Top 45 Test Automation Tools – Every QA must know!
1. Selenium WebDriver
2. Cucumber
3. Serenity
4. UFT/QTP
5. LeanFT
6. PhantomJS
7. Automation Anywhere
8. CodedUI
9. TestComplete
10.Sikuli
11.AutoIt
12.Applitools
13.Protractor
14.Watir
15.Powershell
16.qTest
17.White
18.Appium
19.Robot Framework
20.Ca Agile Designer
21.GraphWalker
22.Ranorex
23.HipTest
24.Eggplant
25.TestArchitect
26.Galen
27.Tricentis
28.Espresso
29.TestIm
30.Cypress.io
31.WebDriver.IO
32.Mabl
33.Jest
34.Katalon Studio
35.Progress (Telerik)
36.Sahi
37.Gauge
38.RedwoodHQ
39.WinAppDriver
40.IBM Rational Functional Tester
41.Test.AI
42.Worksoft
43.Oracle Application Testing Suite (OATS)
44.TestingWhiz
45.TestCafe
1. Selenium WebDriver
OK–this is a no-brainer. As of now, Seleniumis the leading automated regression testing option for browser-based website automated testing automation.
Selenium is not a standalone-testing tool.
It’s an API that allows you to programmatically write tests using most programming languages to interact with a browser the way a real user would. This is probably one of the most popular website automation testing tools listed.
You can’t start a list on automation testing tools open source or vendor based without having Selenium first.
2. Cucumber
Cucumberwas not designed to be an automation test tool; it’s a tool that helps conversation and removes ambiguity from requirements before your team invests time in writing code.
However, it does have a unique benefit; once you’ve got test scenarios created, you can generate what they can “executable specifications,” using whatever automation library is supported by the programming language that you use.
3. Serenity
If you need an automated test toolJava-based framework that integrates with behavior-driven development (BDD) tools such as Cucumber and JBehave, and lets you keep your test scenarios at a high level while accommodating lower-level implementation details in your reports, SerenityBDD (formerly Thucydides) might be the tool for you. It’s designed to make writing automated acceptance and regression tests easier.
Serenity acts as a wrapper on top of Selenium WebDriver and BDD tools. It makes writing BDD and Selenium tests easier because it abstracts away much of the boilerplate code you sometimes need to write to get started. Serenity also offers plenty of built-in functionality, such as handling WebDriver management, managing state between steps, taking screenshots, running tests in parallel, facilitating Jira integration and more—all without having to write a single line of code.
Serenity creates highly detailed reports. Out of the box, it creates living documentation you can use not only to view your Selenium BDD test results but also as documentation for your application.
It also has an extra annotation method called @Step. When used correctly, @Step gives you an extra level of abstraction that makes your tests more reusable and maintainable.
Serenity takes care of many things you would typically have to code from scratch if you were creating your own BDD framework. It’s one of the better open-source frameworks available, although I might be a bit biased; it’s the tool I use for my day-to-day test automation efforts.
4. Unified Functional Testing – Quick Test Professional
Unified Functional Testing(UFT) is a test automation tool that was initially developed by Mercury Interactive and was named Quick Test Professional (QTP). It was later acquired by HP and rebranded as Unified Functional Testing. Micro Focus recently purchased it, so Lord knows what the marketing geniuses there will end up calling it.
Before Selenium became the defacto browser-based automation solution, QTP/UFT was one of the most popular automation testing tools on the market.
It’s still is one of the top automation tools for folks who need a tool that automates more than just web browsers. Not only does it have web testing functionality, but it also has support for other diverse technologies like WPF, NET, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, Siebel, Terminal Emulators and more. Using a tool like UFT allows you to automate complete end-to-end testing workflows that might have interactions with non-web-based applications.
5. LeanFT
Lean Functional Testing (LeanFT) essentially combines the best of the vendor-based and open-source worlds by morphing Selenium with some essential functionality currently found in UFT.
HP built LeanFT from the ground up to address the growing modern automation demands of continuous testing, mobile a, d DevOps. What’s especially cool is that LeanFT fits into your developer’s ecosystem, so your developers can still use their favorite IDEs, programming languages and unit testing frameworks–not to mention the added benefit of access to HP Web/Windows-based technologies that Selenium doesn’t provide.
6. PhantomJS
PhantomJSis an open source browser that runs headlessly. It gives you the ability to create fast scripts using its JavaScript API to automate a bunch of cool things including the ability to run functional tests using frameworks like Jasmine and WebDriver as well as do screen capturing and network monitoring.
Update:PhantomJS is pretty much dead. The project itself has been archived. So for new development, it is probably not the best option. Most folks have moved to Puppeteerinstead.
