Interesting Hidden Facts Between Selenium and QTP

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Interesting Hidden Facts Between Selenium /QTP

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Both QTP and Selenium were developed with the
objective to provide functional and regression
test automation for various software and web
applications.Selenium and QTP are platforms or
frameworks composed of sophisticated tools and
apparatus to help in automation of the web
browsers. Both of them have their own advantages
and disadvantages. It is the experience and
discretion of the tester or engineer that will
help him choose the best for the optimization of
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Given below is the detailed contrast and analysis
of QTP and Selenium based on a number of
parameters 1) OriginQTP stands for Quick
Test Professional. It was initially developed by
Mercury Interactive (MI). In 2006, MI was
subsequently acquired by Hewlett Packard (HP).
Nowadays, it is popularly known as HPE Unified
Functional Testing (UFT) software. Selenium was
developed by an engineer and programmer of
Thought Works, named Jason Huggins in Chicago in
2004. The invention of Selenium was made
accidently as a Java Script Test Runner. It was
then updated in the following years to cater to
the ever increasing demands of the Information
Technology and Industry.
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2) Cost of LicensingThe major difference
between Selenium and Quick Test Professional or
Unified Functional Testing framework is the
starting and working costs. Selenium being open
source platform is completely free to use. This
means that theres no licensing or renewal cost
associated with the Selenium tool. On the
contrary, QTP is not open source testing tool. It
is a commercial tool and is expensive. User needs
to buy an initial license and renew it
periodically if QTP platform is chosen for test
automation. So, the cost of HPE UFT is huge as
compared to Selenium framework that is free of
cost.
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3) Types of automation testing supportedIf you
are just thinking about the huge cost of QTP,
please consider the support that the platform
provides for various types of test automation. HP
QTP or UFT can be used to test both client and
server side applications like built in TCL/TK and
PowerBuilder. It supports testing of both desktop
and web based applications. On the other hand, if
you are planning to go for Selenium, remember
that you will be able to automate only the web
based applications. Selenium is portable but one
needs to spend in lakhs for obtaining valid QTP
license.
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4) Scalability and Programming SupportQuick
Test Professional tool supports only Visual Basic
(VB) scripts and Java scripts. But Selenium has
good scalability and scripts can be developed in
any of the programming languages like Java, C,
Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, .Net and Groovy
etc.Therefore, more object oriented language
support is available for open source Selenium
test tool as compared to only two OOL for QTP.
In other words, one can say that the QTP tool
is less scalable. Object Oriented Approach of
automation testing becomes more challenging in
QTP owing to its less mature programming language
i.e. Visual Basics. Unlike QTP framework,
Selenium is based on much more mature language
like Java.
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5) Platform or Operating System SupportSelenium
has support for almost all the platforms like
Windows PC, MAC, UNIX and LINUX. As far as Quick
Test Professional is concerned it has support for
only Windows operating system or platform.
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