Micro Focus UFT One

Good ROI in terms of moving manual test cases to automation

Costlier tool compared to other enterprise automation tools

Web automation is well to go with open source tools like Selenium

Client is happy as automation saves time.

It is very expensive so not able to buy more licences and somewhat limits user access.

Needs specialists who are good in vbscripting so training takes up some time.

We start getting positive ROI after two years of purchasing HP UFT licenses since it is very costly tool.

Since test cases automated in less than expected time as learning curve is smaller with UFT, we are able to reduce our time to market & our program was able to handle multiple production deployments since regression was 90% automated using HP UFT.

Though the scripting time is less with UFT, the execution time is relatively higher as it takes the entire armor along pushing load on CPU & RAM. So execution time need to be considered before going ahead with UFT.

Since UFT supports not only UI testing but backend (Oracle, Greenplum) & web service testing as well, we are able to achieve automation using single tool.

Fares quite well if the Test Suite is expected to be executed at least three times.

For applications, which are not prone to frequent changes, the maintenance cost is less where HP UFT is used.

Not quite suitable for fact paced agile environment or with applications that get changed frequently.

After the initial outlay, it's soon possible to develop reusable assets and frameworks to be used throughout the different test suites.

For one suite, ROI was achieved within 17 different runs. As this was carried out against different code drops and environments this happened in about three months.

Proper robust automation will allow you to cover many different business scenarios in less time that manual folks will be able to just test the basics.

UFT is a very good investment for any organization because one tool is capable of handling different types of testing, so the organization is spending more money for one tool rather spending a higher price for different set of tools for different purposes.

HP does offer good packages and payment plans for UFT licenses and the price is well managed if the number of licenses increases.

One of the most reliable and oldest tools in the market which provides available resource and technical support based on an organization's need.

Reduces the total workload of keeping the team to test older (regression) functionality. QA testers can concentrate on ad-hoc and exploratory testing, saving time and effort across the entire project.

Has built a better infrastructure for the client applications on which we can rely on for stability and providing regression results for any new features being developed.

Led the applications a step closer to implementing agile practices and DevOps across the entire organization. Thus, providing a better turnaround time of new features to the customers and less maintenance headaches for the BAU team to address.

Very positive impact on ROI

We have cut down manual testing drastically and increased the test coverage

ROI - was created a robust nightly regression suite for one application, and later started to automate other applications in the company and adding it for the nightly regression. This saved a lot of time during our testing phase as we used Agile methodology.

ROI is evident after the first uses of HP UFT, the fact that you can execute several automated test cases with several iterations without the need to employ several testers to do the task a big save in time and resources.

The best utilization of HP UFT is for companies that have multiple applications (SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle etc.) or to companies that are constantly introducing changes and improvements to their existing applications. In that way the testing can be automated and executed whenever needed without the need to hire multiple testing resources.

The negative impact would be the cost of HP UFT, then again if the plan is to use the tool in the long term, the investment pays for itself no doubt about it.