

There is too much reliance on third party scripting components, and a lack of comprehensive analysis. These are protocols that would support upgrading.
#JMETER VS NEOLOAD SOFTWARE#
However, it has huge gaps in functionality that Enterprise customers with legacy software still need. For those of us who actually do the performance testing, we know Flood is good for what it does. THE MAJOR blindspot with Flood is the lack of protocol support outside of web/HTTP. You see how this isn’t a great thing for Tricentis to virtually invite competitors to their clients? If I am a client, I’m then asking the solutions partner, “If I have to use another product for SAP GUI, then why don’t I just use that product for my web stuff too?” At which point the solution partner shrugs and plays dumb, not biting the hand that feeds it. LoadRunner or Neoload) to accomplish just the parts that Flood doesn’t. They will advise to use another product (i.e. This seems to indicate that SAP Load Testing is a full-featured solution – but only for “modern cloud applications”? During the sales cycle, what happens when customers ask the sales engineers how they will handle testing legacy projects? Once the awkward silence becomes intolerable, the response would be to have a solutions partner handle it from there.

“ SAP Load Testing by Tricentis – Optimizes the SAP user experience with scalable, on-demand performance testing for SAP Fiori® and modern cloud applications, such as SAP® SuccessFactors® and SAP® Ariba® solutions.” What struck me in the announcement was the way Tricentis solutions were packaged for SAP®, specifically performance: When I read the SAP announcement, I immediately had questions about it and posted on LinkedIn: The merger with QA Symphony added a Quality Center alternative, and the acquisition of Flood.io was to complete the holy trinity of QA management and automation with a performance testing solution. Those familiar with Tricentis know its beginnings as a functional automation solution (Tosca), which goes head to head with Micro Focus Unified Functional Test (UFT). It’s always been obvious that Tricentis has had the original Mercury suite squarely in its sites – no matter what company the products are currently licensed through. There has been serious heartburn about this for the past 24 months, and many long-time customers in the Fortune 2000 have decided to drop their maintenance renewals and look for answers elsewhere.