7. Automation Anywhere
Automation Anywherehas a marketing twist when describing its automated test tool solution. They explain that their automation uses “software robots” to automate scriptless end-to-end tests. The three main areas AA highlights for their product is:
• RAP – automate every rule-based process
• Cognitive – self-learning automation
• Analytics – real-time, operational intelligence with enterprise-wide business
8. CodedUI
CodedUIis Microsoft technology for test automation for the Windows platform.
You can automate WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation add-ins, Windows Forms applications, Windows 32 apps, mobile applications and of course, browser-based automation in IE and Chrome and Firefox with a Selenium plugin.
CodedUI is an API you can program against using Visual Studio and languages like Visual Basic and C#.
9. TestComplete
SmartBear’s TestCompleteplatform helps you create repeatable and accurate automated tests across multiple devices, platforms and environments quickly and easily.
The latest version of TestComplete is even better due to its support of Selenium WebDriver and unit testing. Best of all, you can choose from script-free, drag and drop functionality or JavaScript, Python, VBScript, JScript, DelphiScript, C++Script or C#Script as a scripting language.
10. Sikuli
SikuliX can help automate anything you see on the screen of your desktop computer running Windows, Mac or some Linux/Unix. Sikuliuses image recognition powered by OpenCV to identify and control GUI components.
11. AutoIt
AutoItv3 is a freeware, BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting. While not the most robust tool from all the other automated testing tools but many teams integrate AutoIt with Seleniumto work around non-browser windows that appear in an automated test workflow.
12. Applitools
While most automated testing tools on this listed were created for functional testing Applitoolswas developed from the ground up, specifically for visual validation. Visual Software Testing is the process of validating the visual aspects of an application’s User Interface (UI).
In addition to validating that the UI displays the correct content or data, Visual Testing focuses on proving the layout and appearance of each visual element of the UI and the UI as a whole.
13. Protractor
Protractoris a layer that sits on top of Selenium used for end-to-end testing for Angular.
It runs Selenium in the background, but it provides all sorts of really cool hooks into your AngularJs application. As a result, you can start grabbing your data bindings, and you can begin using some Angular goodness like ng-repeats, etc.
You can also grab those elements with the Angular semantics and you can add to them, read from them, and verify that your page has the correct data.
If you’re looking for automated testing tools that were made specifically for AngularJS application you should check this out.
14. Watir
Watiris an open-source Ruby library for automating tests. Watir interacts with a browser the same way people do: clicking links, filling out forms and validating text.
15. PowerShell
PowerShellis a Microsoft product. Anytime you want to use the command line or automate anything inside of the Windows ecosystem (or pretty much any Microsoft product) you’ll want to go with PowerShell. While not usually considered in a list of automated testing tools I still consider this a viable option for DevOps based automation. There is even a BDD framework for it called Pester that some teams love.
16. QASymphony qTest
qTest Scenario is a JIRA plugin that was designed to help you quickly manage your BDD/TDD end-to-end workflows, including creating and executing tests as well as acting as a centralized repository for test results, test defects management and resolution. They developed qTest Scenario with some essential team benefits in mind, like:
• Helping your teams work faster
• Increasing productivity and collaboration
• Helping you focus more on your end users
• Helping you scale your test-first efforts across your organization
17. White Framework
Are you a QTP/UFT engineer who has wished there was a way to automate .NET and WPF applications using Visual Studio and C# rather than QuickTest Professional or Unified Functional Testing?
Do you need to automate a thick client application like WPF, Silverlight, Win32 or WinForms? If so, then Whitemay be the automation framework for you.
White is an open-source library from Test Stack. Like CodedUI, it has a more narrow scope; it only targets desktop applications, not web applications. Both CodedUI and White are based on UI Automation Library for Microsoft.
There are not many automation testing tools that handle .NET applications so this is a valuable tool for folks that have to test such technologies. It’s also easy to get started using White.
18. Appium
Appiumis a free, open-source, cross-platform mobile UI automation framework. It allows you to write UI tests for your mobile apps, Android iOS and some other OSs. It also lets you create test scripts using the Selenium JSON writer you know and love from web automation.
Appium is becoming an industry standard for mobile testing, much as Selenium WebDriver became the standard for browser-based automation a few years ago.
19. Robot Framework
If you want to use Python for test automation, you can’t go wrong with the Robot Framework. This mature product, created for testers, uses a keyword-driven approach to make tests readable and easy to create.
It also includes many test libraries and other tools you can use. The Robot Framework is Python-based, but you can also use Jython (Java) or IronPython (.NET).
While the Selenium WebDriver library may be the most used external test library, Robot Framework can test things other than websites including FTP, MongoDB, Android and Appium. In addition to all this open-source awesomeness, it has a lot of APIs that help make it as extensible as possible.
The keyword approach used by Robot Framework is excellent for testers who are already familiar with other vendor-based, keyword-driven test tools, making the transition to open source much more comfortable for them.
