We performed a comparison between OpenText UFT One and Xamarin Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tricentis, OpenText, Perforce and others in Functional Testing Tools."It's simple to set up."
"I like the fact that we can use LeanFT with our UFT licenses as well."
"It is easy to automate and new personnel can start learning automation using UFT One. You don't have to learn any scripting."
"With frequent releases, using automation to perform regression testing can save us huge amount of time and resources."
"I find UFT One to be very good for thick clients, which are non-browser applications."
"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."
"Micro Focus UFT One is a great tool and can be used in a variety of ways."
"UFT is very strongly built. It's widely used, so there's a lot of support."
"Xamarin.Forms reduced the effort and time to build and market our solution, market our features, and get our solution into production."
"The cross platform ability is a great asset."
"It usually saves time for application development. We write once and the code works everywhere."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"Recently, Xamarin has added a lot of features such as Effects, Behaviors, Triggers, etc. This has made the UI user-friendly, lively, and attractive."
"The ability to share a platform-agnostic common core, or business logic, enables a mobile developer to write code for all targeted mobile platforms, independent of the individual developer's specialization in iOS, Android, or Windows. This helps not only during development but also enables easier maintenance of deployed apps, since bug fixes or feature additions can be often made in the platform-agnostic layer."
"Xamarin is well-integrated with Visual Studio so it will feel very familiar to you once you start."
"The platform is easy to learn as many tutorials are available on YouTube."
"Sometimes UFT can take a while to open and sometimes will run slower than expected."
"The overall design needs an entire overhaul. We prefer software designed to ensure the package isn't too loaded."
"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 is expensive."
"It could work with more browsers other than Internet Explorer, and could better handle new things like Ext JS."
"You have to deal with issues such as the firewall and how can the tool talk with the application, i.e., if the application is on a company network and so on. That, of course, is important to figure out."
"Sometimes, the results' file size can be intense. I wish it was a little more compact."
"The product should evolve to be flexible so one can use any programming language such as Java and C#, and not just VB script."
"The recent move to .NET MAUI is a big change that's affecting a lot of the good features."
"All Xamarin library issues need to be taken care of as a top priority."
"The application platform could be improved."
"We have noticed that there have been stability-based performance issues with this product, which need to be improved."
"I feel that the Android AppCompat library creates a lot of issues. A lot of development time is often wasted solving these issues."
"Xamarin's profiling tools are only available for the highest tier of MSDN subscription and compatibility with platform-native profiling tools is rather lacking. This causes friction when working on performance-related issues."
"The Xamarin.Forms could improve."
"The problem that I faced was that the communication, the roles, and the responsibilities, weren't defined between Microsoft and Xamarin."
OpenText UFT One is ranked 2nd in Functional Testing Tools with 89 reviews while Xamarin Platform is ranked 6th in Mobile Development Platforms with 39 reviews. OpenText UFT One is rated 8.0, while Xamarin Platform is rated 8.2. 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 Xamarin Platform writes "It's about to be retired and replaced with an inferior product, but offers excellent cross-platform development capabilities". OpenText UFT One is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, OpenText UFT Developer, Katalon Studio, SmartBear TestComplete and UiPath Test Suite, whereas Xamarin Platform is most compared with Appium, Ionic, OutSystems, Apple Xcode and Mendix.
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