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 most valuable feature for me is that it works on multiple platforms and technologies."
"The interface is fine and there is nothing else to add in terms of enhancement."
"The high-level security, high standard and compatible SAP are great."
"The initial setup is relatively easy."
"This product is easy to use, understand, and maintain."
"It's easy to use for beginners and non-technical people."
"The most valuable feature is that it is fast during test execution, unlike LoadRunner."
"The inside object repository is nice. We can use that and learn it through the ALM connection. That's a good feature. The reporting and smart identification features are also excellent."
"We were able to optimize the service organization for one of our clients."
"Cross-platform development saves time and provides consistencies."
"The most valuable features are: One language for all platforms: C#; XAML for UI in Xamarin.Forms; provides 100 percent coverage of APIs on each platform."
"For me, developing apps for iOS and Android is a dream came true, without migrating to Objective-C or Java. Xamarin enables me to do so."
"Being able to use the .NET framework and platform have me creating applications better than anyone who develops on Windows."
"Test Cloud, Calabash, SpecFlow, and Xamarin.UITest are the features which can’t be ignored because just writing code doesn’t mean your app will run flawlessly. You need to test your app on each possible device and configuration, which you can do easily."
"Xamarin is well-integrated with Visual Studio so it will feel very familiar to you once you start."
"It significantly reduces development and test costs, and ensures that there is synergy between the platforms on product features and user experience."
"Needs to improve the integration with the CI/CD pipeline (VSTS and report generation)."
"It doesn't support Telerik UI controls and we are currently looking for a patch for this."
"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."
"I would like to have detailed description provided to test the cloud-based applications."
"Technical support could be improved."
"The UA objects are sometimes hard to recognize, so the coverage should be increased. Open-source alternatives have a broad scope. Also, it's sometimes difficult to make connections between two of the components in the UFT mobile center. It should be easier to set up the wireless solution because we have to set both. We directly integrate Selenium and APM, so we should try to cover all the features they have in APM and Selenium with the UFT mobile."
"The price is very high. They should work to lower the costs for their clients."
"Perhaps more coverage as far as different languages go. I'm talking more about object identification."
"Xamarin Platform is missing the code renderer."
"I feel that the Android AppCompat library creates a lot of issues. A lot of development time is often wasted solving these issues."
"The architecture in the Xamarin Platform has to improve, there are some features missing."
"The solution does not include Hot Reload which is painful because it causes us to wait quite some time for huge builds."
"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 application platform could be improved."
"It needs offline sync capabilities to store data on devices persistently."
"The worst build issue concerns are the caching process MSBuild uses to reduce the build time."
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, OutSystems, Apple Xcode and Mendix.
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