With the advancement in technology, there are more mobile applications in the market. Most of such applications come with complex functionality, which requires extensive testing to ensure an error free application. Automated software testing has become a key aspect for many such applications. It caters the need to verify key functionality, perform regression testing, and run a large number of tests quickly. However, there are cases where manual testing is required in addition to automated testing.
There are various automated software testing tools that help build and execute automated tests. However, there are certain areas in which automated testing is still a challenge. For example, testing the UI of desktop-based applications is challenging as the tools are either commercial or expensive. This trend is changing with more and more web-based applications coming up in the market. Testing a web-based interface is easy as compared to desktop-based application, as there are various open source tools available for this.
Web Testing Tools
In order to ensure that the application didn’t introduce any bugs, automated web testing is extremely important. Web automation testing gives confidence to the development team to write code and make changes. This also helps them to quickly verify the functionality after each change. However, because of the inconsistent UI, automated testing of web application could be challenging. This is because of the chances of incompatibilities between browsers and platform.
Selenium
Selenium is one of the most popular automated web testing tools. It caters the need to automate web browsers across multiple platforms.
Watir
Watir is a collection of Ruby libraries that helps you write tests that are easy to read and maintain. Watir emulates users on the page and check the results with the expected ones.
Windmill
Windmill is another popular web based testing tool, which allows testers to debug and automate web applications. It includes test recorder, JavaScript integration, and interactive shell.
Ranorex
Ranorex is very useful in automating web application and recording user interactions. These can be played back to execute the tests.
SoapUI
SoapUI is exclusively designed to perform cross-platform testing and test SOAP and REST APIs.
Sahi
Sahi is an open source tool for automation of web application. However, it is also available as a professional edition.
Tellurium
Tellurium allows you to design and write automated tests using English as a language, without any scripting experience.
GUI Testing Tools
As discussed earlier, automated testing for desktop application is quite complex as compared to web applications. This is because a slight change in the user interface can result in broken tests. However, there are tools that can help you build robust GUI tests for various platforms and operating systems.
Squish
Squish is a comprehensive GUI testing tool for various platforms. It helps tester and developers to build automated tests using popular scripting languages, like JavaScript, Perl, etc.
TestComplete
TestComplete is a popular automated testing tool for the Windows platform. It helps you to record, script, and run GUI tests for applications that are built using different frameworks.
TestStudio
TestStudio is a very powerful testing tool for functional and load automation on various platforms.
eggPlant
eggPlant is an ideal tool for enterprise teams testing professional software applications. This GUI test automation tool can be used to automate various applications, like .NET, Java, etc.
