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OpenText UFT One vs Parasoft SOAtest comparison

OpenText and Parasoft are both solutions in the Functional Testing Tools category. OpenText is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.2, while Parasoft is ranked #21 with an average rating of 7.0. OpenText holds a 9.9% mindshare in FT, compared to Parasoft’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of OpenText users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Parasoft users who would recommend it.
OpenText UFT One
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88% willing to recommend
Parasoft SOAtest
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92% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

OpenText UFT One and Parasoft SOAtest are leading tools in the software testing market. While OpenText UFT One is noted for its reasonable pricing and strong support, Parasoft SOAtest's superior features make it a choice worth the higher price for many users.

Features: OpenText UFT One is known for comprehensive automation capabilities, broad technology support, and integration with CI/CD pipelines. Parasoft SOAtest offers robust SOA and API testing features, comprehensive reporting, and service virtualization. Users prefer Parasoft SOAtest for its specialized functionalities despite the broad functionality of OpenText UFT One.

Room for Improvement: OpenText UFT One needs more frequent updates, a lighter footprint, and better performance for extensive test suites. Parasoft SOAtest users suggest improvements in ease of learning and intuitive navigation. OpenText UFT One users desire better performance, whereas Parasoft SOAtest users focus on ease of use.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenText UFT One is recognized for straightforward deployment but might require customization for optimal performance. Customer service is responsive, helping with deployment issues. Parasoft SOAtest users report a more seamless deployment experience and prompt, helpful customer service. Parasoft SOAtest stands out for deployment ease with robust support during deployment phases.

Pricing and ROI: OpenText UFT One users find the pricing reasonable, aligning it with positive ROI due to its broad capabilities. Parasoft SOAtest is viewed as more expensive, but users justify the cost with high ROI from specialized features and efficiency gains. Price-conscious users favor OpenText UFT One, but ROI-centric users lean towards Parasoft SOAtest.

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Review summaries and opinions

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ROI

Sentiment score
7.5
OpenText UFT One enhances efficiency and productivity with automation, AI capabilities, and supports achieving up to 300% ROI.
Sentiment score
7.8
Parasoft SOAtest improved testing efficiency, reduced manual effort, automated testing, and enhanced software quality, making it essential for users.
The development time using UFT can be cut down into half as compared to coding from scratch.
Automation is done very fast, leading to improvements in the QA process and reducing the time needed for test automation.
We can easily achieve a return on investment in one, two, or three years.
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Badari Mallireddy - PeerSpot reviewer
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Pierre CAHAY - PeerSpot reviewer
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.2
OpenText UFT One's customer service is generally efficient but inconsistent, with varied experiences in support quality and response time.
Sentiment score
7.8
Parasoft SOAtest's service is generally satisfactory and responsive, but some report delays and communication issues in certain regions.
Organizations can't wait for this lengthy process, especially when they are under pressure with their timelines.
Support cases are easily created and attended to promptly, depending on urgency.
The technical support is rated eight out of ten.
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Badari Mallireddy - PeerSpot reviewer
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Pierre CAHAY - PeerSpot reviewer
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
OpenText UFT One is scalable, integrating with Jenkins, but success depends on licensing, automation quality, and deployment strategy.
Sentiment score
7.2
Parasoft SOAtest is scalable, well-integrated with CI/CD pipelines, and suits teams of various sizes, scoring 7-8 in ratings.
The tool can be installed on all computers used by developers or test automation engineers.
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Stability Issues

Sentiment score
6.6
OpenText UFT One generally exhibits stability, though some users report performance issues, often resolved through updates. Satisfaction remains high.
Sentiment score
7.5
Parasoft SOAtest is rated 8/10 for stability, praised for being reliable, stable, and free from bugs or crashes.
 

