Here is a list of
top 5 automation testing tools and
frameworks that can improve your software testing outcomes significantly.
List of 5 Best Automation Testing Tools:
1
– Selenium
Selenium is used for cross-browser
testing and for web-browser test automation. To use this
tool, the testers must have advanced programming skills for writing complex and
advanced test scripts. These skills are required to build automation frameworks
and libraries for specific testing needs. Selenium is an open source tool that
is commonly used by developers and testers who are well versed with programming
languages such as Java, C#, Perl, Python, Scala, Groovy, PHP & Ruby.
Selenium is equipped with a powerful
Selenium WebDriver which allows you to create browser-based regression
automation suites and tests. One of the key advantages of this tool is that it
allows you to scale and distribute scripts across many environments.
2
– IBM Rational Functional Tester (RFT)
IBM RFT is well suited for regression and functional
testing. It is a data-driven testing platform that
supports applications like .Net, Java, SAP, Flex, and Ajax. The scripting
languages used by RFT are .Net and Java. One of the unique features of IBM RFT
is Storyboard testing which simplifies test visualization by recording and
visualizing user actions with the help of application screenshots in a
storyboard format. It also allows editing using natural language. It also
offers integration with IBM Jazz application lifecycle management like IBM
Rotational Team Concert and Rational Quality Manager.
3-
Cucumber
Cucumber is a Behavior
Driven Development (BDD) framework which allows functional
validation in an easily understandable and readable format. BDD is an approach
which is an extension of Test Driven Development and
it is used to test the system as a whole rather than testing a particular piece
of code.
Cucumber is a tool for working with the
executable specifications. The executable specifications are used for greater
collaboration among IT and business teams. This tool is useful for writing
acceptance tests for the web application. Cucumber offers feature files that can
be used as a go-to-documents by Business Analysts, Developers, and Testers,
etc. Initially, Cucumber was implemented in Ruby language but later it was
extended to the Java framework. Cucumber supports languages such as Perl,
PHP, Python, Net etc.
4
– TestComplete
TestComplete allows you to build and run
functional UI tests. This is an automation testing tool that is well suited to
test desktop, mobile, and web applications. The tool allows you to write test
in most popular languages such as Python, JavaScript, and VBScript, etc.
It allows you to record and replay tests. It offers GUI UI object
recognition capabilities that detect and update UI objects automatically. It
helps in reducing the efforts required to maintain test scripts. With TestComplete
it is rather easy to scale tests across 1500+ real test environments to provide
complete test coverage.
5
– eggPlant
One of the best automation testing tools
for application and GUI testing is eggPlant. TestPlant developed eggPlant for
testers to perform different types of testing. While most of the automation
tool follows an object-based approach, eggPlant works on an image-based
approach. The tool allows testers to interact with the application the
same way the end users will do. In eggPlant, you can use a single script to
perform testing on many platforms such as Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris,
etc.
eggPlant offers a suite of test automation
tools to perform different types of testing. eggPlant functional testing tool
is used for functional testing and eggPlant performance is used for
performance, load and stress testing.
Summary
Each of the above-mentioned testing tools
offers some unique features that help to improve the quality of the released
software. You can choose any of these automation testing tools based on
your project requirement. Apart from these automation testing tools, you
require the right test management tool to get the desired results from your
software testing.
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