, a unified set of enterprise-grade performance engineering solutions spanning developers to performance engineers, incorporating intelligent analytics and supporting extensive integrations with DevOps and application performance monitoring (APM) tools. With the LoadRunner family of solutions, organizations are equipped to design better performing software from the start as they quickly root out issues and deploy high-performing applications.
To meet the demands of rapid application delivery, modern software teams need an evolved approach that goes beyond traditional performance testing. Micro Focus supports a proactive, continuous performance engineering discipline that includes four key attributes: expansion of performance testing to new roles, integration into the CI/CD process, end-to-end performance monitoring, and continuous improvement. According to the December 2019 (originally published in June 2018) Gartner Report: Adopt a Performance Engineering Approach for DevOps: “By 2021, organizations that have embraced a performance engineering approach for application development will outperform the competition that has not, in both customer satisfaction and business results.”
Saurabh Saxena, Country Director – India, Micro Focus said, “Some of the most load intensive applications in India – from citizen facing government applications to the largest banking and telecom applications, are tested and optimized for performance using Micro Focus solutions. With this release of the LoadRunner family, we reaffirm the commitment to our customers by bringing more value through innovative features and integrations within the DevOps ecosystem.”
“Building on our legacy in performance testing, the LoadRunner family lets our customers engineer performance early in the lifecycle all the way through the end-user experience,” said Raffi Margaliot, Micro Focus Senior Vice President Application Delivery Management. “An integral part of the strategy was also streamlining the architecture and improving the user experience to enable greater collaboration and flexibility across our LoadRunner solutions.”
Micro Focus LoadRunner family capabilities enable users to:
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Implement a proactive performance strategy – Mitigating performance risks requires testing at all stages. LoadRunner solutions match different skill sets and foster greater adoption from developers, dev testers, performance engineers and QA.
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Seamlessly collaborate, share and reuse – LoadRunner’s new shared and open architecture breaks down siloes between users, teams, and tools. Scripts, scenarios, and load generators are easily shared across solutions to maximize reuse, minimize duplication, and improve collaboration.
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Optimize performance with community analysis – A centralized approach to test data collection allows teams to connect the dots between developer, CI, and end-to-end performance tests. Through data visualization, teams can view real-time results and manipulate data to make smarter decisions.
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Scale with broad support – LoadRunner supports more than 50 application protocols and technologies and over 52 scripting technologies, integrating with open source CI/CD tools, and enhancing data visualization with Grafana and InfluxDB.
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Adjust licensing based on need – The LoadRunner family is now more affordable and enables teams to share licenses between the products, and rapidly scale up or down based on seasonal or ad hoc demands.
