#selenium ui testing

QTP

QTP is a functional testing tool having the feature for storing screenshot of every page navigated at the time of execution. Therefore, it can be used as an evidence for completion of testing, and also you can refer the screenshots of earlier executions if there is any requirement to refer them. Test report can be written automatically to a customized report page that will confirm accuracy of the report and also it can enhance the report’s look and feel. 

Advantages of Using QTP

- User friendliness and a little effort for script creation.

- Advanced solution for regression test and functional test automation.

- Meets the requirements of both non-technical and technical users.

- Easy configuration and many inbuilt functionalities by default.

- Automation scripts are performed within specific interval of time by means of task scheduler or crone job.

- Easily integrated with test administration tools such as QC.

- Outstanding object identification process or mechanism.

Disadvantages of QTP

In current economic crisis, software companies are planning for efficient productivity as well as cost reduction. QTP is losing its market owing to the following limitations:

- Runs in Windows environments only.

- Unable to test with all types and versions of browser.

- Restricted to smaller testing teams or organizations.

- High licensing as well as add-inns costs.

- Slow in execution as compared with open source tools.

Selenium

Selenium Testing has four variants that can be used in combination or in isolation to create a full automation suite for your web applications.

1. Recording or Creating as well as enhancing scripts - Selenium IDE 

2. Cross browser testing - Selenium Web Driver (API) 

3. Executing scripts - Selenium Remote Control (RC)

4. Cross platform testing - Selenium Grid 

Advantages of Using Selenium:-

- Powerful and simple document object model (DOM) level testing can be used for constant combination with agile projects.

- Has great flexibility and extensibility, with its tight integration with the browser unmatched by proprietary tools that are available. 

- Supports different browsers, for instance, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera or Safari on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.

- Wires.NET, JAVA, Perl, Ruby, PHP and other Object Oriented Programming languages.

- Offers the option of using various IDEs such as Netbeans, Eclipse, Visual Studio etc. depending on the selection of development language.

Disadvantages of Selenium

- Doesn’t support uploading files from local machine

- Doesn’t support the windows application 

- Supports only application based on browsers

- Offers only one-sided support for dialog boxes

- Selenium being an open source has no official technical support

Comparison 

There are many comparisons between the features of Selenium and QTP. Selenium only supports web applications. QTP supports client server applications only (e.g. built in TCL or TK and PowerBuilder). For Selenium it is portable and open source where as for QTP it is costly and licensed. The price of ten user license is around 60L. From the standpoint of UI object storage and management, For Selenium it is managed applying UI-Element user properties and extension.  For QTP, it is a set of dynamically loaded libraries stored in the Java archive file.

Conclusion

Applying Selenium as the Functional Test Automation Tool can help you reduce the cost brought upon yourself for licensing using QTP. In the initial stages, the efforts required to script for Selenium raised by about 15% than QTP. Once all the solutions are ready the efforts of automation using QTP and Selenium were almost the same.