State advantage of Selenium over UFT?

Selenium and QTP (now UFT) hold an advantage over each other. Lets first discuss the advantage of Selenium over UFT.

1. Selenium is an open-source tool, which means it's free to use and source code available can be modified as per the requirements. However, UFT is a paid tool.
   
2. Selenium supports cross-browser testing as well as it supports almost all the available browser and even the upcoming ones as it just needs their drivers to be installed. However, UFT just supports IE, Firefox and Chrome browsers.
   
3. Selenium supports multiple OS however, UFT supports only windows operating system.
   
4. By using a Selenium grid, one can operate multiple tests on multiple browsers and over multiple environments simultaneously. UFT can also do the same thing but you need UFT+QC (Quality Center – Which is again a paid tool) to execute multiple tests on multiple browsers and over multiple environments simultaneously.
   
5. Even if the browser is minimized, one can execute the test cases in selenium however, in UFT application under test needs to be visible on the desktop.