Selenium Vs UFT/QTP, Selenium is an Open source tool, UFT is a Commercial tool, Selenium supports web testing, and UFT supports Desktop & web testing.
Selenium Vs UFT
UFT | Selenium |
1. UFT is a Commercial Test Tool, supports Functional Testing. | 1. Selenium is a suite of Tools, supports Functional Testing. |
2. Unified Functional Testing is a Commercial Tool, Vendor is Micro Focus. | 2. Selenium is an Open source software released under Apache 2.0 License (Free to use) |
3. UFT Supports Test Automation for Desktop, Web, and Mobile Applications. | 3. Selenium Supports Test Automation for Web Applications only. |
4. UFT supports VBScript for applying programming features to Tests. | 4. Selenium supports Java, C#, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, and Kotlin programming languages to write Test cases. |
5. Automation cost is expensive due to license cost. | 5. Since it is Open source software, Automation cost is inexpensive. |
6. Since It is Vendor Tool, we can get reliable technical support from the vendor (HP). | 6. Since it is Open source software there is no reliable Technical support. |
7. UFT is user-friendly, Tests can be developed quickly. | 7. Tests require more time to develop and maintain. |
8. Tests can be easily executed on the latest version of the UFT Tool also. | 8. Tests need to be updated due to new API changes in the latest versions. |
9. UFT integrates with ALM / Quality Center (Test Management Tool). | 9. There is no tool that integrates with Selenium. |
10. New features will work properly and Knowledge sharing is easy. | 10. New Features may not work properly and Knowledge sharing is difficult. |
11. UFT supports the Windows operating environment only. It doesn’t support other operating environments like UNIX and Mac. | 11. Selenium supports Windows, UNIX, and Mac operating environments. |
12. Image-based tests are easy in UFT. | 12. Image-based Tests are possible but difficult. |
13. UFT uses more hardware resources. | 13. Selenium uses fewer hardware resources. |
14. UFT has an authorized Certification program. | 14. There is no authorized Certification Program. |
Selenium Vs UFT/QTP
Selenium is an Open source test tool for functional testing of web applications, it supports Java, Python, C#, Ruby, JavaScript, and Kotlin programming languages for writing test cases.
UFT (formerly QTP) is a commercial test tool that supports Desktop, web, and mobile applications, it supports VBScript for writing test scripts.