UFT 14.1 Installation Guide

Step by step instructions to download and install UFT 14.1

HP has released the latest version of Unified Functional Testing – UFT 14.01 on 18 August 2017. The trial/licensed version of this software is available for download now.

Note -: UFT 12.00, UFT 12.53, UFT 14 and UFT 14.1 versions are available for download. 

Below UFT 12.00 versions no longer available.

UFT installation overview

This guide provides details about how to install UFT from the full installation package, as well as a compressed, lighter installation package downloadable from the Web. In either package, installing UFT provides core UFT features, the Run Results Viewer, and the following mandatory GUI testing add-ins:

Web

.NET

Visual Basic

ActiveX

Windows Runtime (when installing on computers with Windows 8.x and higher, and Windows Server 2012)

You can select additional add-ins during installation as per your business application requirement.

Note -: Web 2.0 add-ins and extensibility toolkits must be installed separately from the full installation package, after the UFT installation is complete

14.01 Effective Sep 1st, 2017 HPE Software is part of MicroFocus. Same updated the UFT download link to the new site.

The lighter or compressed installation package provides the UFT setup program only.

The full installation package provides the UFT setup program, as well as additional setup programs for UFT components. To install an additional component, select it from the UFT installation wizard Start-up screen.

1.   Go to Download location UFT 14.1

2.  Sign up to this site and  click on download  button

3.  Fill in your required details and click ‘Sign up’ button.

4. Next verify your email.

5. Next after verification login to account.

6. Now inside from your account go to ‘More Products’ option and choose ‘Unified Functional Testing (UFT) from the list.

7.    On the next page select option Start your free trial

8.    It will open another page, detailing about what is included in UFT trial. Click ‘Next’ button

9.    Now in your account UFT will be displayed as Trial. Next hit Download button in front of UFT

10. On the next page, UFT Downloads will be displayed. There will be two option first one is ‘A full installation package’ and second one is ‘A compressed downloadable UFT installation package’. Choose the first one ‘A full installation package’ and click on the link

11. The full installation package is nearly 3.1 GB while the compressed downloadable is less than 1 GB in size. It may take time to download (depending upon your internet speed)

12.  Once downloaded, you will get a zip file.

13. Use your favorite unzipping software to extract files.

14. Go to Unzip folder "HPE_UFT_14.00_DVD_Electronic_Release_UFT1400_DVD"

Before you start with installation, make sure that –

·         You have administrative privileges on the drive where you wish to install UFT.

• UFT needs permission to read/write files for below mentioned folders and subfolders
• The Temp folder
• Folder containing UFT solution, tests and run result
• Program files->Unified Function Tool->HP
• Program data -> HPE
• User profile folder
• %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\HPE
• %appdata%\Hewlett-Packard\UFT
• %appdata%\HEP\API Testing

Also it require read permission for windows and System folder. 

·      You have Windows 7 SP1/Windows 8/Windows 10 on your machine. [Check UFT_PAM.pdf for the complete list of compatible software. This pdf is available under the same folder where Setup.exe is present]

·         You can upgrade directly to the most recent version of UFT from any previous version of UFT, or from Service Test 11.50. For other upgrades, including versions of QuickTest or Service Test versions earlier than 11.50, manually uninstall QuickTest or Service Test, and then install UFT

if you upgrading your UFT version with new one, ensure that you have restarted your system.

Installation Guidelines

1.    Invoke your installation by clicking Setup.exe

2.    Accept terms and condition after reading License agreement

3.    Select feature that you want install

a.   You can select any time required feature to following same steps

b.   While selection of option you can select install on local drive or Entire feature installed on local hard drive

c.   Install on local drive -: Install selected feature on local drive and sub feature of selected feature will be not installed.

d.  Entire feature installed on local drive -: Install entire features along with sub-features on your local hard drive

Example -: You can tell UFT to install .NET with its sub add-ins like Silverlight and WPF.

4.    Click on next button and wait

5.    Select options from Configuration screen

a.    Configure Internet Explore settings -: Enable UFT to use Microsoft Script debugger application test runs.

b.    Enable running UFT remotely from ALM -: Changes DCOM permission and security settings and opens a firewall port on your UFT Computer.

c.    Enable running UFT from Automation script -: Changes in DCOM settings and security settings to enable other computer to remotely control UFT using automation scripts

6. Also you need to perform another mandatory installation for web 2.0 tool-kits that extensionality provides you more support to identify object which is not supported currently.

Now UFT is ready for testing activities.

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