There should be no doubt that purchasing LoadRunner licenses is expensive. How Mercury/HP has achieved this stranglehold on the market is strange to behold but it is the way it is.

Needless to say, in another purchasing license cycle I jokingly said to a colleague [...]]]> No this is not a post on how to get free licenses…

There should be no doubt that purchasing LoadRunner licenses is expensive. How Mercury/HP has achieved this stranglehold on the market is strange to behold but it is the way it is.

Needless to say, in another purchasing license cycle I jokingly said to a colleague that it would probably be cheaper to fly to India, hire some office space and PCs, give some training to 100 production workers and pay them 3 months wage to facilitate your whole test effort using real people and PCs. You’d still probably come out ahead of a typical yearly budget for HP products… Or would you?

Estimates in AUD…
Average Indian production worker yearly salary, $2,192
Office space in Pune per month, $753
Return business class flights for me and a business partner/trainer, $12,000
Rental PC/laptop fleet per month, $10,000

Average cost of test effort over 3 months would be $105,000

I think you might come out with some change from that…

Wake up …