OpenText Silk Test vs OpenText UFT One comparison

OpenText Silk Test and OpenText UFT One are both solutions in the Functional Testing Tools category. OpenText Silk Test is ranked #18 with an average rating of 8.0, while OpenText UFT One is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.2. OpenText Silk Test holds a 1.0% mindshare in FT, compared to OpenText UFT One’s 10.0% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of OpenText Silk Test users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of OpenText UFT One users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

OpenText UFT One and OpenText Silk Test compete in the test automation software category. Based on the features, UFT One may have the upper hand due to its comprehensive capabilities across various technologies, even though both products offer strong ROI and efficiency improvements.

Features: OpenText UFT One supports a wide range of technologies and applications, including HTML5, Flex, and multiple browsers. It enhances testing with UFT Flex Runtime Loader and Object Spy for superior object identification. It provides comprehensive automation across GUI, API, and business components. OpenText Silk Test offers powerful scripting and object recognition with Java and C# support. It features a strong test case and application state management system, providing efficiency and speed.

Room for Improvement: OpenText UFT One faces limitations in supporting .NET applications and can be slow on virtual machines. Improvements are needed in browser compatibility and object identification reliability. OpenText Silk Test lacks support for the latest UI technologies and needs better integration with IDEs. Its pricing is high, and support for distributed version control systems is limited.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both products are used primarily in on-premises settings, with some cloud availability. UFT One's customer service varies, with some escalation necessary for complex issues. Silk Test users report mixed experiences with technical support for complex problems. OpenText's support service management is generally prompt, though effectiveness depends on user contracts and urgency.

Pricing and ROI: OpenText UFT One is often considered expensive but worth the investment due to its wide range of supported technologies and strong ROI from reduced manual testing. It offers various licensing options, including seat and concurrent licenses. Silk Test's cost is high but competitive with market solutions, providing good ROI especially for desktop automation projects. Both products enhance efficiency, leading to faster regression testing and long-term cost benefits.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

OpenText Silk Test

Ranking in Functional Testing Tools

18th

Ranking in Regression Testing Tools

8th

Ranking in Test Automation Tools

20th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

OpenText UFT One

Ranking in Functional Testing Tools

2nd

Ranking in Regression Testing Tools

3rd

Ranking in Test Automation Tools

2nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Mobile App Testing Tools (2nd), API Testing Tools (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Functional Testing Tools category, the mindshare of OpenText Silk Test is 1.0%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText UFT One is 10.0%, up from 9.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

SrinivasPakala

Director Consulting Expert at Cgi Deutschland KG

Stable, with good statistics and detailed reporting available

While we are performance testing the engineering key, we need to come up with load strategies to commence the test. We'll help to monitor the test, and afterward, we'll help to make all the outcomes, and if they are new, we'll do lots and lots of interpretation and analysis across various servers, to look at response times, and impact. For example, whatever the observations we had during the test, we need to implement it. We'll have to help to catch what exactly is the issues were, and we'll help to see how they can be reduced. Everything is very manual. It's up to us to find out exactly what the issues are. The solution needs better monitoring, especially of CPU.

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Don Ingerson

QA Automation Engineer at Global Fortune 500 Company

With regularly occurring releases, a QA team member can schedule tests, let the tests run unattended, and then examine the results

With certainty, the best feature of UFT is its compatibility with so many products, tools and technologies. It is a challenge currently to find a single tool on the market besides UFT that will successfully work for so many projects and environments. For example, UFT supports GUI testing of Oracle, PeopleSoft, PowerBuilder, SAP (v7.20), Siebel, Stingray, Terminal Emulator, Putty, and Windows Objects (particularly Dialog Boxes). Furthermore, UFT has the built-in functionality to import Excel input files. For Web browsers, UFT 12.54 supports IE9, IE10, IE11, Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome (versions 31.0 to 54.9), Firefox (versions 27.0 to 49.0). Besides GUI testing, UFT supports database testing and API testing (Docker, WSDL, and SOAP). For the first time ever, HP started to expand the testing capabilities of UFT (QTP) beyond Windows beginning with UFT 12.00. A UFT user can now run tests on Web applications on a Safari browser that is running on a remote Mac computer.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The major thing it has helped with is to reduce the workload on testing activities."

"The statistics that are available are very good."

"A good automation tool that supports SAP functional testing."

"The scalability of the solution is quite good. You can easily expand the product if you need to."

"The ability to develop scripts in Visual Studio, Visual Studio integration, is the most valuable feature."

"It's easy to automate and accelerate testing."

"Scripting is the most valuable. We are able to record and then go in and modify the script that it creates. It has a lot of generative scripts."

"The feature I like most is the ease of reporting."

"UFT provides object identification, which is one of the easiest to use."

"The OpenText solution is the best of breed and the best solution on the market for large customers."

"I like the fact that you can record and play the record of your step scripts, and UFT One creates the steps for you in the code base. After that, you can alter the code, and it's more of a natural language code."

"The most valuable features for us are the GUI, the easy identification of objects, and folder structure creation."

"The most valuable feature is that it is fast during test execution, unlike LoadRunner."

