- There are both open-source and commercial competitors in the mobile testing space, with open-source options mainly used by small-to-medium businesses and commercial options providing more robust, enterprise-ready features. - HP UFT Mobile is ranked #1 in pricing model and market presence by Forrester and is mostly deployed in large enterprises. It provides advanced administration capabilities, runs on certified off-the-shelf hardware, supports unlimited devices per cloud, and has clouds in multiple global locations. - Factors that determine how compatible a solution is for enterprises include its performance and load testing capabilities, integration with ALM tools, reporting features, and support for automation testing and frameworks like Appium and Selenium. HP UFT

1. Competitive Landscape
• There are Open-source and Commercial
competitors:
• Open-source : Mainly in SMB, difficult, no
support, not enterprise ready (no cloud)
• Commercial: Perfecto, Mobile Labs, HP, A
mazon, Google
SMB ENTERPRISE
POOR FUNCTIONALITY
RICH FUNCTIONALITY
Google
Amazon
Perfecto
Mobile
HP Mobile
Mobile
Labs
SOASTA
Experitest

2. Cloud can be used by the different
DevOps teams ?
3rd party dependenciesScalabilitySecurity
Actual Deployment in
Enterprises iOS app
developers
Android app
developers
xx• No 3rd party dependencies
• Limited admin capabilities
• limited to 40 devices per cloud
• Cloud is limited to one location
• Requires both Mac and Windows machines
• No support for WindowsPhone
• Cannot be used by the open source automation teams
• Data transfer on an
Internal network
• Devices on premise
• Give for free
• Unable to justify cost for value
• No known deployment
HP-
Mobile
Centre
√√• No 3rd party dependencies
• Advanced admin capabilities
• SW only solution
• Runs on certified off-the-shelf HW
• Unlimited devices per cloud
• Cloud can be located in different locations in the world
• Ranked no. 1 in Pricing Model criteria by Forrester.
(wave report 2016)
• Data transfer on an
Internal network
• Devices on premise
• Ranked no. 1 in Market Presence
criteria by Forrester. (wave report 2016)
• Mostly deployed in large enterprises
SeeTest
Cloud
x
x
• Requires specific propriety HW
• Technical issues require Perfecto’s
support
• Limited admin capabilities
Not scalable:
• 1-2 devices per machine
• Dedicated HW
• Data transfer on an
Internal network
• Devices on premise
• In discontinue phase
• Used as a means to get enterprise to a
public cloud
Perfecto
Mobile-
Private
x
x
• Perfecto handles devices
procurement
• Perfecto handles cloud maintenance
• Technical issues can by solved by
Perfecto only
• Admin capabilities restricted to
Perfecto’s admin
• High scalability
• Costly
• Customers need to
open their VPN to
Perfecto’s network
• Devices are in
Perfecto’s premises
• High presence in SMB’s
Perfecto
Mobile
Public
Cloud
√√• Requires specific propriety HW
• Limited admin capabilities
• limited to 40 devices per cloud
• Cloud is limited to one location
• Dedicated HW required
• No support for WindowsPhone and Blackberry
• Data transfer on an
Internal network
• Devices on premise
• Very few deployments, only for manual
testing
Mobile
Labs
On Premise Cloud Set up-
How Compatible is the solution for Enterprise ?

3. Performance TestingManual TestingAutomation Testing
LoadMonitoringNV
QC
integratio
n
Jira
integrati
on
Reporting
including
screenshots
Mock
device
periph
erals
Builtin
UI
testing
On-the-fly-
Instrument
ation
Parallel
execution
Integration to
all major ALM-
Testing
frameworks
and CI
Objects Recognition
Image/O
CR
WebNative
√x√√x√xxxx
x
Integrates to
only new
versions of
UFT
√
• No selenium
support
√
HP
√√√√√
√
Including
videos
√√√√√√
• Support all
major mobile
browsers and
hybrid
applications
• Support
selenium tests
execution
√SeeTest
Synthetic
Load
only
√
√xxLimited
reportingx
x√√√√
• Support only
standard
elements
• Relying on
open source
frameworks
√
Relying
on
open
source
framew
orks
Perfecto
Mobile-
public
x√XxXxxx
x
x
x
Integrates
only to UFT
and QTP
x
• Support only
propriety
browser
• No selenium
support
√Mobile
Labs
How Advanced are the Testing Capabilities ?