QTP9.5 vs. TestComplete7

Andrei在http://qaheaven.com/的一篇名为《HP QTP 9.5 vs AutomatedQA TestComplete 7》的文章中对比了QTP9.5与TC7：

	QTP 9.5	TestComplete 7
User-friendly and accessible information to have this comparison done	A big NO	Yes
OS Supported	Windows2000—Service Pack4, Update Rollup1 for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 WindowsXP 32-Bit Edition—ServicePack 2 WindowsXP 64-Bit Edition—Service Pack2 Windows Server2003 32-Bit Edition—Service Pack2 Windows Server2003 R2 (32-Bit x86) Windows2003 64-Bit Edition Windows Vista32-bit Edition Windows Vista64-bit Edition—Service Pack 2	Windows Mobile, Win CE, Smartphone support Windows NT Windows 2000 32-bit and 64-bit support Windows XP 32-bit and 64-bit support Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit support
Development based type of applications	Windows applications created in Visual C++, Visual Basic, Delphi, C++Builder .NET, WPF and Java applications, web applications and web services 32-bit as well as 64-bit applications.	Windows applications created in Visual C++, Visual Basic, Delphi, C++Builder, PowerBuilder, Visual FoxPro and other development tools. .NET, WPF and Java applications, web applications and web services, Flash, Flex and Silverlight applications. Applications running on portable devices such as PDAs, Pocket PCs and smartphones. 32-bit as well as 64-bit applications. CORBA objects.
Types of testing	Manual Coverage Keyword driven Regression Functional Unit	Functional unit regression white-box keyword driven Load/Stress/Scalability Distributed Coverage Manual
Softw Lang supported	yes	yes
Debugger	yes	yes
User friendly IDE	yes	yes
Screenshots	yes	yes
Error handling	yes	yes
Built-in operations	yes	yes
Checkpoints usage	yes	yes
Record and play	yes	yes
Object Validation	Yes	yes
Extensions (custom checkpoint types)	yes	yes
Detailed test log	Yes	Yes
Custom Test logs	Yes	yes
Test log filtering/grouping/formatting	No	yes
Test log export	HTML	Html, XML, MHT, archived, email, added to issue-tracking-system
Custom Controls testing support	yes	Yes
Data driven test	Yes	yes
DB support	yes	yes
Excel/Text support as external data sources	Excel/Zip	Excel and Text
Emulator support	AttachmateWRQ EXTRA! 9, Terminal Viewer (compatible EXTRA! 9), Reflection for Unix and OpenVMS sessions 14, Reflection 14 (Note: Reflection 13 is not supported.) Hummingbird HostExplorer 2007 (Note: HostExplorer 2006 is not supported) IBM IBM 5.9, IBM WebSphere Host On-Demand 10 NetManage RUMBA 7.5, RUMBA Web-to-Host 5.3 Seagull BlueZone 4 Zephyr PASSPORT 2007, PASSPORT PC TO HOST / WEB TO HOST 2004 and 2007	MS-DOS
Multiple data support for running automated tests	Yes	yes
Object Browser	yes	yes
View system info	yes	yes
ActiveX and COM obj exploring	yes	yes
Integration with Source Control System	HP Quality Center	Visual SourceSafe, CVS and others
Integration with Visual Studio	no	yes
Integration with other Team systems	- can’t tell	Yes (e.g. MSBuild projects)
schedule nightly automated tests	Yes	yes
Extended Automated testing support	yes	Windows API functions, functions located in DLLs and .NET assemblies, ActiveX, COM and WMI objects
Unicode support	yes	yes
Custom plugins	Can’t tell	SDK (http://www.automatedqa.com/products/testcomplete/sdk/)
Download Trial Version	yes	yes
License type	No info available	Enterprise – $1999; Standard $999
Online support	Yes	Yes
Difficulty to learn the product	Medium	Easy
Self-paced training	Easy	Easy
Overall (my opinion)	Can wait. Use it only if QC & LoadRunner are a must-have inside your company	Worth every penny.

可以看到TC在很多方面都不比QTP逊色，而最大的特点是价格低廉！