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 best feature of UFT by far is its compatibility with a large variety of products, tools and technologies. It is currently a challenge to find a single tool on the market besides UFT that will successfully automate tests for so many projects and environments."
"The shared repositories can be used throughout all testing which makes jobs easier."
"The solution has good out-of-the-box protocols."
"Record and Replay to ease onboarding of new users."
"It's simple to set up."
"The scalability of Micro Focus UFT One is good."
"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."
"The high-level security, high standard and compatible SAP are great."
"On the market, compared to everyone else, they're the top solution. They're the best solution out there that I could see."
"You can just write one XM channel core and it'll be used for both iOS and Android."
"It has significantly reduced the skill barrier for development and testers."
"Xamarin Platform enables you to use a single code language. This is beneficial for Android, iOS, and Windows platforms, so they can be developed over application or built over application."
"It significantly reduces development and test costs, and ensures that there is synergy between the platforms on product features and user experience."
"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."
"It is a true native solution, and we can use the cross-platform framework."
"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."
"We'd like it to have less scripting."
"[Tech support is] not a 10 because what happens with some of our issues is that we might not get a patch quickly and we have to hold on to an application until we get a proper solution."
"The price is very high. They should work to lower the costs for their clients."
"It could work with more browsers other than Internet Explorer, and could better handle new things like Ext JS."
"One area for improvement is its occasional slowness."
"Perhaps more coverage as far as different languages go. I'm talking more about object identification."
"I would like to have detailed description provided to test the cloud-based applications."
"I would like Micro Focus to provide more information on their portal about their newer products. The information about UFT One was outdated. The image recognition features could also be better."
"The file size is a bit big, so you have to make certain layers."
"The worst build issue concerns are the caching process MSBuild uses to reduce the build time."
"It would be better if they offered more certifications. They offer a number of certifications for Azure but none for Xamarin. This is something that could be provided for developers to show off their competency. Technical support could be better."
"We need to think about partnering with IBM because there is a need for a big data partner; someone who has machine learning and can help us connect the app to big data."
"The solution does not include Hot Reload which is painful because it causes us to wait quite some time for huge builds."
"We'd like to have some chat support functionality."
"The problem that I faced was that the communication, the roles, and the responsibilities, weren't defined between Microsoft and Xamarin."
"It needs offline sync capabilities to store data on devices persistently."
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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