OpenText UFT Developer vs SmartBear TestComplete comparison

OpenText and SmartBear are both solutions in the Test Automation Tools category. OpenText is ranked #14 with an average rating of 8.3, while SmartBear is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.6. OpenText holds a 2.7% mindshare in TAt, compared to SmartBear’s 6.5% mindshare. Additionally, 76% of OpenText users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of SmartBear users who would recommend it.

OpenText UFT Developer

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76% willing to recommend

SmartBear TestComplete

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3,862 Comparison Views

87% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between OpenText UFT Developer and SmartBear TestComplete based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Test Automation Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed OpenText UFT Developer vs. SmartBear TestComplete Report (Updated: November 2024).

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OpenText UFT Developer vs. SmartBear TestComplete

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Categories and Ranking

OpenText UFT Developer

Ranking in Functional Testing Tools

15th

Ranking in Test Automation Tools

14th

Average Rating

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

SmartBear TestComplete

Ranking in Functional Testing Tools

7th

Ranking in Test Automation Tools

6th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Regression Testing Tools (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Test Automation Tools category, the mindshare of OpenText UFT Developer is 2.7%, down from 2.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SmartBear TestComplete is 6.5%, down from 7.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Mohamed Bosri

Process Architect Referent at Forvia

Efficient recording feature shines amid expected desktop and website enhancements

Our use case involves functionality for a system ERP. We work with Deviation, which is stable and receives positive feedback from users OpenText UFT Developer allows junior testers to learn through open source and online resources like YouTube. They can find solutions to issues even if the…

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Prakhar Goel

Sr Test Lead at Emerson

Used for integration automation, user-based automation, and web automation

The solution's most valuable features are the drag-and-drop feature, keyword-driven approach, and reusability of the scripts. The solution has introduced a new feature that helps us identify objects we cannot normally identify. It gives you a fair idea of objects, resolving the object recognition issue. The solution can be used to perform different tests on different machines.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable feature of Micro Focus UFT Developer is the flexibility to work with many different types of software."

"OpenText UFT Developer works well with record technology, making it valuable for recording."

"One aspect that I like about Micro Focus UFT Developer is the ability to integrate it into a testing framework as a library."

"Integrates well with other products."

"It's a complete pursuit and it's a logical pursuit working with HPE."

"The recording feature is quite good as it helps us to find out how things are working."

"It is quite stable, and it has got very user-friendly features, which are important in terms of maintaining our scripts from a long-term perspective. It is very stable for desktop-based, UI-based, and mobile applications. Object repositories and other features are also quite good."

"One of the important features, which speeds up the automation testing development with LeanFT, is its object repository functions. Object identification are the most time-consuming aspect of building automation tests. LeanFT gives that out of the box. It helps you identify the objects and after that, once you got the object in place, then it's just about building the test scripts. So it reduces your development time significantly."

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"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ability to integrate with Azure DevOps for continuous integration and deployment."

"The most valuable feature is the integration with Azure DevOps."

"The solution is mainly stable."

"Recording and playback of tests were easier with SmartBear TestComplete...It is a scalable solution."

"The product has many features."

"TestComplete fits almost perfectly with a large amount of stacks, such as Delphi, C#, Java and web applications."

"The product's initial setup phase was easy."

"This company offers end-to-end capabilities for test suite creation and execution. One feature that I particularly appreciate is the tagging system. Tags are highly valuable, as they allow you to assign tags to your test cases. When there's an impact in a specific area, you can search for and run all test cases associated with that tag. I find this functionality very useful."

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Cons

"The solution could improve by working better with desktop applications and websites."

"Stability depends on the company's infrastructure and end-to-end infrastructure. When I used the tool in my project, we had a big problem with many users using it simultaneously."

"There's room for improvement, especially when I compare OpenText to newer tools like NeoLoad."

"The price of the solution could improve."

"The support from Micro Focus needs a lot of improvement."

"UFT Developer is good, but it requires high-level development skills. Scripting is something that everybody should know to be able to work with this product. Currently, it is very development intensive, and you need to know various scripting languages. It would be good if the development effort could be cut short, and it can be scriptless like Tosca. It will help in more adoption because not every team has people with a software engineering background. If it is scriptless, the analysts who wear multiple hats and come from different backgrounds can also use it in a friendly manner. It is also quite expensive."

"The product has shown no development over the past 10 or 15 years."

"The pricing could be improved."

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"We were testing handheld barcode scanners running WindowsCE with many menus of warehouse functions, and our biggest problem was the timing between input and responses."

"In SmartBear TestComplete the integration with Jenkins could be easier. Additionally, some of the controls could have better customization options. For example, if a grid is used and it contains multiple controls within it, it can be a checkbox, radio button, or any kind of control, the way the Object Spy is operating currently there is a lot of room for improvement."

"The recording function, when using Python, could be improved, as it does not work well in recording testing."

"Stability issues occurred only when connecting to the SourceSafe. Sometimes, after getting the latest version, the tool hangs and it should be reopened in order to recover."

"Right now, when you buy the solution, you need to pay for one solution. You receive one set up and you install it and it's just in that one machine. It would be ideal if they could offer one subscription where you can connect to different machines with a group subscription."

"During the distribution of our regression test cases, the control IDs are not always recognized correctly."

"The pricing is the constraint."

