What is the difference between QTP (UFT) and Selenium?

QTP and Selenium are the most popular automation testing tools in the testing industry.

Please find below the difference between QTP and Selenium below.

1. QTP can be used to automate desktop and web applications developed in .Net, Java, VB.Net, Siebel, Peoplesoft etc. But Selenium can be used to automate only web applications.
2. QTP is a licensed tool developed by HP. While Selenium is an open source tool.
3. QTP only supports vb scripting. Selenium automation can be done using Java, .Net, PHP, Python, Ruby.
4. In QTP, there is a concept of object repository to store the objects in the application. In selenium there is no such concept. In Selenium we can identify elements in the web page using xpath, css selectors etc.

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