We performed a comparison between OpenText UFT One and Visual Studio Test Professional based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Functional Testing Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Record and Replay to ease onboarding of new users."
"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."
"Object Repository Technology, which is a good mean to identify graphical components of the applications under test."
"I find UFT One to be very good for thick clients, which are non-browser applications."
"Has improved our organization by allowing us to obtain fast, detailed information about the behavior of our products and to supply this to the customer, enabling us to work together without the need for special programming knowledge."
"The production and the efficiency of making your test cases can be very high."
"It's not only web-based but also for backend applications; you can also do the integration of the applications."
"The solution has good out-of-the-box protocols."
"Visual Studio is an exemplary integrated development environment that stands out due to its exceptional features. It allows for the seamless selection of the appropriate programming language for the specific development tasks at hand. This facilitates a swift and effortless transition between languages, providing a highly efficient development experience."
"Visual Studio is highly powerful. It's probably the best software development tool on the market."
"The initial setup is easy. It's easy to configure."
"The user interface is very friendly."
"It is a good and user-friendly tool."
"The stability has always been very good."
"The documentation is easy, and it helps us solve our problems."
"The tool has highly detailed debugging features."
"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."
"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."
"The scripting language could be improved. They're currently using Visual Basic, but I think that people need something more advanced, like Python or Java."
"I would like to have detailed description provided to test the cloud-based applications."
"One area for improvement is its occasional slowness."
"They should include an automated feature to load backlog tests."
"I would want to see a significant improvement in the tool's features. The most significant enhancements are support for panel execution and integration with DevSecOps."
"The artificial intelligence functionality is applicable only on the web, and it should be expanded to cover non-web applications as well."
"The tool crashes and has high memory consumption."
"Visual Studio Test Professional is a little pricey."
"It needs more integration with other tools for monitoring. Microsoft also needs to make it more modern to make it work with microservices and the cloud. It is a bit outdated currently."
"Visual Studio Test Professional should include more automation."
"Its UI could be better."
"The integration with Git needs improving because it is a bit disjointed and unpredictable."
"Visual Studio Test Professional could improve by having better integration with external databases."
"Visual Studio Test Professional needs to improve its stability."
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OpenText UFT One is ranked 2nd in Functional Testing Tools with 89 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 7th in Functional Testing Tools with 46 reviews. OpenText UFT One is rated 8.0, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6. 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 Visual Studio Test Professional writes "Customization is a key feature as is the ability to integrate with third-party services ". OpenText UFT One is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, OpenText UFT Developer, Katalon Studio, SmartBear TestComplete and UiPath Test Suite, whereas Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with TFS, Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, SmartBear TestComplete and Tricentis qTest. See our OpenText UFT One vs. Visual Studio Test Professional report.
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