In the IT Central Station community, there are 273 Functional Testing Tools reviews, all written by real users. Of the 4,789 community members that follow the Functional Testing Tools category, we’ve handpicked reviews from 16 different users for this week’s Review Roundup.
Continue reading to read their expert advice on Functional Testing Tools.
HPE UFT (QTP)
Valuable Features
Easily Integrable
“With certainty,” writes Don Ingerson, “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.”
Ingerson then lists several examples of GUI testing that UFT supports:
Oracle
PeopleSoft
PowerBuilder
SAP (v7.20)
Siebel
Stingray
Terminal Emulator
Putty
Windows Objects
Gagneet describes HPE UFT as “well supported and lots of resources available who have certifications, but mostly used in Financial Institutions. Integrated add-on for Flex, Web Services, Silverlight, and Web HTML.”
Test Automation Capabilities
“The most valuable feature is the automation of the tests”, writes Manager8fb9. “That saves us a lot of time, especially during the regression tests.”
Room for Improvement
Better Integration Features
On the subject of integration with other environments, Manager8fb9 writes that “I would like to see the integration into HPE ALM Octane.”
Number of Objects Recognized Without Customization
“I’d like to see them improve the number of objects recognized without customization, similar to TestComplete by SmartBear” writes Consultant907, explaining that “it would save test development time, which would reduce time-to-market.”
Tricentis Tosca
Valuable Features
Fast Feedback Capabilities
Manish Kumar explains that as “today’s fast paced agile environment needs fast feedback”, the ability to work along with the development team and “test as soon as the code is available gives the organization an edge.”
Test Case Design
Tricentis Tosca’s Test Case Design “really lets you think about your test approach and strategy, it lets you automatically generate all the possible (and required) permutations and combinations of the functionality to be tested.” writes Vaibhav.
Room for Improvement
“Tosca should be improved for handling Siebel applications”, writes Bhavna Rathod Banoth. Banoth shares that her team “has tried the automation for a few different types of applications with Tosca…we face the most difficulties in the automation of that Siebel application. Tosca doesn’t handle Siebel applications as well as it handles other platform applications.”
SmartBear TestComplete
Valuable Features
Automation Testing Capabilities
Sudha Garg shares that for over a year, he has been using TestComplete for automation of functional testing and regression testing.
Not only can you “record and play test scripts”, writes Garg, but the tests can be “recorded in keyword driven or screen capture modes on some screens” and “created for regression, functional, Data-Driven Testing (DDT), (Object-Driven Testing) ODT” and so on.
For Deva Veluchamy, SmartBear TestComplete’s ability to test items and project variables “helps in managing automation suite and scheduling execution.”
Room for Improvement
Veluchamy would also like to see some improvements made in TestComplete, such as “increased performance with less memory and CPU usage” and better web testing support for applications.
Sauce Labs
Valuable Features
Testing on Multiple Browsers
Alexander Cassar discusses the ability to “test on multiple browsers and OS combinations.” Cassar refers to these testing abilities as “invaluable” and then continues to specify that “its CI integration with Jenkins is why we were able to make a case to include this product in our ATDD process.”
Room for Improvement
Inconsistent Testing
Both Reviewer577092 and Alexander Cassar write about testing failures. Reviewer577092 describes that “tests can pass or fail inconsistently”, which also includes the tunnels and jobs timing out before the app loads. This often means, he explains, that the app “has to try three or four times to get a good connection.”
Cassar describes that “rarely, some tests fail, seemingly without cause, and will succeed again the next time we run the tests.”
HPE LeanFT
Valuable Features
Developer Testing Capabilities
“The most important thing about LeanFT is that it gives us the opportunity to introduce developer testing”, writes Vineet Sood.
Like Sood, Mike Raftery also describes HPE LeanFT as “a little more developer oriented” since it’s “a little more complex than standard testing products.”
Sood continues to explain that now, thanks to LeanFT, developers “can use the same language that they’re using for their unit testing so they can contribute to that in the very beginning of the lifecycle instead of after the application has been fully developed.”
Flexibility Across Different Platforms
Naresh Kalawade names “the flexibility across different platforms” as HPE LeanFT’s most valuable feature. Kalawade gives the example that it can be used “whether it’s Eclipse using any of the programming languages.”
Room for Improvement
Lacks Support for Several Technologies
“LeanFT could support additional technologies”, writes John Faddis.
Faddis explains that “because we use it for a lot more than just web and Java and some Windows apps, further support for other technologies would be nice.”
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