Core Performance Engineering is an extremely scalable cloud-based load testing service for the fast-moving agile teams. Please check the subscription instructions in the Product Overview section before attempting to subscribe.
Overview
Core Performance Engineering on AWS is an extremely scalable cloud-based load testing service for the fast-moving agile teams. It scales to simulate over 5 million virtual users, supports a variety of Core Performance Engineering scripting options including VuGen, TruClient and TruWeb as well as JMeter, Gatling and Selenium, integrates with various CI and APM systems, is easy for developers and testers to use, uses machine learning to identify unusual application behavior, and simulates multiple geographic locations and network connection rates for more accurate testing. Subscription instructions: before you attempt to subscribe to Core Performance Engineering via AWS Market Place you must have an active Core Performance Engineering tenant. Once you have the tenant available and active, you can then proceed with above subscription process which will link your tenant to your AWS account. After you start the subscription process, you may need to log in to your OpenText account with your OpenText credentials.
Highlights
- Zero-footprint large scale testing from real world cloud locations.
- Real time analytics, anomaly detection and problem isolation, and integration with third party monitoring and analytics tools.
- Wide technology coverage, including open source scripting tools and integration with popular CI/CD tools.
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Pricing is based on actual usage, with charges varying according to how much you consume. Subscriptions have no end date and may be canceled any time.
Dimension | Cost/user/hour |
|---|---|
Dev Virtual User Hours | $0.15 |
Web Virtual User Hours | $0.30 |
GUI Virtual User Hours | $1.50 |
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Customer reviews
Aditya K.
The best feature is that we don't have to build and maintain infrastructure anymore
Reviewed on Jan 16, 2019
Purchase verified by AWS
The best benefit would be budget. It's a really inexpensive if you are testing your application every spring or every month. Even for less frequent applications that you have to test regularly. You can hook up your infrastructure to StormRunner Cloud and you can get the best of both worlds.
In larger enterprises, we have different departments using Performance Center and StormRunner or Selenium. So, StormRunner can act like an umbrella and plug-in everything, get it executed or done across the world. Since they use both HPE Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft, it uses more access points geographically to test it making it best of the class.
What is most valuable?
StormRunner itself is a pretty good hybrid product of Performance Center. Keeping up with DevOps, thus the best feature of StormRunner is that we don't have to build and maintain infrastructure anymore. Whenever we have to test lab scale applications, and in a scenario where we don't have to test every day, we don't have to build the machines and pay for it. Instead, we can get the infrastructure from on-demand from StormRunner, and its ability to run it anywhere just by opening it in browser is the best part. The evolution of StormRunner starting with supporting LoadRunner along with the open source technologies like JMeter and Selenium. Their unit testing tools are actually very advanced in the region of the product. That's why I would recommend anyone to use StormRunner, even though something is not supported now, eventually it's going to be supported by StormRunner. That's the kind of credibility that's needed for any customer when it comes to relying on a product or going for a new product.
What needs improvement?
More insight into test results and allowances. It might be a tailor-made requirement for me, but I would like to download them offline and do my own customizations on the reports. Right now, we have some standard templates that generates reports. But if I had to do some customizations, include something else and create a report, it's not easy. So, if I can an order to download the raw data I can make custom report. That would be the case with every customer because even though they tested one product it might be part of a big project and they need to have other information included in it along with the report, so feasibly it is good to have.
Also, it's evolving, where there's too many features for me to handle and it's too much on my plate to any make ROI out of it.
There is a steep learning curve for the product, too.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Over the last couple of years, it's been evolving. We started using more in the last one year and we see it's pretty stable. Adding new features to StormRunner is going to slow down once it has every feature. That has to do with stability and I don't see any drawback in that.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We haven't really hit any scalability issues by using StormRunner, but I just now heard that they can support two million users, which is kind of astonishing. The max I have used is 40,000 users, but two million is good, too. It's big step up from 40,000.
At the same time, you don't have to get the infrastructure built and set it up. For example, let's say you had to test it for one million users. You don't have to procure all of the machines you need for the one test you're going to do. You can do it on demand, that's the best thing. Two million is still very much overboard, but it's good to know. It's good to know that there's no limitation nearby.
How is customer service and technical support?
I'm not a big fan of the tech support to be frank. SaaS tech support (HPE tech support or Micro Focus), there's a gap between the people who access our tickets and the people who know the product. So, there is always a blind exchange of information within Micro Focus and most of the time get frustrated with the kind of ticket updates we get. What happens is the person handling the ticket might not be an expert in the product so we end up redoing everything. Communicating everything about our setup and infrastructure and the customer engagement for each ticket. Therefore, we started involving our technical correspondent with Micro Focus, but we're told that it's a pretty messy situation over there.
Which solutions did we use previously?
I always thought it would be good to have something like this from HPE because we rely a lot on HPE. Then, StormRunner was released and I knew where exactly it was going and what's it would be for us.
How was the initial setup?
I was involved in the initial setup. It was straightforward and there was a lot of good information available, but I did not need it. I didn't go through any support to set it up. The documentation itself was good.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
The other product we considered was BlazeMeter. We eventually chose StormRunner. I think only those two are pretty much in the market - nothing else.
What other advice do I have?
I like that StormRunner incorporates the idea of accepting and adapting all open sources. It is my understanding that they are planning to continue accepting, supporting, and adapting all open sources.
For someone evaluating StormRunner and similar products, there are two parameters I would tell him to evaluate:
* Is the application under test? Is it customer facing?
* Is how often do you test it?
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Chris S.
Enables us to check response times for applications from locations around the world
Reviewed on Jan 14, 2019
Purchase verified by AWS
We use it to get response times around the world for external applications. We use it on top of our own virtual users for remote site testing. We include it in our scenarios in our performance center and use the results in the LoadRunner analysis tool.
How has it helped my organization?
We can determine response times for our external applications, from most places around the world, for a small fee.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature is having load generators in countries where we don’t have access to them.
What needs improvement?
An area for improvement is analytics on why response times are slow from certain countries. Slowness can be caused by the laptop, the connection, the VPN, the internal network, the country's internet, etc.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It has been stable every time I have used it. We don’t put much stress on it since we have our own performance center and load generators.
How was the initial setup?
In terms of integration and configuration of the product in our AWS environment, it is the easiest Micro Focus tool I have ever used.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is very reasonable and the licensing is straightforward.
You decide on the number of virtual users you will need to support multiple runs or for a year and purchase that quality of virtual-user hours. We chose to procure this solution via the AWS Marketplace because of remote site testing and low cost.
What other advice do I have?