Software testing tools

 Following are the categories of the software testing tools:

1.    Automated software testing tools - comes with the whole package of various types of software testing

 

2.    Database testing tools - specific to database testing

 

3.    Regression testing tools - specific to regression testing

 

4.    Browser testing tools - specific to browser testing

  5.    API testing tools - specific to web services/API testing

 

6.    Functional testing tools - specific to functional testing

 

7.    UI test automation tools - specific to UI testing

 

Below are the testing tools:

1. Selenium

Selenium is a testing framework to perform web application testing across various browsers and platforms like Windows, Mac, and Linux. Selenium helps the testers to write tests in various programming languages like Java, PHP, C#, Python, Groovy, Ruby, and Perl. It offers record and playback features to write tests without learning Selenium IDE.

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2. TestingWhiz

TestingWhiz is a test automation tool with the code-less scripting by Cygnet Infotech, a CMMi Level 3 IT solutions provider. TestingWhiz tool’s Enterprise edition offers a complete package of various automated testing solutions like web testing, software testing, database testing, API testing, mobile app testing, regression test suite maintenance, optimization, and automation, and cross-browser testing.

TestingWhiz offers various important features like:

• Keyword-driven, data-driven testing, and distributed testing
• Browser Extension Testing
• Object Eye Internal Recorder
• SMTP Integration
• 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

3. HPE Unified Functional Testing (HP – UFT formerly QTP)

HP QuickTest Professional was 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 processes 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

 

4. 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

5. 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

6. Sahi

Sahi is a testing automation tool to automate web applications 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

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7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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