Category: Functional Test Automation Tools

Tool Name: WATIR

Category: Functional Test Automation Tool

Company: Watir

Latest Version: 1.3.7

Summary:

Watir, pronounced water, is an open-source (BSD) family of Ruby libraries for automating web browsers. It allows you to write tests that are easy to read and maintain. It is simple and flexible.

Watir drives browsers the same way people do. It clicks links, fills in forms, presses buttons. Watir also checks results, such as whether expected text appears on the page.

Watir is a family of Ruby libraries but it supports your app no matter what technology it is developed in. They support Internet Explorer on Windows, Firefox and Chrome on Windows, Mac and Linux and Safari on Mac.

Like other programming languages, Ruby gives you the power to connect to databases, read data files and spreadsheets, export XML, and structure your code as reusable libraries. Unlike other programming languages, Ruby is concise and often a joy to read.

Key Features:

Why Watir?

• It’s a free Open Source tool. There are no costs to use the tool.
• There’s a very active and growing community behind it.
• It uses Ruby, a full-featured modern scripting language, rather than a proprietary vendorscript.
• It supports your web app no matter what it is developed in.
• It supports multiple browsers on different platforms.
• It is powerful and easy to use, yet beautifully lightweight.

Supported Platform: WINDOWS, MAC and LINUX

Download from: http://watir.com/installation/

Tool Name: TestMaker

Category: Functional Test Automation Tool

Company: PushToTest

Latest Version: 6

Summary:

PushToTest is the open source application performance management and test automation solutions provider. PushToTest is paving the open source test (OST) solutions migration into the mainstream by making high-quality, low-cost technology accessible to medium and large size global organizations and by providing world class professional services.

PushToTest provides a software testing orchestration platform along with cloud testing capabilities and outsourced testing solutions, as well as support, training, and consulting services to customers worldwide and through top-tier partnerships. PushToTest TestMaker is the easiest way to move your team from manual functional testing of your web applications to automated functional, load and performance tests, and production monitoring.

Key Features:

TestMaker™ 6 is the latest version of PushToTest’s next generation Ajax and Flex Web application testing framework. TestMaker 6 features the new TestMaker Object Designer for record/playback of Rich Internet Applications (RIA, using Ajax, Flex, Flash,) an advanced Test Runtime Kernel for fast and stable test operation and support of new test types (Sahi, HTTP Archive HAR, and Flex Automation API tests,) and an advanced Results Analysis Engine to produce thousands of root cause analysis charts.

TestMaker Object Designer records Selenium, Sahi, and Flex tests in IE, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Opera. With this release, PushToTest is the single open source platform for developers and testers needing functional testing, load and performance testing, and production monitoring of Web applications and Rich Internet Applications.

Supported Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac

Download trial version: http://www.pushtotest.com/products-comparison

Contact:

Appvance Worldwide HQ
1250 Oakmead Pkwy
Suite 210
Sunnyvale, CA 94085

Tool Name: TestDrive – Robust Automated Testing for Everyone

Category: Functional Test Automation Tool

Company: Original Software

Latest Version: V7

Summary:

TestDrive is our Automated Software Quality (ASQ) solution that addresses these requirements to achieve rapid automation. It is designed to test browser and legacy applications, as well as GUIs, including Java™, Ajax, Flex® and Silverlight®.

The next generation technology incorporated into TestDrive brings practical business benefits that offer you options. For example, you might choose to conduct more comprehensive testing in the same time frame to reduce risk, or carry out the same amount of testing but finish quicker, or to use fewer costly resources, or any combination of these. The choice is yours.

The result is higher quality applications, delivered to market in a shorter period of time. In essence, the whole application development process becomes more productive.

Key Features:

• Code-free testing technology means there is no scripting language to be learnt.
• Test scenarios are created through point and click interface.
• Unique self healing script technology allows users to run existing scripts over updated versions of the application. These scripts will update to incorporate changes according to preset criteria.
• Out of the box support for AJAX, .NET, Oracle, Java, JSP’s Perl, Python, PHP etc. As well as all major development languages.

Benefits:

• Remove your manual testing bottlenecks
• Reduce your time to market
• Increase test coverage
• Minimise script maintenance
• Achieve Agile automation

Supported Platform:

• Windows and Linux
• Out of the box support for AJAX, .NET, Oracle, Java, JSP’s Perl, Python, PHP etc. As well as all major development languages.

