OpenText UFT One vs Visual Studio Test Professional comparison

OpenText UFT One vs. Visual Studio Test Professional

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Categories and Ranking

OpenText UFT One

Ranking in Functional Testing Tools

2nd

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Mobile App Testing Tools (2nd), Regression Testing Tools (2nd), API Testing Tools (4th), Test Automation Tools (2nd)

Visual Studio Test Professi...

Ranking in Functional Testing Tools

5th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

8.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Test Management Tools (4th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Functional Testing Tools category, the mindshare of OpenText UFT One is 9.5%, down from 9.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Visual Studio Test Professional is 0.7%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Functional Testing Tools

Featured Reviews

Don Ingerson

QA Automation Engineer at Global Fortune 500 Company

Sep 29, 2022

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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Vince Corbin

Director at Truly Madly Deeply Ltd

Nov 3, 2023

A collection of services to plan, build and ship applications faster, to any cloud or on-premises

I have engaged in a diverse array of activities, ranging from developing my own website and working on various in-house technology projects. Before this, my professional experience encompassed bond trading, equity trading in the city, and involvement in state agency initiatives. Overall, I have…

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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 inside object repository is nice. We can use that and learn it through the ALM connection. That's a good feature. The reporting and smart identification features are also excellent."

"The most valuable features are its support for multiple technologies, ease of coding, object repository, and ability to design our own framework. The recording playback feature allows those unfamiliar with coding to use the tool."

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

"Micro Focus UFT One is a great tool and can be used in a variety of ways."

"It's simple to set up."

"The product's initial setup phase is easy and straightforward."

"The ease of record and playback as well as descriptive programming are the most valuable features of UFT (QTP)."

"The high-level security, high standard and compatible SAP are great."

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"The most valuable features of Visual Studio Test Professional are the IntelliSense and the ease of adding the NuGet packages."

"The tool has highly detailed debugging features."

"Customization is the most powerful feature of this product."

"You can easily write code, test, and deploy within the same environment. It is a mature tool. It regularly receives new updates and versions. In my opinion, it's one of the best products by Microsoft for developers."

"What I like most about Visual Studio Test Professional is the way people publish templates and publish integration."

"The user interface is very friendly."

"The tool is flexible and easy to manage. We use it since it is scalable and easy to use. It integrates with solutions."

"Visual Studio is the easiest to use."

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Cons

"Object identification has room for improvement, to make it more efficient."

"They should include an automated feature to load backlog tests."

"The product doesn't provide free training for the basic features."

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

"I would like to have detailed description provided to test the cloud-based applications."

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

"We'd like it to have less scripting."

"The UA objects are sometimes hard to recognize, so the coverage should be increased. Open-source alternatives have a broad scope. Also, it's sometimes difficult to make connections between two of the components in the UFT mobile center. It should be easier to set up the wireless solution because we have to set both. We directly integrate Selenium and APM, so we should try to cover all the features they have in APM and Selenium with the UFT mobile."

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"I would like to see more integration in the solution."

"Visual Studio Test Professional needs to improve its stability."

"The data flow can be improved."

"The vendor must release a lightweight version of the solution."

"The documentation is limited."

"There are too many features with the product and I would like there to be less."

"It needs more integration with other tools for monitoring. Microsoft also needs to make it more modern to make it work with microservices and the cloud. It is a bit outdated currently."

"One of the problems with this solution is you need to be highly technically skilled to operate it, it is not for everyone."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's an expensive solution."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"The licensing cost is high. There are no additional costs to the standard license."

"The price is one aspect that could be improved."

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"The pricing is expensive."

"The product is very expensive."

"Visual Studio Test Professional is a very expensive solution."

"Users have to pay a licensing fee for Visual Studio Test Professional."

"I positioned it at a mid-range level. It isn't an inexpensive solution, but considering its capabilities, it represents excellent value for the functionalities it offers."

"We pay for the solution annually and the price could be reduced."

"We use the solution’s community version, and the solution’s pricing could be cheaper."

"We have licensing for Visual Studio Community edition."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Energy/Utilities Company

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

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...

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.

What needs improvement with Micro Focus UFT One?

The solution should have additional features, but not much. It already has some sort of artificial intelligence that must be developed. It needs to be in trend. The solution needs better marketing,...

What do you like most about Visual Studio Test Professional?

The most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use and availability.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Visual Studio Test Professional?

Users have to pay a licensing fee for Visual Studio Test Professional.

What needs improvement with Visual Studio Test Professional?

The solution’s stability could be improved.

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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

Visual Studio Professional Edition provides an IDE for all supported development languages. As of Visual Studio 2010, the Standard edition was dropped. MSDN support is available as MSDN Essentials or the full MSDN library depending on licensing. It supports XML and XSLT editing, and can create deployment packages that only use ClickOnce and MSI. It includes tools like Server Explorer and integration with Microsoft SQL Server also. Windows Mobile development support was included in Visual Studio 2005 Standard, however, with Visual Studio 2008, it is only available in Professional and higher editions. Windows Phone 7 development support was added to all editions in Visual Studio 2010. Development for Windows Mobile is no longer supported in Visual Studio 2010; it is superseded by Windows Phone 7.

Sample Customers

Sage, JetBlue, Haufe.Group, Independent Health, Molina Healthcare, Cox Automotive, andTMNA Services

Transport for Greater Manchester, Ordina, Bluegarden A/S, CLEAResult, Jet.com, OSIsoft, Australian Taxation Office, BookedOut, Tracasa

OpenText UFT One vs. Visual Studio Test Professional