"To bring it up to a 10, I would be looking for the addition of some key functional API testing."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is quite expensive and is priced per seat or in concurrent (or floating) licenses over a period of months."

"The price of the solution could be lowered. The cost is approximately $25 per year for a subscription-based license."

"The licensing is very expensive, so often, we don't have enough VMs to run all of our tests."

"The pricing is quite high compared to the competition."

"Its cost is a bit high. From the licensing perspective, I am using a concurrent license. It is not a seed license. It is something that I can use in our network. It can also be used by other users."

"When we compare in the market with other tools that have similar features, it may be a little bit extra, but the cost is ten times less."

"If I would rate it with one being inexpensive and ten being expensive, I would rate pricing an eight out of ten."

"It is cheap, but if you take the enterprise license, it is valid for both software items."

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"The solution is around $1500. Some are perpetual licenses, and some get a yearly report card."

"The license price for a physical machine is cheap, and for virtual machine, it is very expensive."

"The price is less, compared to other products, such as QTP."

"The solution's licensing cost has increased because it has moved to some new SLM-based licenses."

"It comes with a high cost."

"Buy modules on demand. If you have a four-person team and they will each automate tests only 25% of the time, it's better to buy a floating licence and share the tool during the work day."

"The option we chose was around $2,000 USD."

"It costs a few hundred per year, but I am not sure. It is not at all expensive as compared to other tools."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

19%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Government

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By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Micro Focus UFT Developer?

There are many good things. Like it is intuitive and scripting was easy. Plus the availability of experienced resources in India due to its market leadership.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus UFT Developer?

It's a high-priced solution compared to Selenium. Selenium is free, though there is a paid version now too. Selenium has improved a lot, and it's still okay to use. It's a functional testing tool, ...

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What needs improvement with Micro Focus UFT Developer?

There's room for improvement, especially when I compare OpenText to newer tools like NeoLoad. NeoLoad is a strong competitor to LoadRunner and it's very fast. It saves a lot of time when creating s...

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What do you like most about SmartBear TestComplete?

TestComplete has strong reporting capabilities. The reports they generate are really good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SmartBear TestComplete?

The solution's pricing is too high. On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing nine and a half out of ten.

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What needs improvement with SmartBear TestComplete?

The learning curve of the solution's user interface is a little high for new users.

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Micro Focus UFT Developer, UFT Pro (LeanFT), Micro Focus UFT Pro (LeanFT), LeanFT, HPE LeanFT

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Overview

With OpenText UFT Developer, you get object identification tools, parallel testing, and record/replay capabilities.

What is SmartBear TestComplete?

TestComplete is a reliable, sturdy automated testing platform created by SmartBear Software. SmartBear Software is a worldwide technological leader known for developing quality enterprise-class development and testing solutions.

TestComplete simplifies the process of creating tests for numerous applications, including, but not limited to; Desktop, Android, IOS, Web browsers, and Windows. Application tests can be manual, scripted, and even recorded by using keyword-driven or data-driven functionality. There are even additional options for error reporting and automated playback. The object repository is extremely accurate and is fully customizable. TestComplete can easily be used by experienced developers and even by manual novice testers to develop quality automated UI tests quickly.

TestComplete offers three different testing scenarios:

Desktop: Users can easily and quickly automate UI tests using today’s most popular desktop applications, such as; Windows, Java, Python,.Net, VBScript, and more.
Web: Users can effortlessly create renewable tests for all of today’s popular web applications, including JavaScript frameworks on 2000+ trusted browser and platform integrations.
Mobile: Users can safely build and automate serviceable UI tests on actual or virtual android or IOS devices, locally or in the cloud. Users can create code or codeless tests. TestComplete seamlessly integrates with many of today’s popular frameworks.

Key Features

Easily create automated UI tests: TestComplete offers scriptless Record and Replay or simple keyword-driven tests to quickly develop any type of UI test users may require. Tests can be recorded once, then replayed when needed across various applications on mobile, web, or desktop environments. TestComplete integrates with many different languages, such as Java, Python, C+, and more.
Keyword driven tests: Users can easily divide testing steps, actions, objects, and data with an integrated keyword-driven test structure. This makes it easy for every user to participate in the test automation process; there is no programming experience needed. Everything is made simple with easy-to-use point-and-click options.
Data driven tests: Easily distinguish data from test commands to keep administrative efforts simple. Users can improve overall coverage by running various automated mobile, desktop, or web UI tests.
Record and Replay: Users can reuse created automated tests across every environment as often as desired. This helps to expand overall test coverage and represents a huge cost and time savings.

Reviews from Real Users

Sandhiya T S., Sr Solutions Engineer at Lexington Soft, relates, “The record and replay aspects of the solution are quite useful for people. With them, you don't have to write any scripts. Basically, you can record your actions and play them back later. The initial setup is also very easy.”

Sai S R., Staff Test Architect at a tech services company, says, "The most valuable features of the SmartBear TestComplete are self-healing, they reduce the maintenance required. The different languages SmartBear TestComplete supports are good because some of our libraries are written in Python, JavaScript, and C#. It's very easy to put them all under one project and use them."

Sample Customers

Walmart, Hitachi, American Airlines, PepsiCo, AT&T, Ericsson, United Airlines

Cisco, J.P. Morgan, Boeing, McAfee, EMC, Intuit, and Thomson Reuters.

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