Difference Between Qtp and Selenium

Major difference between QTP and Selenium are :

• Selenium and QTP , both of them are automation testing tools.
• Selenium is an open source tool while QTP is not an open source tool. It is owned by the HP.
• Selenium is used to test only web based applications where as QTP can be used to test wide variety of applications like web based, .net based, Java based, mainframe applications.
• Selenium supports scripting in many different languages like Java, .Net, Python, Ruby etc While in QTP only vb scripting is provided.
• Web automation testing with selenium requires less cost as compared to automation using QTP due to license cost.

FEATURES	SELENIUM	QTP
Cost	Open source & Portable	Licensed and very expensive.
Application support	Web Applications only	Client server applications only (like built in TCL/TK and PowerBuilder)
Support for web browsers	Supports IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera,Androidbrowser,chrome	Supports IE & Firefox only
Object Oriented Language support ,Scalability	Supports Java, .Net, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby	Supports VB script only
Support for operating system/platforms	Supports Windows ,PC/MAC/UNIX Platforms,Linux.	Support Windows only
Support for Test management tool integration	Not available. Need to track separately	TD/QC will be easily integrated
Environment Set Up Required	We can use wide range of IDEs like Eclipse, Netbeans, Visual Studio etc	Requires Seperate Environment
UI object management & Storage	Managed using UI-Element user extension and properties A set of dynamically loaded libraries that is stored in the Java archive file.	Built-in object repository and easy handling
DataDriven Testing	Requires Extensive coding	Complex VB Script Coding is required
Database support	Requires Extensive Coding	With the help of DSN (ODBC32 Interface)