If your team is mostly made up of testers, Robot Framework is an excellent option for your automation framework.
20. CA Agile Designer
The CA Agile Requirements Designerautomation tool takes a unique approach to test automation. Rather than focusing on the code, it creates automated tests automatically using model-based requirements. Using a model-based approach is cool because it can auto-generate and update test cases whenever a change is made to the model.
21. GraphWalker
If a model-based approach for test automation sounds like a solution that would work for your team, but you have a tight budget, check out GraphWalker.
GraphWalker is an open source Model-based testing tool for test automation. It’s designed to make it easy to design your tests using graphs.
22. Ranorex
Ranorex test studio is a functional test automation tool that is driven by the user interface. It helps you automate anything when it comes to web applications, mobile applications or desktop-based applications.
23. HipTest
HipTestis a new breed of test management tool and BDD Framework. Many teams that use BDD have a hard time managing all their manual, exploratory and automated tests in one place.
To address this issue, HipTest has developed a single platform to help with those BDD testing efforts. It’s a simple platform in the Cloud that supports real-time collaboration between product owner, testers, and developers.
24. TestPlant
TestPlantis one of the only test automation tools on this list that has strong support for Apple’s platform. Because of its unique, image-based recognition abilities, it’s known for its ability to test hard-to-automate applications; especially those with object recognition issues. Unfortunately, however, anyone who has done image-based, functional test automation understands how difficult these types of tests can be to maintain, and some customers have noted that as an issue.
25. TestArchitect
TestArchitectis a codeless, keyword-driven automation framework that makes it easy for teams to create and manage large test suites.
But tests change and they change very rapidly. How do you rapidly change the test and maintaining it and updating it so that you can scale? That was the thinking behind the design of Test Architect.
26. Galen Framework
If you need to focus your automation efforts on user experience design (UX) or layout testing, Galen Frameworkmight be a perfect fit for your needs.
Created specifically for UX testing, Galen has a special syntax and rules you can use to describe and verify your application’s layout. It also lets you specify your browser size, then run tests against your software to check layout specifications. Galen tests also generate detailed HTML reports with screenshots, and it includes a visual image comparison with a cool heat map feature.
You can write tests in a simple text file using the Galen syntax, JavaScript, or Java.
27. Tricentis
Tricentisis self-billed as “the continuous testing company.” They have a strong focus on supporting Agile testing and CI processes. Their solution Tosca boasts a scriptless technology that is used for functional test automation
28. Espresso
Espressois a native mobile testing framework for Android testing.
29. Testim
Testimleverages machine learning to speed up the authoring, execution and–most importantly–the maintenance of automated tests. Their goal is to help you to start trusting your tests.
Testim focuses on reducing your flaky tests and test maintenance, which they see as one of the most significant challenges for most organizations.
30. Cypress.io
Compared to most of the other tools on this list, Cypressis a more developer-centric test automation framework that focuses on making test-driven development (TDD) a reality for developers. One of its design principles was to be able to package and bundle everything together to make the entire end-to-end testing experience pleasant and simple.
It has a different architecture than Selenium; while Selenium WebDriver runs remotely outside the browser, Cypress runs inside of it.
This approach delivers more consistent results since it’s able to understand everything that happens inside and outside the browser. It also gives you native access to every object without requiring you to deal with object serialization or over-the-wire protocols. You’re pulling your application into Cypress.
As a result, it can synchronously notify you of every single thing that happens inside the browser so that you have native access to every distributed object model (DOM) element.
Cypress also makes it easy to simply drop a debugger into your application, which in turn makes it easier to use the developer tools while you’re developing. Of all the automation testing tools listed here, Cypress is the one that I hear most developers prefer to use.
31. WebDriver.IO
WebDriver.IOis another browser-based automation testing tools module but this one is for Node.JS that makes it possible to write super easy Selenium tests in your favorite BDD/TDD test framework that will either run locally or in the Cloud using Sauce Labs, BrowserStack or TestingBot.
I like how Kevin Lamping in TestTalks Episode 179 describes the chief benefit of using WebDriverIO as being like the SeleniumJSbinding on steroids!
WebDriverIO is agnostic about the test framework you use so that you can leverage tools like Cucumber, Jasmine, and Mocha+Chai.
If you’re a QA engineer who’s just getting started, WebDriver.IO might be the way to go because–in my opinion–JavaScript with WebDriverIO is a lot easier to pick up than Java.
32. Mabl
Mablis one of the newer automation testing tools on the market that focuses on the hot trend of using AI and machine learning to help folks with their testing efforts. In a nutshell, to get started you merely point Mabl to your application. It will then crawl your app’s screens and begin to run default tests that are common for most applications.
