OpenText UFT One vs Ranorex Studio comparison

OpenText and Ranorex are both solutions in the Functional Testing Tools category. OpenText is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.1, while Ranorex is ranked #14 with an average rating of 7.5. OpenText holds a 10.1% mindshare in FT, compared to Ranorex’s 3.6% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of OpenText users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Ranorex users who would recommend it.

OpenText UFT One

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

OpenText UFT One and Ranorex Studio are both strong contenders in the automation testing market. While OpenText UFT One stands out for its comprehensive technology support, Ranorex Studio is favored for ease of use, particularly for desktop application testing.

Features: OpenText UFT One offers broad compatibility with various tools and technologies, supporting GUI testing, API testing, and enabling integration across multiple environments. It also includes advanced integration capabilities and strong object recognition features. Ranorex Studio is known for its user-friendly interface and supports testing across desktop, web, and mobile platforms. It provides robust cross-browser testing capabilities and a versatile object recognition system.

Room for Improvement: Users of UFT One have suggested the need for faster performance and enhanced browser compatibility. There's also room for refining its object recognition capabilities on newer platforms. Ranorex Studio users have mentioned the need for improvements in object recognition and additional operating system support such as macOS and Linux.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both OpenText UFT One and Ranorex Studio primarily offer on-premises deployment but are flexible with cloud options. UFT One users report varied experiences with technical support, whereas Ranorex Studio users typically find its support services satisfactory.

Pricing and ROI: OpenText UFT One is often perceived as expensive, but its wide range of applicability often justifies the cost by enhancing productivity and minimizing manual testing times. Ranorex Studio, while also not inexpensive, provides considerable value with a flexible licensing model and an effective ROI through its powerful automation features.

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Categories and Ranking

OpenText UFT One

Ranking in Functional Testing Tools

2nd

Ranking in Mobile App 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

API Testing Tools (6th)

Ranorex Studio

Ranking in Functional Testing Tools

14th

Ranking in Mobile App Testing Tools

4th

Ranking in Regression Testing Tools

7th

Ranking in Test Automation Tools

11th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Functional Testing Tools category, the mindshare of OpenText UFT One is 10.1%, up from 9.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Ranorex Studio is 3.6%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Q&A Highlights

it_user500790

Works

Aug 24, 2016

SAP GUI Testing Tool

Thanks all, it's encouraging to see so much support and responses

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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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Aws V

IT Team Leader -Automation Manager at Citco

Good data security, allowing local installations to prevent data from going to the internet

There were a lot of issues we faced. One notable improvement would be better API integration within the tool itself, as we still rely on external tools like Postman. Additionally, expanding language support beyond C#, Java, and JavaScript to include Python would be beneficial. An AI feature that automatically detects automation object properties and suggests actions would be a great addition. So, in future releases, AI solutions for automated property identification would be helpful.

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Pros

"The initial setup is relatively easy."

"It is easy to automate and new personnel can start learning automation using UFT One. You don't have to learn any scripting."

"The shared repositories can be used throughout all testing which makes jobs easier."

"The object repository is one of the best in the market, allowing creation of a repository useful for all tests."

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

"I find UFT One to be very good for thick clients, which are non-browser applications."

"I like the Help feature in UFT One. For example, if you are navigating a particular window, where there are different options. One wouldn’t know the purpose of every option, but there is no need to search because that window contains a Help button. If you click on that Help button, it directly navigates to the respective help needed. VBScript is very easy to understand and easy to prepare scripts with minimal learning curve."

"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."

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"This is a powerful, reliable and versatile all-around application testing suite."

"The most valuable feature of Ranorex Studio is the capture and replay tool. You don't need to do script testing. When you launch any application from Ranorex Studio it automatically captures these test case steps. The next time you can replay the tool the flow automatically happens again. For example, when you do the logging and all the activity will be captured by the tool, and re-execute the same step by using automatization."

"I like the recording function and Ranorex Spy."

"The most valuable feature of Ranorex Studio is its user-friendly interface."

"Data security was prime for us. Being able to download and run tests on our local machines was a big plus. The flexibility Ranorex offers in terms of customization is outstanding."

"Object identification is good."

"The scalability is very good. It's probably one of the better tools I've seen on the market."

"I'm from a UFT background, so Ranorex Studio has a similar feel in terms of how it handles objects. It just felt familiar even though I'd never seen it before. However, it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of UFT, but it's a pretty good start, and it's cost-effective."

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Cons

"Needs to improve the integration with the CI/CD pipeline (VSTS and report generation)."