"For traditional automation, approximately half of our tests end up automated. Therefore, we are saving half the testing time by pushing it off to automation. That gives it an intrinsic benefit of more time for manual testers and business testers to work on possibly more important and interesting things. For some of our applications, they don't just have to do happy path testing anymore, they can go more in-depth and breadth into the process."

"Compared to other products, UFT One is better, faster, and more accurate."

"With frequent releases, using automation to perform regression testing can save us huge amount of time and resources."

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Cons

"Could be more user-friendly on the installation and configuration side."

"We moved to Ranorex because the solution did not easily scale, and we could not find good and short term third-party help. We needed to have a bigger pool of third-party contractors that we could draw on for specific implementations. Silk didn't have that, and we found what we needed for Ranorex here in the Houston area. It would be good if there is more community support. I don't know if Silk runs a user conference once a year and how they set up partners. We need to be able to talk to somebody more than just on the phone. It really comes right down to that. The generated automated script was highly dependent upon screen position and other keys that were not as robust as we wanted. We found the automated script generated by Ranorex and the other key information about a specific data point to be more robust. It handled the transition better when we moved from computer to computer and from one size of the application to the other size. When we restarted Silk, we typically had to recalibrate screen elements within the script. Ranorex also has some of these same issues, but when we restart, it typically is faster, which is important."

"The support for automation with iOS applications can be better."

"The pricing is an issue, the program is very expensive. That is something that can improve."

"The solution has a lack of compatibility with newer technologies."

"The pricing could be improved."

"They should extend some of the functions that are a bit clunky and improve the integration."

"Everything is very manual. It's up to us to find out exactly what the issues are."

"It could work with more browsers other than Internet Explorer, and could better handle new things like Ext JS."

"Sometimes, the results' file size can be intense. I wish it was a little more compact."

"We used to run it as a test suite. Micro Focus provides that in terms of a test management tool as ALM, but when we think of integrating with a distributed version control system, like Jenkins, there isn't much integration available. That means we need to make use of external solutions to make it work."

"[Tech support is] not a 10 because what happens with some of our issues is that we might not get a patch quickly and we have to hold on to an application until we get a proper solution."

"It doesn't support Telerik UI controls and we are currently looking for a patch for this."

"UFT still requires some coding."

"The artificial intelligence functionality is applicable only on the web, and it should be expanded to cover non-web applications as well."

"One of the drawbacks is that mobile performance testing is in need of improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We paid annually. There is a purchase cost, and then there is an ongoing maintenance fee."

"Our licensing fees are on a yearly basis, and while I think that the price is quite reasonable I am not allowed to share those details."

"It took about five years to break even. UFT is costly."

"For the price of five automation licenses, you simply would not be able to hire five manual testers for two years worth of 24/7 manual testing work on demand."

"It's an expensive solution."

"The solution is priced reasonably for what features it is providing. However, it might be expensive for some."

"The pricing fee is good. If someone makes use of the solution once a day for a half hour then the fee will be more expensive. For continuous use and application of the solution to different use cases, the fee is average."

"Compared to other products, the solution is very expensive."

"OpenText UFT One is a very expensive solution."

"HPE recently extended the demo license period from 30 days to 60 days which was a very wise and popular decision to give potential customers more time to install it and try it for free. Even if your company has a salesperson come in and demo UFT, I would highly encourage at least one of your developers or automation engineers to download and install it to explore for themselves the functionality and features included during the demo trial period."

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QA Expert at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Nov 11, 2013

QTP vs SilkTest WorkBench

The last few months, I've been working with the Silk Tools (particularly the WorkBench .NET variant IDE) and I must say that I like what I've been using. The libraries provided by Silk are quite good for your typical automation and when you run into custom applications, the .NET IDE (which is…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

18%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

19%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Silk Test?

The pricing depends on the license used. The pricing is similar to others in the market.

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What needs improvement with Silk Test?

The pricing could be improved.

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What is your primary use case for Silk Test?

The product is used for manual, functional, and performance testing. I'm using the tool for loading data into ERP systems.

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How does Micro Focus UFT One compare to Tricentis Tosca?

We reviewed MicroFocus UFT One but ultimately chose to use Tricentis Tosca because we needed API testing. MicroFocus UFT is a performance and functional testing tool. We tested it, and it was well...

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What do you like most about Micro Focus UFT One?

My company has not had an issue with OpenText UFT One since we have been using it for the past three to four years.

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What needs improvement with Micro Focus UFT One?

UFT still requires some coding. If it could move closer to a no-code or low-code solution, it might dominate the market again. Additionally, customer support could be improved as they take days to ...

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Also Known As

Segue, SilkTest, Micro Focus Silk Test

Micro Focus UFT One, Micro Focus UFT (QTP), QTP, Quick Test Pro

Overview

SilkTest is robust and portable test automation for web, native, and enterprise software applications. Silk Test's portability enables users to test applications more effectively with lower complexity and cost in comparison to other functional testing tools on the market. Silk Test's role based testing enables business stakeholders, QA engineers, and developers to contribute to the whole automation testing process, which drives collaboration and increases the effectiveness of software testing.

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Our AI-powered functional testing tool accelerates test automation. It works across desktop, web, mobile, mainframe, composite, and packaged enterprise-grade applications.

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