Selenium over QTP

Here is an excerpt from a recommendation made for my current project, where we chose to use Selenium rather than the established (and, in our case, mandated) QTP.

Reasons for:

·         Developers will be able to easily run tests in local sandbox environment

·         Tests can be written in Java

o   Tests can be dev-friendly; developers could assist with tests

o   Java is tidier and easier to deal with than VBS (QTP’s language), and considerably more powerful in application

o   Social element, as dev and test have another thing in common

·         Tests will be faster to execute

o   QTP has a time lag on loading (when libraries being loaded are sizeable, and also when acquiring a license from the license server)

·         Browser support includes possibility of iOS and Android emulators

·         Eclipse is the better IDE

o   Tests will be easier to create and maintain

o   Debug time will likely be faster as a result

·         Integration with continuous build systems. Selenium tests can be easily initiated from command line already, this is not quite so easy with QC/QTP.