"Customer service is a big drawback. From my personal experience, after creating a ticket, it takes three to five days for them to acknowledge it and then send it to somebody."

"Scripting has become more complex from a maintenance standpoint to support additional browsers."

"The product should evolve to be flexible so one can use any programming language such as Java and C#, and not just VB script."

"I'd like to see test case-related reports included in the solution."

"They need to reduce the licensing cost. There's pushback from customers because of the cost."

"Jumping to functions is supported from any Action/BPT Component code, but not from inside a function library where the target function exists in another library file. Workaround: Select search entire project for the function."

"I would like Micro Focus to provide more information on their portal about their newer products. The information about UFT One was outdated. The image recognition features could also be better."

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"Other OS Support, Ranorex Spy performance improvement (Especially for Silverlight controls)."

"For our purposes it requires integration with other products to get out the results in the format we want them. Adding this to the product could improve it."

"If there are many queries on the web page, Ranorex will not render the page correctly. I had about 1,000 queries on the page, and the solution was not able to handle it."

"When Ranorex is upgraded, the compatibility with other projects, in version control, in-house or on-premise, fails on occasion. However, overall, the stability is good."

"Part of the challenge is that Ranorex's support is over in Europe, so we can't get responses on the same day. If we had support in the United States that was a bit more timely, that would be helpful."

"Binding to other sources is very good but the object recognition in .NET desktop applications often doesn't work."

"There were a lot of issues we faced. One notable improvement would be better API integration within the tool itself, as we still rely on external tools like Postman."

"I'd like to know their testing strategies and to know what they can automate and what they can't. It can become pretty frustrating if you're trying to automate something that changes on a monthly or weekly basis."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing of the product is an issue."

"The price is only $3,000. I don't know how many QA analysts you would have in any given company. Probably no more than five or 10. So if it's a large corporation, it can easily afford $15,000 to $25,000. I don't see that being an issue."

"The tool's price is high."

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

"The way the pricing model works is that you pay a whole boatload year one. Then, every year after, it is around half or less. Because instead of paying for the new product, you are just paying for the support and maintenance of it. That is probably one of the biggest things that I hear from most people, even at conferences, "Yeah, I would love to use UFT One, but we don't have a budget for it.""

"The price is reasonable."

"OpenText UFT One is a very expensive solution."

"Its price is reasonable compared to other vendors."

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"Our company has one license per user with each costing two lakh rupees."

"There are several types of licenses and you need to choose depending on your needs and level of usage."

"This solution is a more expensive solution compared to some of the other competitors."

"The licensing fees depend on the number of users."

"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."

"We paid €3,000 (approximately $3,300 USD) for this solution. When you add the runtime licenses it will be €3,500 (approximately $3,900 USD)."

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Answers from the Community

it_user500790

Works

Aug 24, 2016

SAP GUI Testing Tool

Thanks all, it's encouraging to see so much support and responses

2 out of 16 answers

it_user83412

Vice President at Tricentis

Aug 23, 2016

All of these solutions are based on scripts and face the associated limitations. Test data management, parameterization, dynamic TBOMs, BPCA, SolMan integration and script maintenance all pose potential issues. I'd recommend looking at Tricentis Tosca or Worksoft, both of which provide scriptless automation for SAP GUI. Tosca also supports Fiori and NWBC natively as well as over 30 different UI and API technologies. [FULL DISCLOSURE: I work for Tricentis, so obviously biased, but we serve many SAP clients]

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it_user457878

Works at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 23, 2016

UFT will support or Tricentis TOSCA .

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

Computer Software Company

20%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

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?

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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What do you like most about Ranorex Studio?

Data security was prime for us. Being able to download and run tests on our local machines was a big plus. The flexibility Ranorex offers in terms of customization is outstanding.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Ranorex Studio?

I'd rate it around five out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, not too cheap but not overly pricey.

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What needs improvement with Ranorex Studio?

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Comparisons

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Compared 31% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

UiPath Test Cloud vs OpenText UFT One

Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 24% of the time

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Compared 16% of the time

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Compared 15% of the time

Katalon Studio vs Ranorex Studio

Compared 15% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Also Known As

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

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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.

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Ranorex is a leading software development company that offers innovative test automation software. Ranorex makes testing easy, saves time in the testing process and empowers clients to ensure the highest quality of their products. Its flexible tools and quick ROI make it the ideal choice for companies of virtually any size – and this is why thousands of clients in over 60 countries trust in its excellence.

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