Comparison between Selenium and QTP

Have you ever wondered whether to go for Selenium Web Driver or QTP?

We are giving a clear difference between these two. Take up your requirements and decide !!

FEATURES	SELENIUM	QTP
Cost	Open source & Portable	Licensed and very expensive; Ten user license costs approx. 60L
Application support	Web Applications only	Client server applications only (like built in TCL/TK and PowerBuilder)
Support for web browsers	Supports IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera	Supports IE & Firefox only
Object Oriented Language support & Scalability	Supports Java, .Net, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby	Supports VB script only
Support for operating system/platforms	Supports Windows PC/MAC/UNIX Platforms	Supports Windows Platform only
Support for Test management tool integration	Not available. Need to track separately	TD/QC will be easily integrated
Test Development Environment	We can use wide range of IDEs like Eclipse, Netbeans, Visual Studio etc	Need Separate environment
UI object management & Storage	Managed using UI-Element user extension and properties A set of dynamically loaded libraries that is stored in the Java archive file.	Built-in object repository and easy handling
Support for Dialog Boxes	Supports partially	Supports all kinds of dialog boxes
Support for File upload (system)	Not available	Supports all kinds of File upload

Conclusion:-

· Using Selenium as the Functional Test Automation Tool, you can reduce the cost incurred for licensing using QTP.

· The efforts involved in scripting for Selenium increased by about 15 % than QTP in the initial stages. Once all the solutions are in place the efforts of automation using Selenium and QTP were almost the same.

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