IBM Rational Test Workbench vs OpenText UFT One comparison

IBM and OpenText are both solutions in the API Testing Tools category. IBM is ranked #14, while OpenText is ranked #7 with an average rating of 7.7. IBM holds a 0.6% mindshare in APIT, compared to OpenText’s 11.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

IBM Rational Test Workbench

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87% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

OpenText UFT One and IBM Rational Test Workbench compete in the test automation market. IBM Rational Test Workbench has the upper hand due to its advanced capabilities and comprehensive feature set.

Features: OpenText UFT One supports various automation technologies, integrates seamlessly with other OpenText tools, and is user-friendly. IBM Rational Test Workbench manages complex test environments, offers extensive reporting capabilities, and provides robust feature sets.

Room for Improvement: OpenText UFT One could improve its debugging process, provide better support for non-standard applications, and enhance its technical features. IBM Rational Test Workbench needs to improve its user experience, simplify the setup process, and streamline its interface.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenText UFT One has an easy deployment process and responsive customer service. IBM Rational Test Workbench has a complex deployment but offers comprehensive support services.

Pricing and ROI: OpenText UFT One users find the setup cost reasonable with satisfactory ROI due to efficient testing processes. IBM Rational Test Workbench is more expensive, but its advanced features justify the higher cost, leading to excellent ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Rational Test Workbench

Ranking in API Testing Tools

14th

Ranking in Test Automation Tools

36th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Performance Testing Tools (19th)

OpenText UFT One

Ranking in API Testing Tools

7th

Ranking in Test Automation Tools

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Functional Testing Tools (2nd), Mobile App Testing Tools (2nd), Regression Testing Tools (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the API Testing Tools category, the mindshare of IBM Rational Test Workbench is 0.6%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText UFT One is 11.5%, up from 9.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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KashifJamil

CEO at Xcelliti

Good integration with other tools, stable, scales easily

There are a number of things that they can do to simplify the tools, but the most important thing that they need to do is simplify the installation. This includes the workbench as well as the other tools. In the future, I would like to see the other types of tests supported, that are not already covered in the DevOps approach. This would include, for example, penetration testing.

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Don Ingerson

Sr. QA Automation Engineer at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

With regularly occurring releases, a QA team member can schedule tests, let the tests run unattended, and then examine the results

With certainty, 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. For example, UFT supports GUI testing of Oracle, PeopleSoft, PowerBuilder, SAP (v7.20), Siebel, Stingray, Terminal Emulator, Putty, and Windows Objects (particularly Dialog Boxes). Furthermore, UFT has the built-in functionality to import Excel input files. For Web browsers, UFT 12.54 supports IE9, IE10, IE11, Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome (versions 31.0 to 54.9), Firefox (versions 27.0 to 49.0). Besides GUI testing, UFT supports database testing and API testing (Docker, WSDL, and SOAP). For the first time ever, HP started to expand the testing capabilities of UFT (QTP) beyond Windows beginning with UFT 12.00. A UFT user can now run tests on Web applications on a Safari browser that is running on a remote Mac computer.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"This solution provides for API testing, functional UI testing, performance testing, and service virtualization."

"Reporting is pretty good. Its interface is also good. I'm overall pretty happy with the functionality and use of IBM Rational Test Workbench."

"It is a stable solution."

"It's not only web-based but also for backend applications; you can also do the integration of the applications."

"The shared repositories can be used throughout all testing which makes jobs easier."

"I find UFT One to be very good for thick clients, which are non-browser applications."

"With certainty, 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. For example, UFT supports GUI testing of Oracle, PeopleSoft, PowerBuilder, SAP (v7.20), Siebel, Stingray, Terminal Emulator, Putty, and Windows Objects (particularly Dialog Boxes). Furthermore, UFT has the built-in functionality to import Excel input files."

"Micro Focus UFT One is a great tool and can be used in a variety of ways."

"The solution is easy to integrate with other platforms."

"Record and Replay to ease onboarding of new users."

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Cons

"It should have more interfaces. In terms of interfaces or protocols, what you can do with Rational is far limited as compared to other products out there. What it does, it does great, but it only gives you limited types of protocols. It supports between 8 to 15 types of protocols, whereas other test tools give you 20 to 30 types of protocols with which you can do testing and convert to script. It records Javascript-based scripts, and you got to know a little bit of Java to basically be able to edit them, but the level of editing you got to do is very low. I like that, but the ability to edit the script is not as good as Parasoft or LoadRunner, which have C-Script."

"There are a number of things that they can do to simplify the tools, but the most important thing that they need to do is simplify the installation."

"Perhaps more coverage as far as different languages go. I'm talking more about object identification."

"I would like to have detailed description provided to test the cloud-based applications."

"The solution is expensive."

"They need to reduce the cost because it is pretty high. It's approximately $3,000 per user."

"[Tech support is] not a 10 because what happens with some of our issues is that we might not get a patch quickly and we have to hold on to an application until we get a proper solution."

"The price is very high. They should work to lower the costs for their clients."

"One thing that confused me, and now just mildly irritates me, is that we migrated from QuickTest Pro to HP UFT, Unified Functional Test. After we did the migration, it turned out that we didn't really have Unified Functional Test at all."

"I'd like to see test case-related reports included in the solution."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It doesn't really concern me. Licensing is on a yearly basis."

"The pricing is a little bit on the higher side, although it is really good."

"Compared to other tools in the market, UFT One is very competitive. The recent Covid pandemic situation also hit customer budgets significantly, so Micro Focus offered some discounted prices, which is definitely competitive."

"It took about five years to break even. UFT is costly."

"The price is one aspect that could be improved."

"The licensing cost is high. There are no additional costs to the standard license."

"The solution is priced reasonably for what features it is providing. However, it might be expensive for some."

"OpenText UFT One is a very expensive solution."

"The tool's price is high."

"We have ALM licensing, and the tool is free of cost."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

32%

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

17%

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

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How does Micro Focus UFT One compare to Tricentis Tosca?

We reviewed MicroFocus UFT One but ultimately chose to use Tricentis Tosca because we needed API testing. MicroFocus UFT is a performance and functional testing tool. We tested it, and it was well...

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What do you like most about Micro Focus UFT One?

My company has not had an issue with OpenText UFT One since we have been using it for the past three to four years.

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What needs improvement with Micro Focus UFT One?

OpenText UFT One required knowledge of VBScript, which is a limited version of Visual Basic. We frequently encountered stability issues when the browser dependency caused Windows to consume memory ...

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Also Known As

Rational Test Workbench, IBM Rational Performance Tester, IBM Functional Tester, IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server

Micro Focus UFT One, Micro Focus UFT (QTP), QTP, Quick Test Pro

Overview

IBM Rational Test Workbench provides a comprehensive test automation solution for mobile applications, regression testing, integration technologies and performance and scalability testing. It helps you build intelligent and interconnected enterprise applications that can be deployed on traditional and cloud infrastructures. With Rational Test Workbench, you can significantly reduce test cycle times, moving integration testing earlier in the development lifecycle.

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Financial Insurance Management Corp.

Sage, JetBlue, Haufe.Group, Independent Health, Molina Healthcare, Cox Automotive, andTMNA Services

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