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."The scalability of Micro Focus UFT One is good."
"Object Repository Technology, which is a good mean to identify graphical components of the applications under test."
"UFT is very strongly built. It's widely used, so there's a lot of support."
"I find UFT One to be very good for thick clients, which are non-browser applications."
"It's simple to set up."
"With frequent releases, using automation to perform regression testing can save us huge amount of time and resources."
"The initial setup is relatively easy."
"It is very simple to use, and the scripting language is even easier."
"The most valuable features of the Xamarin Platform are that it has cross-platform development, one code base serves a purpose on both, and the grid layout is a lifesaver."
"It allows us to reuse our knowledge of C# and .NET Framework."
"The solution's most valuable asset is its shared code base in C# that is better for large apps."
"Being able to use the .NET framework and platform have me creating applications better than anyone who develops on Windows."
"It is a true native solution, and we can use the cross-platform framework."
"Xamarin Platform's best features are its single codebase, the support from Microsoft, and the free libraries."
"Xamarin is well-integrated with Visual Studio so it will feel very familiar to you once you start."
"Because of the C# programming language, we can train our .NET developers to learn Xamarin and develop mobile apps easily."
"Micro Focus UFT One could improve by having more maintenance. Every time when we run the solution and develop something, the next time when we run it it doesn't recognize the object. I have to redesign the object again and then run the solution. It's really a headache, it's not consistent."
"I would like to have detailed description provided to test the cloud-based applications."
"I'd like to see UFT integrated more with some of the open source tools like Selenium, where web is involved."
"Jumping to functions is supported from any Action/BPT Component code, but not from inside a function library where the target function exists in another library file. Workaround: Select search entire project for the function."
"The product wasn't easy for developers to learn and pick up in the area revolving around scripting for automation, and there was a lot of resistance from developers, causing my company to rely on specialist resources."
"Scripting has become more complex from a maintenance standpoint to support additional browsers."
"I'd like to see test case-related reports included in the solution."
"Object identification has room for improvement, to make it more efficient."
"For beginners, the entire setup can be overwhelming because it involves setting up development environments for iOS, Android, and Windows at the same time if you want to target all three."
"The major I see with Xamarin right now is that there is no visual editor"
"The solution struggles a little bit with binding libraries."
"For those who use only XAML to design the UI, it would be better if there was a better XAML previewer or designer."
"It needs offline sync capabilities to store data on devices persistently."
"The problem that I faced was that the communication, the roles, and the responsibilities, weren't defined between Microsoft and Xamarin."
"Xamarin Platform can improve by making the enterprise documentation better. There's a lot of basic documentation of how to do many of the functions of the solution, but there's not much enterprise-level documentation."
"The architecture in the Xamarin Platform has to improve, there are some features missing."
OpenText UFT One is ranked 2nd in Functional Testing Tools with 89 reviews while Xamarin Platform is ranked 4th 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 Ionic, Appium, Apple Xcode, OutSystems and Mendix.
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