THE BEST TESTING AUTOMATION TOOLS FOR SOFTWARE TESTING

The rapid growth of automation is increasing its demand and trends in our software testing industry. If you go through any software or application testing communities you will find software testers discussing various tools that can be helpful in their day to day testing activities, irrespective of desktop testing, web testing, browser testing, regression testing, web services and API testing.Here's an overview of the most trending software testing automation tools to help in all kinds of software testing

Selenium

Selenium is a testing framework to perform web application testing across various browsers and platforms like Windows, Mac, and Linux. It helps the testers to write tests in various programming languages like Java, PHP, C#, Python, Groovy, Ruby, and Perl. It offers record and playback features to write tests without learning Selenium IDE.The best thing about this tool is, it supports some of the largest and well-known browser where Selenium are used as a native part of their browser. In fact, Selenium is undoubtedly the base for most of the other software testing tools in general.

TestingWhiz

A test automation tool having code-less scripting by Cygnet Infotech, a CMMi Level 3 IT solutions provider. The Enterprise edition of TestingWhiz offers a complete package of various automated testing solutions like web testing, software testing, database testing, API testing, mobile app testing, regression test suite maintenance, optimization, and automation, and cross-browser testing.TestingWhiz offers various important features like:

• Keyword-driven, data-driven testing, and distributed testing
• Record and playback test automation framework
• Object Eye Internal Recorder
• 290+ inbuilt testing commands in addition to in-built JavaScript
• Integration with bug tracking tools like Jira, Mantis, and FogBugz
• Integration with test management tools like HP Quality Center
• Risk-based testing
• Continuous Integration and Delivery in Agile cycles

HPE Unified Functional Testing (HP – UFT formerly QTP)

HP QuickTest Professional was renamed to HPE Unified Functional Testing or HPE UFT. It offers testing automation for functional and regression testing for the software applications. The tool uses Visual Basic Scripting Edition scripting language to register the test processes and operates various objects and controls in testing the applications.QTP offers various features like:

• Integration with Mercury Business Process Testing and Mercury Quality Center
• Unique Smart Object Recognition
• Error handling mechanism
• Creation of parameters for objects, checkpoints, and data-driven tables
• Automated documentation

TestComplete

A functional testing platform that offers various solutions to automate testing for desktop, web, and mobile applications by SmartBear Software.TestComplete offers the following features:

• GUI testing
• Scripting Language Support – JavaScript, Python, VBScript, JScript, DelphiScript, C++Script & C#Script
• Test visualizer
• Scripted testing
• Test recording and playback

Ranorex

Offers various testing automation tools that includes testing all desktop, web, and mobile applications.Ranorex offers following features:

• GUI recognition
• Reusable test codes
• Bug detection
• Integration with various tools
• Record and playback

Sahi

A testing automation tool used to automate web applications testing. The open source Sahi is written in Java and JavaScript programming languages.Sahi provides following features:

• Performs multi-browser testing
• Supports ExtJS, ZK, Dojo, YUI, etc. frameworks
• Record and playback on browser testing

Watir

An open source testing tool made up of Ruby libraries to automate web application testing.Watir offers following features:

• Tests any language-based web application
• Cross-browser testing
• Compatible with business-driven development tools like RSpec, Cucumber, and Test/Unit
• Tests web page’s buttons, forms, links, and their responses

Tosca Testsuite

Uses model-based test automation to automate software testing.Features the following:

• Plan and design test case
• Test data provisioning
• Service virtualization network
• Tests mobile apps
• Integration management
• Risk coverage

Telerik TestStudio

An automation testing tool for desktop, web, and mobile application testing including UI, load, and performance testing.Has various compatibilities like:

• Support of programming languages like HTML, AJAX, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Silverlight, WPF, and MVC
• Integration with Visual Basic Studio 2010 and 2012
• Record and playback
• Cross-browser testing
• Manual testing
• Integration with bug tracking tools

WatiN

WatiN is an open-source, C#-developed web application testing tool that was inspired by Watir. It supports web application testing for .Net programming languages. The tool is licensed under Apache 2.0.Consists of following features:

• Supports HTML and AJAX website testing
• Integration with unit testing tools
• Automate browser testing on IE and Firefox
• Generates web page screenshots
• Native support for Page and Control model