The document compares Selenium and QTP/UFT as automation tools for testing software applications. It highlights the advantages and disadvantages of each, noting that Selenium is open source, supports multiple programming languages, and is cross-platform while QTP/UFT is Windows only, licensed, and more expensive. Key differences include Selenium's flexibility in testing web applications on various browsers compared to QTP's limited capabilities.

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Agenda
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What is
QTP/UFT?
QTP vs
Selenium
Benefits over
each other
What is
Selenium?

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QTP
Selenium
QTPSelenium

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QTP
QTP
PythonSelenium
Written by Mercury
Interactive
Acquired by
Hewlett Packard
Sold to Micro Focus which
is now called Unified
Functional Testing (UFT)
Designed to test software applications
and environment

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It is a control structure that allows us to repeat certain operations by incrementing and
evaluating a loop counter
Selenium
Statement
Initialization
Condition
Increment
/Decrement
False
True
START
END
QTP
Selenium
Selenium
Selenium is an automation tool used to test web applications.
Tests web applications Supports different languages Run across
different platforms

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Drawbacks of QTP/ Benefits of Selenium
Runs only on windows environment
Works only on QTP developed IDE
Allows limited addons
Supports only VB script
Licensed

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Advantages of QTP/drawbacks of selenium
Rate of automation is fast
Handles control within the browser
Test reports are easily generated
Has its own inbuilt repository
Selenium can test only web applications

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QTP
Selenium
License
Flexibility
Programming
Repository
Environment
IDE basis

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QTP
Selenium
License
QTPSelenium

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QTP
Python
Selenium
Selenium is an open source tool where as QTP/UFT is a paid version and the cost is too high
License

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QTP
Python
Selenium
License
Licensed toolOpen source tool

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QTP
Selenium
Flexibility
QTPSelenium

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QTP
Python
Selenium
Cannot be run across different browsers but
only windows and it can test web, mobile and
desktop applications
Run across different browsers and can test
only web applications
Flexibility
Java

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QTP
Selenium
Programming
QTPSelenium

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QTP
Python
Selenium
Programming
Supports only VBScriptSupports different languages like
Java, Python, C# etc

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Selenium
IDE Basis
QTPSelenium

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QTP
Python
Selenium
IDE Basis
It supports different IDEs like
Eclipse, NetBeans, Visual Studio
It works only on QTP/UFT
developed IDE

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Selenium
Repository
QTPSelenium

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QTP
Selenium
Repository
In-built object repository
No in-built repository but it uses
the element by the UI

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QTP
Selenium
Environment
QTPSelenium

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QTP
Python
Selenium
Environment
Supports different environments
like SAP, Oracle and .net
Supports additional plugins to
include all the features