Upgrading UFT One version causes issues with existing scripts

Hello,

I am just wondering if you it is common knowledge, and normal that when you upgrade from one version of UFT One to a new one that some of the tests that were created and working just fine in the former version won't run cleanly in the new version and will require some rework to get functioning again? I recently upgraded from UFT One 23.4 to UFT One 24.2 and noticed that several of my tests that I created in UFT One 23.4 no longer recognized objects that it did when running in UFT One 24.2. I can see this being an issue with tests that use object repositories and/or descriptive programming object recognition, but for tests that use the AI Object model for object recognition, I am kind of surprised to see this amount of rework to be necessary. What has been the experience of the community as it pertains to upgrading UFT One and having to rework the scripts? I am especially interested to hear from folks that have been using the AI object recognition. Is it just part of the cost of using these tools and it is unavoidable that there will be some rework needed for the tests when upgrading UFT One versions? Interested to hear your thoughts. Thanks in advance for your help!

Take care,
Mark

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  • Verified Answer

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    Hi Mark,

    welcome!!! There are some upgrade of UFT version that cause rework or take you to open several cases to the support.

    When we upgraded, for example, from 15.0.2 to 2021R1 we engage the support and R&D for about 6 month to make UFT stable but that thing was for a big change. The platform change a lot. We encountered problem with Excel data management, nested test (API Test) and other minor things. Now we're upgrading from 2021R1 to 23.4 and it seems quite stable but some cases we had to open. Now we're facing to a problem on API Test Http Request (POST method).

    However consider that UFT is a very big complex software that cover all the type of technology. 

    I hope you could find a solution for your problems and I'd like to hear from you also. 

    Best regards,

    Massimo.

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  • Verified Answer

    +1

    Hi Mark,

    welcome!!! There are some upgrade of UFT version that cause rework or take you to open several cases to the support.

    When we upgraded, for example, from 15.0.2 to 2021R1 we engage the support and R&D for about 6 month to make UFT stable but that thing was for a big change. The platform change a lot. We encountered problem with Excel data management, nested test (API Test) and other minor things. Now we're upgrading from 2021R1 to 23.4 and it seems quite stable but some cases we had to open. Now we're facing to a problem on API Test Http Request (POST method).

    However consider that UFT is a very big complex software that cover all the type of technology. 

    I hope you could find a solution for your problems and I'd like to hear from you also. 

    Best regards,

    Massimo.

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