Along the way, it also uses machine learning algorithms to improve test execution and defect detection. Using the Mabl trainer chrome extension, you can also train Mabl to learn journeys in your application which describe the functionality Mabl will test.
33. Jest
There are tons of JavaScript automation frameworksout there, but Jestseems to be the most developer friendly. It’s used by Facebook to test all JavaScript code including React applications. It also is advertised as having zero configuration setup time, so it’s easy to get started with.
34. Katalon Studio
Katalon Studiois an open-source solution that includes many features you would typically only find in a paid vendor tool like Record and Playback, reporting, Object Spy, Object Map and more. You can use it to create automated tests for Web, API and mobile apps. It even runs on both Windows and Mac.
35. Progress (Telerik)
For those of you who may not be familiar with Progress, they recently acquired Telerik test studio, which is the home of the favorite free debugging tool Fiddler. I also know a few test engineers who use Progress’s Test Studio as a front end for their Selenium test automation efforts.
Strengths of Progress are its integration with Visual Studio and its supported languages.
36. Sahi
Developed for testing web applications, Sahioffers both an open source and a pro version. It works as a proxy server you can use within a browser. From the Sahi dashboard, you can launch the browser you want to test.
The Sahi controller guides you through the recording and capturing of the interaction you want to perform against the application. When you hover over any element in the Sahi browser, for instance, it shows you all of the actions you can perform against that element.
You can also use the controller to play back your script. Sahi’s Record and Playback functionality make it easy to get started with test automation.
37. Gauge
Gaugeis one of the newest open-source test automation tools for Mac, Windows and Linux. It was developed by the folks at ThoughtWorks–the same company that created Selenium.
Practitioners of TDD and BDD will appreciate Gauge’s focus on creating living and executable documentation.
Gauge automation tests, called “specs,” are written in a simple markdown language syntax using Java, Ruby, and C# within developer IDEs such as Eclipse and Visual Studio. You can also extend Gauge’s functionality with its support for plugins.
38. RedwoodHQ
RedwoodHQtakes a slightly different approach than the other tools on this list. It creates a website interface that lets multiple testers work together and run tests from one Web-accessible location.
You can write tests in Java/Groovy, Python and C# to test Web applications with Selenium, APIs or databases using their web IDE, which also includes built-in Git integration.
You can leverage RedwoodHQ’s existing action keywords to start creating and modifying tests quickly. To create a test script, simply find the action you want to perform, drag it into your test case, and enter the parameter values it expects.
The built-in IDE lets you create and modify test cases and actions as well as execute tests. You can also run your tests against predefined machines in parallel and see a running history of all your previous tests runs.
RedwoodHQ is tester friendly and has many built-in features you can use to create complete test automation and test management solutions for your teams.
39. WinAppDriver
Windows Application Driver (WinAppDriver), developed by Yousef Durr at Microsoft, is the Windows implementation of Appium to automate Windows applications. This is really cool because it shows the next evolution of Appium to expand beyond just mobile applications and more toward automating all the things the Appium team is calling the StarDriver vision.
40. IBM Rational Functional Tester
Like most companies, IBM’s test portfolio has grown with the acquisition of tools like Rational and Green Hat. Much of the strength of Rational Functional Testercomes from its support of numerous technologies like Siebel, PowerBuilder, Java and can run on Windows, Mac, and mobile platforms.
41. Test.AI
Test.AIis billed as a tool that will add an AI brain to Selenium and Appium. It was created by Jason Arbon, co-author of How Google Tests Softwareand the founder of Appdiff. Tests are defined in a simple format similar to the BDD syntax of Cucumber, so it requires no code and no need to mess with element identifiers.
The AI identifies screens and elements dynamically in any app and automatically drives your application to execute test cases.
42. Worksoft
Some time only developer ERP applications. In those cases, a tool like Worksoftmight be the perfect choice for you. Worksoft is well known for its ERP business end-to-end solutions.
43. Oracle Application Testing Suite (OATS)
Does your team do a lot of Oracle-based software development? Need a tool to help test your regression and performance test your Oracle applications or databases?
Oracle Application Testing suitecontains a bunch of integrated products to help with Oracle Functional Testing for regression testing of web applications and Oracle Load Testing for performance testing of your Oracle packaged solutions.
44. TestingWhiz
TestingWhizmotto is Code Less, Test More. They have solutions for Web Test Automation, Mobile Test Automation, Automated Database Testing, Mobile Test Automation and more.
45. TestCafe
TestCafe is an open sourced Node.js tool designed to automate end-to-end web testing. For a full review check my article on out What is TestCafe
In this I will talk about top 45 test automation tools available in the market.
How frequently these tools are being used and purpose of each tool.
In this I will talk about top 45 test automation tools available in the market. How frequently these tools are being used and purpose of each tool.
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