Published on August 4th, 2017 | by Guest

10 Most Extensively Used Test Automation Tools

Code testing is one of the imperative stages of programming. Code development, Code inspection, and Unit Testing are the three parts of Code testing. In this era where everything is automated, software testing industry is also demanding testing automation tools heavily.

Running and executing software programs without any human intervention is what automation testing is all about. Below mentioned are some of the most extensively used test automation tools.

1. Selenium

At present, Selenium is the most popular and widely used tool in the market. This open-source web automation tool is primarily used for web applications. The testing framework of Selenium performs across various browsers and platforms like Linux, Mac, Windows, Firefox, Chrome, IE, as well as Headless Browsers. With a browser add-on Selenium IDE, the tool can record and playback, which means a tester can use these features even with learning Selenium IDE. The powerful Selenium WebDriver helps to create more complex and advanced automation scripts. Also, testers can write in various programming languages like Java, Perl, JavaScript, PHP, Python, C#, Ruby, and Groovy.

2. TestComplete

Manufactured by SmartBear Software, TestComplete is an open test platform which can automate tests across desktop, mobile, and web applications. It supports many scripting languages like JavaScript, VBScript, and Python and testing techniques like data-driven testing, keyword-driven testing, regression testing, and distributed testing.

TestComplete helps a tester create reusable and robust tests across mobile, desktop, web, and multiple devices easily and effectively. It also allows to create automated tests for iOS apps, Web, Microsoft Windows, and Android. This tool comprises 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

3. Telerik Test Studio

Telerik Test Studio is a comprehensive automation tool. Test Studio can be used manually and also offers functional UI testing, performance testing, mobile testing, exploratory testing, load testing, and testing in Visual Studio. Automating applications like Angular, ASP.NET, HTML5, JavaScript, AJAX, WPF, Silverlight, MVC, Ruby and iOS, PHP, Android are supported by Test Studio. It also supports scripting languages like VB.Net and C#.

Some of the other major features of Telerik TestStudio are:

Record and playback
Integration with Visual Basic Studio 2010 and 2012
Cross-browser testing
Integration with bug tracking tools
Manual testing

4. Robotium

This testing framework is popular automation tool for Android.

Benefits of Robotium –

It supports hybrid and native applications.
Writing automated black-box test is much easier
Integrates with Gradle, Ant, and Maven conveniently
Simple API, as all methods are available only in solo class
Automatic Delays & Timings
No need to write code , when navigating from one activity to another activity.
Test cases are Robust , due to runtime binding to UI components

5. Watir

Watir, pronounced as ‘Water’, stands for Web Application Testing in Ruby. It is a very light-weight open source tool and specially used for web application testing. Big tech giants like Oracle, SAP, and Facebook use Watir. This tool offers the following features:

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

6. HPE Unified Functional Testing (HP – UFT formerly QTP)

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise’s QuickTest Professional (QTP), is now known as Unified Functional Testing (UFT), one of the leading cross-platform automation testing tool, which provides automated functional & regression testing. It uses VB scripts to specify test procedures

Some of the unique features of HP – UFT are –

It can automate Web, PowerBuilder, Desktop, ActiveX, SAP, Delphi, Net, Flex, Java, Oracle, Siebel, Mobile, PeopleSoft, Stingray, Visual Basic etc.
It uses VBScript as the scripting language.
It offers a GUI for easy use.
Also used for enterprise quality assurance.
Tightly integrated with HP ALM (Test Management Tool) and HP LoadRunner (Performance Testing Tool)
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

7. Ranorex

Ranorex is an GUI testing tool, which is way too flexible for you to execute and automate tests flawlessly. Ranorex Studio offers various testing automation tools for web, mobile, and desktop applications. Unlike Selenium, Ranorex is much easier to install and use for non-programmers.

Ranorex offers the following unique features –

GUI recognition
Reusable test codes
Bug detection
Integration with various tools
Record and playback
Robust object identification
Use of Xpath expressions
“Click & Go” Xpath editor
UI object map editor
Automatic UI object synchronization

8. Cucumber

Scripted in Ruby, Cucumber is an open source testing tool, specially designed as per BDD concept which is Behavior-driven development. BDD is used to write acceptance tests for web application. Earlier it was restricted only to Ruby, but now, it supports other languages as well, like Java, .NET, Scala, Groovy, etc.

Features –

used to perform the automated acceptance testing
provides single up-to-date living document which have both – specification and test documentations.
It also has cross-platform OS support.
Cucumber code can be executed on different frameworks like Selenium, Ruby, etc

9. Visual Studio Test Professional

Fully-instrumented, configurable test runner and the most comprehensive testing solution for all Microsoft platforms, including phones, tablets, desktops, servers, and the cloud.

Why Visual Studio Test Professional?

With MSDN subscription you can access other Microsoft products and services
It provides exploratory browser based testing.
It is a helpful licensed tool for streamlining quality and continuous delivery.
It has the free trial facility available as well.
Conduct, Record, and Repeat Manual Tests

10. TestingWhiz

Scripted by Cygnet Infotech, TestingWhiz is a automation testing tool. It offers automation solutions for web testing, regression testing, mobile testing, cross-browser testing, and database testing.

TestingWhiz offers various important features like:

It has codeless architecture
supports continuous integration very well
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

Author Bio:

Natasha is a Content Manager at SpringPeople. She has been in the edu-tech industry for 7+ years. With a aim to provide the best bona fide information on tech trends, she is associated with SpringPeople. SpringPeople is a global premier training provider for high-end and emerging technologies, methodologies and products. Partnered with parent organizations behind these technologies, SpringPeople delivers authentic and most comprehensive training on related topics.

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