Download URL: http://www.origsoft.com/products/testdrive

Contact:

Original Software
Executive Place III
1010 Executive Court
Suite 230
Westmont IL 60559
USA

Email: solutions.na@origsoft.com

Tool Name: TestBench – Intelligent Database Management and Verification

Category: Functional Test Automation Tool

Company: Original Software

Latest Version: V7

Summary:

TestBench is our solution that uniquely addresses the validation of all database effects and the creation of cut down, representative test data to reduce test times and data footprints. Data confidentiality is addressed and the unique user-managed data roll-back capability reduces environment downtime, improving testing productivity and accuracy.

Traditionally, software test automation tools concentrate on testing only what the eye can see. We believe this strategy – looking for defects in only one area – to be an unacceptable compromise. We take a more holistic approach that embraces this visual layer but is equally rigorous in examining the underlying activity in the database. TestBench integrates with other testing solutions from Original Software in a way which is accessible to both users and testers to ensure you retain ‘total application quality’.

In short, TestBench is a class-leading, totally comprehensive, proven test data management and verification solution.

Key Features:

• Intelligent Data Extraction
• Data Scrambling
• Checkpoints and Rollback
• Result Comparison
• Table/file comparison

Benefits:

• Ensure test data privacy for compliance
• Manage your test environment effectively
• Verify and validate your application data
• Protect your test data
• Extraction reports for auditing

Supported Platform:

• Windows and Linux
• Total Application Quality for SQL Server, Oracle and System i

Download URL: http://www.origsoft.com/products/testbench/

Contact:

Original Software
Executive Place III
1010 Executive Court
Suite 230
Westmont IL 60559
USA

Email: solutions.na@origsoft.com

Tool Name: TestingBot

Category: Functional Test Automation Tool

Company: TestingBot

Latest Version: 1.0

Summary:

TestingBot provides website owners easy cross browser testing. We make sure your website looks and behaves the same on all browsers. With the help of Selenium scripts, you tell us what we should test on your website. We continuously monitor your website for bugs and mistakes. When a test fails, we alert you. This way your website stays bug-free and you don’t end up losing visitors and revenue.

Key Features:

TestingBot supports Selenium, which means you can run your Selenium scripts on our grid. We also support webdriver, which is the newer version of Selenium. With our testlab feature, we can test your website with your Selenium script on a daily basis at specific times and intervals. When something on your website fails, we’ll alert you.

Supported Platform:

Windows – Mac – Linux. We support Selenium and Webdriver, we have built custom plugins to use our grid with PHP (PHPUnit), Ruby (RSpec and Test::Unit), Python (PyUnit) and Java (JUnit).

Download trial version from: www.testingbot.com

Contact:

TestingBot
Vlinderhof 18
9180 Moerbeke
Belgium

Email: info@testingbot.com

Tool Name: TestOptimal

Category: Functional Test Automation Tool

Company: TestOptimal LLC

Latest Version: 3.1

Summary:

TestOptimal is a suite of model-based test automation tools. It is intended for functional, regression, progression and performance / load testing. It provides test case generation and test automation in one single package.

With TestOptimal, you start by creating the model with the simple Finite State Machine notation (aka state diagram) followed by writing snippets of xml scripts (mScript) for each transition in the model. TestOptimal automatically generates series of test sequences to cover all transitions in the model and executes these test sequences on the application under test (AUT).

One of the advantages is that same models developed for progression testing are re-used for regression testing and re-purposed for load testing.

Key Features:

