TOP 10 AUTOMATION TOOLS FOR SOFTWARE TESTING

1. Selenium
2. TestingWhiz
3. HPE Unified Functional Testing
4. TestComplete
5. Ranorex
6. Sahi
7. Watir
8. Tosca Testsuite
9. Telerik TestStudio
10. Katalon Studio

Selenium: 

Selenium is the testing framework for performing web application testing in various browsers and platforms like Windows, Mac, & Linux. Selenium testing framework helps the tester to write tests in different languages like Java, Python, C#, PHP, Ruby, and Perl. Selenium offered a tester to record and playback feature to write tests without knowing Selenium IDE.

Selenium proudly supporting some of the largest, well-known browser vendors makes sure that they have selenium as a native of their browser.

TestingWhiz: 

TestingWhiz is testing automation tool which is code-less scripting by Cygnet Infotech, CMMi Level 3 IT solutions provider. TestingWhiz Enterprise has offered a complete package of various automated testing solutions like Web testing, Software testing, Database testing, API testing, and Mobile app testing.

• Keyword Driven, DataDriven, and Distributed testing
• Browser extension testing
• Object Eye Internal recorder
• SMTP Integration
• Module Integration with bug tracking tools like Jira, Mantis, TFS, and FogBugz
• Integration with test management tools like HP Quality center, Zephyr, TestRail, and Microsoft VSTS
• Centralized Object Repository
• Version Control System Integration
• Customized Recording Rule

HPE Unified Functional Testing (HP - UFT formerly QTP): 

HP QuickTest professional renamed to HPE unified functional testing. HPE UFT offers testing automation for functional and regression testing for software applications.

Visual Basic Scripting Edition scripting language is used by this tool to register the test process and operates the various objects and controls in testing the applications.

QTP offers various features like: 

• 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

TestComplete: 

TestComplete is a functional testing platform that offers various solutions to 

automate testing for desktop, web, and mobile applications by SmartBear Software.

TestComplete offers 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

Ranorex:

Ranorex Studio offers various testing automation tools that cover testing all desktop, web, and mobile applications.

Ranorex offers the following features:

• GUI recognition
• Reusable test codes
• Bug detection
• Integration with various tools
• Record and playback

Sahi:

Sahi is a testing automation tool to automate web application testing. The open-source Sahi is written in Java and JavaScript programming languages.

Sahi provides the following features:

• Performs multi-browser testing
• Supports ExtJS, ZK, Dojo, YUI, etc. frameworks
• Record and Playback on the browser testing

Watir:

Watir is an open-source testing tool made up of Ruby libraries to automate web application testing. It is pronounced as "water."

Watir offers the following features:

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

Tosca Testsuite:

Tosca TestSuite by Tricentis uses model-based test automation to automate software testing.

Tosca TestSuite comes with the following capabilities:

• Plan and design test case
• Test data provisioning
• Service virtualization network
• Tests mobile apps
• Integration management
• Risk coverage

Telerik TestStudio:

Telerik TestStudio offers one solution to automate desktop, web, and mobile application testing including UI, load, and performance testing.

Telerik TestStudio offers various compatibilities like:

• Support of programming languages like HTML, AJAX, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Silverlight, WPF, and MVC
• Integration with Visual Basic Studio 2010 and 2012
• Record and playback
• Cross-browser testing
• Manual testing
• Integration with bug tracking tools

Katalon Studio:

Katalon Studio is a free automation testing solution developed by Katalon LLC. The software is built on top of the open-source automation frameworks Selenium, Appium with a specialized IDE interface for API, web, and mobile testing. This tool includes a full package of powerful features that help overcome common challenges in web UI test automation.

Katalon Studio consists of the following features:

• Built-in object repository, XPath, object re-identification
• Supports Java/Groovy scripting languages
• Built-in support for image-based testing
• Support Continuous Integration tools like Jenkins & TeamCity
• Supports Duel-editor Interface
• Customizable execution workflow