Room For Improvement

OpenText UFT One requires improvements in stability, compatibility, speed, memory use, object recognition, and integration with open-source tools.
Users want Parasoft SOAtest to be more user-friendly with improved reporting, guidance, optimization, UI testing, and code coverage.
Incorporating behavior-driven development tests would enhance the capabilities of UFT One.
If it could move closer to a no-code or low-code solution, it might dominate the market again.
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Setup Cost

OpenText UFT One licensing is costly, leading organizations to mix different license types and evaluate ROI against open-source alternatives.
<p>Parasoft SOAtest pricing is customizable starting from $5,000 annually, including support, training, and updates, based on enterprise needs.</p>
The pricing or licensing policy of OpenText is a bit expensive, however, it's one of the best solutions in the market.
It's cheaper than Tricentis Tosca but more expensive than some others.
There are many open-source tools with no cost, and there are no-code tools that are less expensive than UFT.
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Pierre CAHAY - PeerSpot reviewer
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Badari Mallireddy - PeerSpot reviewer
 

Valuable Features

OpenText UFT One provides versatile automation with cross-platform compatibility, easy use, robust testing, and integration with key technologies.
Parasoft SOAtest offers comprehensive testing, efficient automation, versatile data handling, scalability, and user-friendly features, including Service Virtualization.
UFT supports Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, and other non-web applications, making automation feasible.
The object repository is one of the best in the market, allowing creation of a repository useful for all tests.
The OpenText solution is the best of breed and the best solution on the market for large customers.
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Badari Mallireddy - PeerSpot reviewer
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Pierre CAHAY - PeerSpot reviewer
 

Categories and Ranking

OpenText UFT One
Ranking in Functional Testing Tools
2nd
Ranking in API Testing Tools
4th
Ranking in Test Automation Tools
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
95
Ranking in other categories
Mobile App Testing Tools (2nd), Regression Testing Tools (2nd)
Parasoft SOAtest
Ranking in Functional Testing Tools
21st
Ranking in API Testing Tools
9th
Ranking in Test Automation Tools
23rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
30
Ranking in other categories
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (31st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Functional Testing Tools category, the mindshare of OpenText UFT One is 9.9%, up from 9.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Parasoft SOAtest is 0.8%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Don Ingerson - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Ajit Kumar Rout - PeerSpot reviewer
Good API testing and RIT feature; clarity could be improved
In general, this is a hassle free, user friendly tool and it doesn't require much knowledge if you're using the manual testing. Automated testing is also good but requires some knowledge in that field. It has some great features. It's a good tool compared to some of the other paid tools; input and output can be stored before extension and there is also a verification assessment that can be implemented by using some different methodologies inside the tool. If the licensing cost is suitable then I recommend this solution. If you have automation people with in-depth knowledge in coding that will be helpful. I rate this solution a seven out of 10.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Energy/Utilities Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
25%
Manufacturing Company
18%
Computer Software Company
12%
Government
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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?
The user interface could be improved.
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What do you like most about Parasoft SOAtest?
Since the solution has both command line and automation options, it generates good reports.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Parasoft SOAtest?
The price is average. It isn't overly expensive.
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What needs improvement with Parasoft SOAtest?
Tuning the tool takes time because it gives quite a long list of warnings. Going through that is a challenge. It only happens in the initial stage when we are setting up the tool, but it can be imp...
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Also Known As

Micro Focus UFT One, UFT (QTP), Micro Focus UFT (QTP), QTP, Quick Test Pro, QuickTest Professional, HPE UFT (QTP)
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Overview

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

Parasoft SOAtest delivers fully integrated API and web service testing capabilities that automate end-to-end functional API testing. Streamline automated testing with advanced codeless test creation for applications with multiple interfaces (REST & SOAP APIs, microservices, databases, and more).

SOAtest reduces the risk of security breaches and performance outages by transforming functional testing artifacts into security and load equivalents. Such reuse, along with continuous monitoring of APIs for change, allows faster and more efficient testing.

 

Sample Customers

Sage, JetBlue, Haufe.Group, Independent Health, Molina Healthcare, Cox Automotive, andTMNA Services
Charter Communications, Sabre, Caesars Entertainment, Charles Schwab, ING, Intel, Northbridge Financial, Capital Services, WoodmenLife
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