LoadRunner hasn’t disappeared, it’s called OpenText Performance Engineering, and it’s leading the next chapter of performance engineering (again). For more than 30 years, LoadRunner has set the standard for testing application scalability and reliability. It’s a name recognized across industries and a solution trusted by performance engineers worldwide. Now, as part of OpenText, LoadRunner solutions continue to build on their modern, future ready foundation, adding new capabilities and integrations to help organizations meet the evolving demands of today’s digital enterprises.
From LoadRunner to OpenText performance engineering
The LoadRunner family has always been about helping teams test performance at scale, reduce risk, and deliver high quality digital experiences. That hasn’t changed. What has changed are the product names, reflecting how they now fit into OpenText’s broader portfolio of enterprise software:
- LoadRunner Cloud is now OpenText™ Core Performance Engineering
- LoadRunner Professional is now OpenText™ Professional Performance Engineering
- LoadRunner Enterprise is now OpenText Enterprise™ Performance Engineering
Each solution continues to offer the strengths customers have come to depend on: comprehensive protocol coverage, real world load simulation, and enterprise class scalability. Customers can choose to keep using these solutions individually, or connect them to the OpenText™ Core Software Delivery Platform, where performance engineering becomes part of a modular, platform-wide system for planning, testing, release, and security.
The LoadRunner strengths you can always count on
Customers sometimes worry that a new name means a different product. That’s not the case here. The LoadRunner tools remain the same solutions performance engineers know and trust. They still:
- Deliver distributed, large-scale testing across cloud and on prem environments
- Provide advanced analytics, dashboards, and trend reporting
- Support a wide range of applications, protocols, and use cases
- Integrate with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows
If your team has invested in LoadRunner over the years, that investment continues to pay off. Your scripts, scenarios, and processes remain fully supported.
Powerful new features
While the foundation remains solid, the LoadRunner products are far from standing still. OpenText is investing heavily in new features that make performance engineering faster, smarter, and easier to scale. Recent releases include:
- AI assisted analysis to speed up root cause identification and reduce time spent troubleshooting with OpenText Core Performance Engineering Analysis
- TruClient 2.0 for browser-based testing breaks down barriers for testers of all skill levels, allowing experts and beginners alike to create and run tests with no code while supporting modern web technologies
- AI powered scripting to create, update, and troubleshoot scripts using plain words, providing clear guidance, error explanations, and suggested fixes
- Enhanced protocol support to maintain the widest range of protocols in the industry, including web, mobile, API, ERP, and custom enterprise applications
- LLM protocol for performance engineering was built from the ground up to simulate, measure, and analyze real‑world load on applications with an embedded large language models
These AI capabilities aren’t standalone. They’re part of DevOps Aviator, the intelligence layer of the OpenText DevOps Cloud solutions. Aviator copilots extend insight and automation across the lifecycle, and performance engineering is one of the clearest examples: helping teams not only run tests faster but anticipate risks earlier and make more confident release decisions.
Proof in practice
The impact is already clear in the market. DATEV accelerated performance testing adoption across its teams, running 17x more tests per week with OpenText Core Performance Engineering. Cencora reported a 98% improvement in application performance, translating directly into smoother digital experiences for its customers.
And OpenText itself relies on these same solutions. Through the OpenText trusts OpenText program, more than 7,000 engineers use the DevOps Core Software Delivery platform—including Performance Engineering—to validate scale, speed, and quality across the entire software delivery lifecycle. This internal deployment standardizes pipelines, secures development with embedded testing, and continuously feeds improvements back into the products.
Q&A: common questions about LoadRunner
| Question | Answer |
| Is LoadRunner gone? | No. The tools are still actively supported and developed. What has changed are the names. |
| What are the new names for LoadRunner? | LoadRunner Cloud is now OpenText™ Core Performance Engineering LoadRunner Professional is now OpenText™ Professional Performance Engineering LoadRunner Enterprise is now OpenText Enterprise™ Performance Engineering LoadRunner Developer is now OpenText Performance Engineering for Developers |
| Where can I find documentation or community content? | Documentation and updates are available across multiple sources: the OpenText blog, the DevOps Community blog, and the ADM Help Center. |
| What if I’m upgrading from an older LoadRunner version? | You can upgrade directly into the new OpenText branded versions. Backward compatibility for assets and scripts is maintained so your existing investments remain intact. |
| Are there new features I should be aware of? | Yes. Recent releases introduced TruClient 2.0 for browser-based testing, AI assisted analysis, AI-powered scripting, enhanced protocol support, and much more. |
| How often are new releases available? | OpenText continues to follow a regular cadence of updates for all performance engineering products, delivering new features, optimizations, and protocol support several times per year. |
| Can I still use LoadRunner terminology when talking with OpenText? | Absolutely. The LoadRunner name is widely recognized in the industry. OpenText teams and communities understand both the legacy and the current product names. |
| Where can I find a list of all OpenText product names? | OpenText maintains a comprehensive product name decoder on its website that includes all LoadRunner names, all DevOps Cloud (ADM) product names, and other OpenText products across the company. It’s a helpful reference for understanding legacy names and their current OpenText equivalents. |
Leading the next era of performance engineering
So what happened to LoadRunner? It hasn’t disappeared. It has evolved. Under OpenText performance engineering, the LoadRunner family continues to deliver world-class performance engineering with expanded functionality, deeper integrations, and AI-driven insights powered by DevOps Aviator.
The power is in your hands. You can keep running the tools individually, exactly as before, or expand into the OpenText Core Software Delivery Platform, where performance engineering integrates with modules for planning, functional testing, security, insights, and more.
For customers who know and trust LoadRunner, the foundation you rely on is still here. What’s different is the pace of innovation and the breadth of capability, strengthened by OpenText investment and product vision. This continued leadership is recognized in analyst reports such as GigaOm for Cloud Performance Testing, where OpenText performance engineering solutions consistently outperforms competitors.
These solutions remain the gold standard for performance engineering. With OpenText, it is shaping the future of quality at scale.
See it in action
- Request an OpenText Core Performance Engineering free trial
- Request an OpenText Professional Performance Engineering free trial
- Request an OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering demo
