Service Test is user friendly and requires QTP developers a relatively minimal learning curve to catch up with any changes in features that may get introduced by newer versions.
Service Test technology is primarily meant to test applications without user interface therefore falling short of helping in the test of UI applications unlike QTP.
Test Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Jan 9, 2016
When an entire script is ready in the tool and there is a modification of WSDL at the final point, you need to form the code from scratch and there will be a lot of objects in the tool that wouldn't work after the inclusion of the new WSDL, which requires significant manual effort to fix.
Software Engineer at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
Jan 18, 2016
If the license server went down, all the HPST nodes would fail their automation tests, which would bring down the entire automated test infrastructure and people would think the current build was bad.