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# UFT Developer reference for UFT experts

UFT Developer was designed for a smooth migration from Unified Functional Testing (UFT).

The table below provides information on parallels between UFT and UFT Developer terminology and functionality, sorted in alphabetical order by UFT feature.

UFT | UFT Developer | See:
--- | --- | ---
Add-in Manager | Engine settings tab of the UFT Developer Settings dialog box. | Customize UFT Developer runtime engine settings
Checkpoints (standard & bitmap) | Verify class VerifyImage and LocateImage methods | Verifications
Default learned test object properties | Recommended properties | Object Identification Center
DeviceReplay | Mouse and Keyboard classes | .NET SDK Reference or the Java SDK Reference
Insight | Insight | Insight image-based identification (Windows only)
.Object | NativeObject | Access native objects, methods, and properties
Object Identification Configuration | Object Identification tab of the UFT Developer Settings dialog box | Customize how to identify objects
Object Repository | Application Model | Application models Convert UFT object repositories to UFT Developer application models
Object Spy | Object Identification Center (OIC) | Object Identification Center
OCR text methods | GetVisibleText and GetTextLocations methods, available for all test objects. GetText and LocateText methods of the ImageUtils class | Tips & tricks - OCR methods (Windows only)
Options dialog box (Settings that apply to all tests on the computer) | Engine settings tab of the UFT Developer Settings dialog box. | Customize UFT Developer runtime engine settings
Ordinal identifiers | Index Xpath identification CSS identification | Tips & tricks - Web testing
Programmatic Descriptions | Programmatic Descriptions | Add SDK test object steps to your tests How do I generate test object description code?
Record and Run dialog box (Web) | Browser.Launch (to run a new browser) or Browser.Attach (to run on an already open browser. | Tips & tricks - Web testing
Test Settings dialog box (Settings that are saved with the test) | App.config (Visual Studio) or leanft.properties (Eclipse, Spring Tool Suite, JBoss Developer Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, or Android Studio) file | Customize test settings
Text Recognition (OCR) | GetVisibleText and GetTextLocations methods of all test objects. GetText and LocateText methods of the ImageUtils class. | .NET SDK Reference Java SDK Reference JavaScript SDK Reference Tips & tricks - OCR methods (Windows only)
Visual Relation Identifiers (VRI) | Visual Relation Identifiers (VRI) | Use Visual Relation Identifiers (VRIs)

Tip: Throughout this Help, the notation <UFT Developer installation>\... is used to indicate the location of various UFT Developer files. However, if you install UFT Developer as a feature of the UFT installation, then the folder you use for the UFT installation is also the <UFT Developer installation> folder. For example, if we specify that a file is located in <UFT Developer installation>\bin and you installed UFT Developer as part of the UFT installation, you will find that UFT Developer file in <UFT installation folder>\bin.

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