• MBT Modeling – Finite State Machine notation.
• SuperState and SubModel – organize and partition larger model into smaller re-usable library components.
• Graphs – model graph, sequence graph and coverage graph.
• Model Import/Merge – UML XMI model and other XML based graph modeling formats (GraphXML and GraphML).
• Test Case Generation – from random walk to minimal traversals to mCase (custom test case).
• Scripting – java and mScript (xml based scripting).
• Data Driven Testing (DDT) – scriptless DDT, read data from database or Excel.
• JDBC/ODBC Support – access to relational databases to read, write, store and verify test result.
• Integration – java IDE (Eclipse, NetBeans), JUnit, batch / cron, REST websvc and remote agent to integrate with other test automation tools.
• Cross Browser – test web applications on IE, Firefox and many other browsers.
• Extensibility – custom plug-in capability to test varied types of applications.
• Debug – set breakpoints and ste1p through model execution, visual highlighting during debugging, automatically log test steps that lead to the failures.
• Load Testing – virtual users, realistic simulation of production load.
• Reporting – test coverage, failure and performance stats, statistical analysis, 5 levels of defect categorization.
• IDE Web App – browser based application on major browsers including PDA and iPhone
• Security – Ldap and file based HTTP authentication to prevent unauthorized access.
• Requirement Traceability – tag requirements to states, transitions or mSript.
• Test Data Generation – various ways to generate test data including pairwise and combinatorial algorithms.
• Model Animation – visually displays transition traversals on the graph during model execution.
• Test Multiple Types of Applications Simultaneously – synchronize testing of web application, windows application and backend process at the same time.

Supported Platform: Windows and Linux

Download 30-day trial: http://testoptimal.com/downloads

Contact:

http://testoptimal.com/toticket

Tool Name: SymbioTeam

Category: Functional Test Automation Tool

Company: SymbioWare

Latest Version: On-demand

Summary:

SymbioWare’s On-Demand eBusiness Assurance solutions test, monitor, and report on critical multi-step user interactions as a business defines them, and in the way that customers experience them.

SymbioWare SymbioTeam enables Cloud-based functional testing and user activity monitoring for the modern e-business applications. By simulating complex user interactions in real time, SymbioTeam provides the assurance that your customers can conduct business with you, and that each transaction is executed correctly according to your business rules.

Key Features:

SymbioTeam includes the following capabilities, all tightly integrated to speed up deployment and boost productivity:

• Test planning and management
• Requirements setting
• Unit, functional and regression testing
• Load and performance testing
• Performance monitoring
• Service level management Issue tracking

Our Focus Solutions integrate all the automated software testing and monitoring tools you need to continually maximize the reliability of your applications or Web sites throughout their entire lifecycle. Each Focus Solution is proven through real world customer deployments, and is based upon SymbioWare’s unrivaled experience in quality optimization.

• Web Application Testing
• E-Retailers
• Force.com Developers
• Selenium Integration
• Customer Experience Monitoring

SymbioTeam Automated Testing Features:

• Smart Test Editor provides the fastest and easiest way to create automated tests for Web and Windows applications in plain English through a point-and-click intuitive graphical user interface, with no programming skills required.
• Advanced Web GUI Explorer discovers and captures graphical objects built with HTML, AJAX, and Flash. It uses Document Object Model (DOM) to discover GUI objects in the Web AUT.
• Web Recorder records test scenarios and plays them back directly in the browser.
• JavaScript Advanced Support extends a wide set of predefined functions and gives you the flexibility to handle a wide array of testing challenges, using a standard programming environment.
• AJAX and Rich Web Application Support enables automation of the most complex Web applications and associated technologies.
• Built-in Selenium Support allows preserving your investment into Selenium, while also enhancing and extending Selenium scripts with SymbioTeam native features.
• Test Data Tables Wizard simplifies the creation of data-driven tests so you can leverage data sources to drive your automated tests.
• Comprehensive Notification and Reporting provides data on test case execution, including the performance data for each step, screen shots where possible, error information, and a reference to the executed test instruction.
• Distributed Agent Technology provides the most accurate user simulation. It offers the granularity needed for a single pass/fail measurement of a truly distributed transaction.
• The OneTest Approach allows you to use the same automation tests, without modification, for functional and regression testing, load and performance testing, and application monitoring.

With SymbioTeam, you can extend and enhance your Selenium script with data-driven features, flow control, JavaScript, AJAX capturing, and SQL connectivity. These and other functions that otherwise require programming skills are easy with SymbioTeam.

• Import Selenium HTML/Java scripts
• Reuse your existing Selenium code, preserve skills
• Full test cycle management for Selenium
• Add reporting, analytics, and bug tracking to your Selenium tests

Supported Platform:

As Web (multi-browser, HTML, AJAX, Flash, Web services), Windows desktop, Mainframe. Since SymbioTeam is deployed in the cloud and is delivered to you on-demand, there are no any specific platform requirements. For local installation within your own environment, please contact SymbioWare

Download trial version from:http://freetrial.symbioware.com/freetrial/app/login.aspx?registertrial=1