Differences between QTP (HP UFT) and Selenium

What is QTP?

It provides functional and regression test automation for software applications and environments. HP Unified Functional Testing can be used for enterprise quality assurance.
HP Unified Functional Testing supports keyword and scripting interfaces and features a graphical user interface.[4] It uses the Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) scripting language to specify a test procedure, and to manipulate the objects and controls of the application under test


What is Selenium?

Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well.

Selenium has the support of some of the largest browser vendors who have taken (or are taking) steps to make Selenium a native part of their browser. It is also the core technology in countless other browser automation tools, APIs and frameworks.


Here we have a quick comparison:

HP UFT (QTP)	Selenium
It is commercial tool and hence it requires a license is expensive	Its an open source tool hence it does not require license and is free
It is used for testing client-server applications. It can test web- based as well as desktop applications	Using Selenium only web applications can be tested
QTP  tests can only be developed in QTP IDE	Selenium has the option of using wide range of IDEs like Visual Studio, Eclipse, Netbeans
HP UFT only supports VB script	Selenium supports JAVA, .NET, Ruby, Perl, PHP, and many other programming languages
HP UFT comes with built in object repository.  Object repository development and maintenance is quite easy in HP ALM	Selenium dose not  have such built in object repository, but object can be managed by using UI element user extension
HP UFT integrates with test management tool like HP Quality Center	There is no such tool that integrates with Selenium
All types of dialog box is supported by it	It supports dialog box partially
It supports different environments like SAP, Oracle, .NET  but user need to purchase add-on license for them	It supports addition of plug-ins to include features that are not provided by core Selenium
Automation testing is expensive due to licensing cost	Web automation testing with Selenium incurs less cost
HP QTP offers very good technical support	It has no official support, since it is an open source
HP QTP supports only VBScript . Hence Object Oriented Approach to Test Automation becomes challenging	Selenium supports mature Object Oriented Language like Java
HP QTP is more user friendly and scripts are developed quickly.	It&rsquos a low level tool with less functionality. Script requires more time to develop and maintain
Backward compatibility is powerful. Latest version of HP ALM supports code that was developed 5 years back	With new Selenium release the API changes. So Test Scripts need to be updated