1) Selenium
QA professionals use Selenium for web application automated
testing extensively to test a variety of web application efficiently by
supporting various operating systems, web browsers, and programming languages.
The tools provided by the open source test automation framework further help
testers to automate both web browsers and web-based administrative tasks. The
QA professional with programming and scripting skills can use Selenium can
further integrate Selenium with other test automation frameworks. In 2018,
testing professionals will use both Selenium WebDriver and Selenium IDE to
write tests in their preferred programming language.
2) Katalon
Studio
The open source automated testing is developed based on
Selenium and Appium. The tools provided by Katalon Studio helps QA professional
to test web applications, mobile apps, and application programming interfaces
(APIs). At the same time, Katalon Studio accelerates software testing by
keeping the test scripts lightweight and maintainable. The project templates
provided by the framework helps testers to keep the test cases, keywords, and
object repository organized. In addition to generating test scripts with
varying keywords automatically, Katalon Studio enables testers to write
advanced test scripts through an IDE. The QA professionals will use Katalon
Studio to write and execute test scripts without putting extra time and effort.
The Windows-based functional and regression testing tool was
originally developed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). At present, Micro
Focus Unified Functional Testing (UFT) is used widely by testing professionals
for evaluating web applications, mobile apps, APIs and packaged applications.
UFT accelerates software testing by supporting major web browsers and mobile
platforms, along with widely used technologies like Java, Microsoft .NET, SAP,
and Oracle. Also, it enables testers to write the test cases once and run the
same test across multiple web browsers. Likewise, the testing professionals can
also use UFT to test mobile apps with real mobile devices. UFT even facilitate
collaboration between members of a distributed software testing team.
TestComplete is a commercial automated UI testing tool. In
addition to supporting multiple scripting languages, it also allows testers to
record automated tests. It further facilitates cross-browser testing by
allowing testers to record the automated tests on a browser and then execute
the same automated test across multiple browsers. The robust tools provided by
TestComplete further helps testing professionals to perform regression testing,
maintain test scripts, facilitate continuous integration, and implement
data-driven testing. The testers can further monitor and track test progress
through a single interface.
5) Watir
Watir is almost synonymous with Ruby web applications QA
testing. It is actually a collection of Ruby libraries to automate web browsers.
While testing Ruby web applications, QA testers can use Watir to interact with
the web browser just like real users – clicking on links, validating input and
filling out forms. The open source testing tool further simplifies
cross-browser testing by supporting a number of widely used web browsers. The
developers can further perform data-driven testing by integrating Watir with a
number of software testing tools for Ruby – Cucumber, RSpec and Test/Unit.
6)
TestingWhiz
TestingWhiz is designed as a codeless automation testing
tool. The QA professionals use the commercial automation testing tool to
evaluate web applications, mobile apps, databases, API, cloud, and web
services. TestingWhiz further provides a number of solutions for automating web
application testing, regression testing, cross-browser testing, database
testing, mobile app testing, and web services testing. In addition to providing
a record-and-playback test automation tool, TestingWhiz further enables QA
testing professionals to run a number of built-in commands. The testers even
have option to integrate TestingWhiz with several widely used test management
and bug tracking tools.
7) Rational
Functional Tester
IBM has developed the automated functional and regression
testing tool. The tools provided by Rational Functional Tester (RFT) enable
testing professions to automate functional, regression, GUI, and data-driven
testing. At the same time, RFT simplifies software testing by supporting a wide
range of technologies – Java, Microsoft .NET, SAP, Adobe Flex, AJAX, Adobe PDF
documents and PowerBuilder. It further allows testers to record user actions
through a recorder and provides a number of options to customize the recorded
tests. The testers have option to perform the same test actions with varying
data sets. They can even integrate RTF with other test automation frameworks
and tools.
The tools provided by the commercial test automation
framework makes it easier for QA professionals to test desktop, web, and mobile
applications. The advanced GUI recognition capability of Ranorex Studio further
enables testers to record tests by following some simple steps. Ranorex further
reduces testing time significantly by allowing testers to reuse both code and
action modules across multiple test cases. Also, the bug tracking feature of
the test automation tool helps QA professionals to detect bugs in the code
early and quickly. At the same time, the QA professionals can also integrate
Ranorex Studio with several third-party continuous integration systems and test
management tools.
9) Telerik
Progress Test Studio
The Windows-based test automation solution provides features
and tools to accelerate testing of desktop, web, and mobile applications. The
testing professionals can even use the commercial automation testing tool to
perform functional testing, performance testing, load testing, and API testing.
In addition to providing a point-and-click recorder, Progressive Test Studio
further allows testers to write test scripts in robust programming languages
like C# and VB.NET. It facilitates seamless collaboration between programmers
and testers by storing all test elements in a centralized location and
supporting continuous integration with source control.
The modern automation testing tool is designed based on
agile methodology and DevOps principles. In addition to facilitating continuous
testing, Tricentis Tosca also overcomes important shortcomings of conventional
software testing tools. Its model-based test architecture further help testers
to maintain and reuse test scripts without putting extra time and effort. In
addition to simplifying mobile, API, exploratory testing and cross-browser
testing, Tosca supports emerging technologies like big data and robotics. It
further improves quality of test reports by including dashboards, analytics,
and risk analysis.
Software applications are becoming more complicated and
demanding with each passing day. So the enterprises will have to invest more
time and energy in automation testing tools to evaluate software applications.
The testing professionals have to evaluate various automation testing tools
based on precise needs. Hence, the choice of automation testing tools will
differ from one QA professional to another in 2018. Many organizations do not
have the resources and bandwidth for software testing. They should outsource
software QA testing and focus on their core capabilities.
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