We performed a comparison between Galen Framework, OpenText UFT One, and Selenium HQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tricentis, OpenText, Perforce and others in Functional Testing Tools."What I like most about Galen Framework are its advantages, particularly its spec language and the spec file feature."
"Record and Replay to ease onboarding of new users."
"With certainty, the best feature of UFT is its compatibility with so many products, tools and technologies. It is a challenge currently to find a single tool on the market besides UFT that will successfully work for so many projects and environments. For example, UFT supports GUI testing of Oracle, PeopleSoft, PowerBuilder, SAP (v7.20), Siebel, Stingray, Terminal Emulator, Putty, and Windows Objects (particularly Dialog Boxes). Furthermore, UFT has the built-in functionality to import Excel input files."
"For traditional automation, approximately half of our tests end up automated. Therefore, we are saving half the testing time by pushing it off to automation. That gives it an intrinsic benefit of more time for manual testers and business testers to work on possibly more important and interesting things. For some of our applications, they don't just have to do happy path testing anymore, they can go more in-depth and breadth into the process."
"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."
"It's not only web-based but also for backend applications; you can also do the integration of the applications."
"Compared to other products, UFT One is better, faster, and more accurate."
"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."
"It's simple to set up."
"The testing solution produces the best web applications."
"The stability of the solution has been good, it is reliable we have not had any bugs."
"Selenium's open-source nature is a key advantage. Its extensive support for diverse web technologies."
"The main characteristic that is useful is that the tool is completely free."
"We found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"Selenuim helps us during testing. We are able to reduce the number and frequency of manual efforts by using scripts."
"All the features in Selenium to automate the UI."
"Due to its popularity, you can find pretty much any answer in open discussions from the community."
"There don't seem to be functions available for automatically generating Galen values based on the specifications in the spec file, and this could be a potential improvement for Galen Framework."
"One thing that confused me, and now just mildly irritates me, is that we migrated from QuickTest Pro to HP UFT, Unified Functional Test. After we did the migration, it turned out that we didn't really have Unified Functional Test at all."
"We used to run it as a test suite. Micro Focus provides that in terms of a test management tool as ALM, but when we think of integrating with a distributed version control system, like Jenkins, there isn't much integration available. That means we need to make use of external solutions to make it work."
"The price is very high. They should work to lower the costs for their clients."
"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."
"Sometimes UFT can take a while to open and sometimes will run slower than expected."
"You have to deal with issues such as the firewall and how can the tool talk with the application, i.e., if the application is on a company network and so on. That, of course, is important to figure out."
"One of the drawbacks is that mobile performance testing is in need of improvement."
"I'd like to see UFT integrated more with some of the open source tools like Selenium, where web is involved."
"There should be standardized frameworks to build automation."
"The reporting part can be better."
"It does require a programming skill set. I would like the product not to require a heavy programming skill set and be more user-friendly for someone without a programming background."
"When we upgrade the version, some features are missing. I want the product to include some AI capabilities."
"I would like to see a library of bomb files with an automated process and integration with Jenkins and Slack."
"There is no good tool to find the Xpath. They should provide a good tool to find Xpath for dynamic elements and integrate API (REST/ SOAP) testing support."
"It would be better if it accommodated non-techy end-users. I think it's still a product for developers. That's why it's not common for end-users, and especially for RPA activities or tasks. It's hard to automate tasks for end-users. If it will be easier, more user-friendly, and so on, perhaps it can be more interesting for this kind of user."
"Selenium uses a layer-based approach that is somewhat slower than Eggplant when it comes to executing code."
