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Selenium Vs QTP

by Adviser on Tue May 18, 2010 4:04 pm

1. Actual end user simulation, Is the test conducted using this tool equivalent to an end user

action?

Selenium performs actions in the background on thebrowser. It modifies the DOM structure of the HTML page in order to perform actions on the

page. To be more precise it executes javascript on UI objects within the webpage to perform

actions like click, type, select etc. This is the reason why you can execute tests with the browserminimized.

QTP claims to perform end user simulation, in other words executing QTP scripts is equivalentto a person performing those steps manually on the application.

2. Support for most UI Components

Selenium Certain events, methods and Object properties are not supported by selenium. But

broadly most UI components are supported.

QTP requires extra add-ons (plug-in, not free) to work with .Net components.

3. UI-Object management & storageQTP comes built-in with object repository. Object

repository management is quite easy in QTP. Selenium has no such built in feature but objectscan be managed using UI-Element user extension. Other custom solutions like properties files

can also be used in selenium. But for all such solutions the map file in selenium has to be hand-

coded i.e unlike QTP the objects won't be recorded/added automatically .

4. Support for Dialog Boxes

QTP supports all kinds of IE dialog boxes. There is partial support for dialog boxes in Selenium.Some actions like retrieving the title of he dialog box can't be performed in selenium.

5. Support for web browsersQTP supports IE & Firefox. Selenium supportsIE, Firefox, Safari and Opera and a few more browsers. But either tools are far far away from

full cross-browser support. Don't expect scripts created using browser to run flawlessly in

another browser.
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6. Object Recognition Parameters, Recognition on the basis of WYSWYG (what you see is

what you get).

Selenium recognizes objects on the basis of the DOM structure of the HTML Page. The UI

objects in selenium have vague descriptions and don't comply with WYSWYG policy.

QTP recognises and names objects based on properties which are more visible and obvious and

are hence the objects have user friendly names.

7. Object Oriented Language support & Scalability (as in Integration with External tools

utilities and libraries).

Selenium Supports JAVA, dot net and many other industry standard programming languages.QTP supports vb script only.

8. Integration with test management tool.

QTP integrates seamlessly with QC and TD. Test management and mapping the manual testingprocess with automation becomes a lot easier with this integration. I have not yet heard of any

test management tool that can integrate seamlessly with Selenium. keep an eye out for Bromidethough.

9. Types of application supported

QTP wins this one hands down. This is one of the main reason why selenium can't even beconsidered in many cases. Imagine real-time applications like trading terminals, risk

management applications built in TCL/TK and PowerBuilder. QTP supports most of these

interfaces.

Selenium on the other hand can work only on applications that open up inside a browser. But

aren't most applications moving to the browser based platform?

10. Support for operating system/platforms

Selenium Supports JAVA and hence can be used in Windows PC or MAC or UNIX. Usingselenium you can test your web application in all the above platforms. QTP supports Windows

only.

11. Ease of creation of ScriptsSelenium IDE Recorder is not as powerful as QTP but is good for a free tool, many actions are

not recorded by the IDE and have to be manually entered.

12. Technical Support

QTP offers technical support by phone and mail, HP also have a web-forum.QTP user community is vast and questions posted on online forums get answered quickly.

Selenium being an open source tool has no official tech support, the user community is small,

less-active and questions on forums seldom get answered. But the community is growing day by

day as the tool gains acceptance.


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13. CostQTP - Very Costly, in some thousand dollars per seat license.

Many people want to switch to selenium because it's free. But cost isn't really a factor when your

client's a investment bank

14. Test Development EnvironmentWhen you are working on selenium you have the option of using wide range of IDEs like

Eclipse, Netbeans, Visual Studio etc depending on your choice of development language. If youare a developer then you must have developed a taste for rich IDEs and switching to a

environment given by a test tool may be hard for you.

QTP tests can only be developed in QTP.

15. Integration with development processTests developed using selenium can be easily part of the development project. Using tools like

cruise control Continuous Integration is easier with Selenium. But don't get too caught up withthis feature, it's really not that important to be integrated with the development process but it'snice to have.

16. Future in terms of usability and acceptance

The future bodes well for selenium because it's free, supports all programming

languages/platforms and is immensely scalable and expandable due to it being free and open

source. Many pundits have predicted that it will completely conquer the web testing market inthe next 5 years. It being free makes a huge difference especially when times are hard like what

we have now.

QTP on the other hand is the current market leader and I think that it will have it's presence for

long due to it's user friendliness and support for interfaces other than web.

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Re: Selenium Vs QTP

by ashish_techie on Thu Sep 29, 2011 6:29 pm

Selenium----------------------------------- QTP1) Open source----------------------------------- 1) Paid tool

2) Works on all OS---------------------------------2) Works on Windows3) Tests only Web applications---------------------3) Tests web and desktop applications

4) Works on almost all browsers--------------------4) Works on Firefox 3.5.x and IE5) Code can be made in any one of ----------------5) Uses vb

languages such as Java, C#, Ruby,

Python, pearl, php etc

6) No object repository----------------------------6) Has got an object repository7) IDE sometimes does not record some------------7) Recording is a little reliable

events

8 ) Core engine is java script and is very------------8 ) Core engine is not java script basedstrong
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