Best Automation Tools

HP-QuickTest Professional (now UFT11.5) software provides functional and regression test automation for software applications and environments. HP QuickTest Professional supports keyword and scripting interfaces and features a graphical user interface.

Selenium is a portable software testing framework for web applications. Selenium provides a record/playback tool for authoring tests without learning a test scripting language. It includes features like record and playback, intelligent field selection, Xpath as needed, auto complete for all common selenium commands, walk through tests, debug and set breakpoints, ruby scripts, or other formats, support for selenium user-extensions file, option to automatically assert the title of every page etc. 

Watir, pronounced water, is an open-source (BSD) family of ruby libraries for automating web browsers. It allows you to write tests that are easy to read and maintain. It is simple and flexible.

Visual Studio Test Professional is an integrated testing toolset developed by Microsoft that delivers a complete plan-test-track workflow for in-context collaboration between testers and developers, in order to increase testers’ visibility to the overall project. Its features are file actionable bugs, manual testing, re-use manual test recordings, team foundation server, application lifecycle management etc.

Rational Functional Tester is an automated functional testing and regression testing tool. Provides testers with automated testing capabilities for functional testing, regression testing, and GUI testing and data-driven testing. It’s features are: simplify test creation and visualization with storyboard testing, provides lifecycle traceability, validate dynamic data with dynamic data validation wizard, streamline automation with keyword testing, proxy SDK, test script version control for parallel development, etc.

TestComplete is an automated testing tool that lets you create, manage and run tests for any windows, web or rich client software. It makes it easy for anyone to create automated tests. Some features are open APIs, easy extensibility, tons of documentation, scripted testing for total flexibility, windows and web testing, application support etc. It is an easy to use, all-in-one package that lets anyone start automating tests in minutes with no special skills. It has a low price, powerful features and impressive support resources.

TestPartner is an automated test tool that accelerates functional testing and facilitates the delivery of business-critical applications. Testpartner works via a tiered approach to testing that enables developers, quality experts and non-technical application users to collaborate and test more in the time available. Its features are: visual storyboard oriented approach, automated regression testing, automatic, object-oriented script generation, integrates with VBA etc.

Testing Anywhere is a powerful and easy to use automated software testing tool that allows users to automate any type of testing. Powerful GUI based recording capabilities and a no-programming required user interface allows testers to quickly set up even complex test cases. A built-in editor allows users to build tests that can be easily edited to allow for changes in the test cases.

SoapUI is an open source web service testing application for service-oriented architectures (SOA). Its functionality covers web service inspection, invoking, development, simulation and mocking, functional testing, load and compliance testing.

EggPlant is a two-computer system, consisting of a controller machine, where scripts are authored and executed, and a system-under-test which runs a VNC server. Eggplant connects to this VNC server via its built-in viewer via TCP/IP. The system-under-test can be any system that has a VNC server for it. Its approach uses image matching technology as opposed to looking to the object-level of the application being tested. This allows for system-wide automation of a system-under-test as opposed to an application-specific solution. It also means that the technology used to build the application to be tested does not matter, nor does the system that the application runs on.

Sikuli is a visual technology to automate and test graphical user interfaces (GUI) using images (screenshots) of the software under test. It may be used like Selenium to control a web page and also other PC (Windows, Mac OS X and Linux) applications, and even an iPhone or Android application running in a simulator or via VNC. Sikuli Script is a visual scripting API using Jython to create automation scripts. Sikuli includes an integrated development environment (IDE) for writing visual Sikuli scripts with screenshots. 

Telerik TestStudio is an all in one testing software for functional, load, performance and mobile app testing. The in-depth functional testing includes native web and desktop apps testing along with mobile and tablet apps, HTML5, AJAX, Silverlight and WPF apps testing.

 

TOSCA TestSuite is a software tool for the automated execution of functional and regression software testing. In addition to test automation functions, it includes integrated test management, a graphical user interface (GUI), a command line interface (CLI) and an application programming interface (API), generation of dynamic, synthetic test data, highly automated business dynamic steering of test case generation and the unified handling and executing of manual and automated as well as GUI and non-GUI tests etc.

SOATest automates web application testing, message/protocol testing, cloud testing and security testing. Parasoft SOAtest and Parasoft load test (packaged together) ensure secure, reliable, compliant business processes and seamlessly integrate with Parasoft language products (e.g., Parasoft Jtst) to help teams prevent and detect application-layer defects from the start of the SDLC. Some features are client/server emulation, multi-layer verification, test case organization, regression testing, automatic test case generation, coding standard enforcement, soap -based enterprise system which operates as both the soap client and the soap server. This allows for early module testing of the applications.

TestDrive is a full-featured automated testing solution designed to test GUI and browser applications "out-of-the-box". Significant reductions in timescales and advanced levels of quality can be achieved without the complexity of traditional testing tools. TestDrive integrates with all the other elements of our solution suite so that tests can be run from within Qualify, scripts can be built automatically from manual test results within TestDrive-Assist, and effects in the database can be simultaneously verified in TestBench.