We performed a comparison between OpenText UFT One and SmartBear TestLeft based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tricentis, OpenText, Perforce and others in Functional Testing Tools."The ease of record and playback as well as descriptive programming are the most valuable features of UFT (QTP)."
"The most valuable feature is that it is fast during test execution, unlike LoadRunner."
"It's simple to set up."
"UFT is very strongly built. It's widely used, so there's a lot of support."
"For traditional automation, approximately half of our tests end up automated. Therefore, we are saving half the testing time by pushing it off to automation. That gives it an intrinsic benefit of more time for manual testers and business testers to work on possibly more important and interesting things. For some of our applications, they don't just have to do happy path testing anymore, they can go more in-depth and breadth into the process."
"It is easy to automate and new personnel can start learning automation using UFT One. You don't have to learn any scripting."
"This product is easy to use, understand, and maintain."
"I like the fact that you can record and play the record of your step scripts, and UFT One creates the steps for you in the code base. After that, you can alter the code, and it's more of a natural language code."
"The most valuable features are test executor and development."
"We used to run it as a test suite. Micro Focus provides that in terms of a test management tool as ALM, but when we think of integrating with a distributed version control system, like Jenkins, there isn't much integration available. That means we need to make use of external solutions to make it work."
"The product doesn't provide free training for the basic features."
"Sometimes it appears that UFT takes a while to open and sometimes will run slower than expected. Also, UFT uses a lot of memory. On this note, if you are running UFT on a virtual server I would add more RAM memory than the minimum requirements especially when using multiple add-ins. HP is pretty good about coming out with new patches to fix known issues and it pays for the user to check for new patches and updates on a regular basis."
"The solution does not have proper scripting."
"I am not sure if they have a vision of how they want to position the leads in the market, because if you look at Tosca, Tosca is one of the automation tools that have a strategy, and it recently updated its strategy with SAP. They are positioning them as a type of continuous testing automation tool. And if you notice Worksoft, particularly the one tool for your enterprise application, your Worksoft is positioning. I am not sure if Micro Focus UFT has a solid strategy in place. They must differentiate themselves so that people recognize Micro Focus UFT for that reason."
"The AI feature needs improvement. For banking applications, we input formatted text from documents, but the AI feature is recognizing three fields as one field, e.g., for a phone number, it puts all 10 digits in the international code or country code. Then, the script fails."
"The artificial intelligence functionality is applicable only on the web, and it should be expanded to cover non-web applications as well."
"Perhaps more coverage as far as different languages go. I'm talking more about object identification."
"TestLeft captures a lot of space in terms of memory, which is one issue that can be improved."
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OpenText UFT One is ranked 2nd in Functional Testing Tools with 89 reviews while SmartBear TestLeft is ranked 32nd in Functional Testing Tools. OpenText UFT One is rated 8.0, while SmartBear TestLeft is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of OpenText UFT One writes "With regularly occurring releases, a QA team member can schedule tests, let the tests run unattended, and then examine the results". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SmartBear TestLeft writes "Simple to set up and the test execute feature is helpful, but the cost could be reduced". OpenText UFT One is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, OpenText UFT Developer, Katalon Studio, SmartBear TestComplete and UiPath Test Suite, whereas SmartBear TestLeft is most compared with SmartBear TestComplete and Tricentis Tosca.
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