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The research of software testing technology in China is mainly developed with the research of software engineering. in recent years, with the vigorous development of China's software industry and the emphasis on software quality, it has driven the rapid development of the software testing industry. it has gradually narrowed the gap with the international advanced level, and software testing is gradually becoming a new industry in China.

According to the technical trends and hot spots in 2007-18, 51Testing has conducted a large number of market research, striving to timely and accurately reflect the development and changes of China's software testing industry in 2007-18, help testers understand the development of software testing practitioners in 2019, and improve their own software testing technical level and management level.

The following is a summary of the top automated testing tools and frameworks based on surveys over the years, which can help organizations better position themselves and keep up with software testing trends. This list contains open source and commercial automated testing solutions.

1.Selenium

Selenium is a browser automation framework. Selenium consists of three main tools.

The first tool, SeleniumIDE, is an extension to Firefox that supports user recording and playback testing. The recording / playback mode has limitations and is not suitable for many users, so the second tool, Selenium WebDriver, provides API for various locales to support more control and write applications that conform to standard software development practices. The last tool, SeleniumGrid, helps engineers use Selenium API to control browser instances distributed across a series of machines, allowing more tests to be run concurrently. Within the project, they are called "IDE", "WebDriver" and "Grid", respectively.

Selenium supports multiple system environments (Windows,Mac,Linux) as well as multiple browsers (Chrome,FireFox,IE and headless browsers (no interface)). Its scripts can be written in a variety of programming languages, such as Java,Groovy,Python,C#,PHP,Ruby and Perl.

Certificate: open source

2.Katalon Studio

Katalon Studio is a very powerful automated testing solution, it is actually built on Selenium and Appium framework, so it can test both Web system and mobile APP applications. (note: the new version also supports testing of interfaces)

This tool can be used by engineers at different programming levels. Those who do not know how to program can also use it to easily start the automation of a project (such as using Object Spy to record and generate test scripts), programmers and senior automation test engineers can also use it to create new libraries and maintain code very quickly, which can help them save a lot of time.

Katalon Studio can be integrated with CI/CD (continuous Integration / continuous release) processes, as well as with tools that are very common in the testing field, such as qTest,JIRA,Jenkins and Git. It also provides a great feature called Katalon Analytics, which can display test reports in a variety of charts, such as metrics, charts, and graphs.

PS: this tool sounds really good and is worth studying.

Certificate: free of charge

3.UFT

Unified Functional Testing (UFT) is a well-known commercial testing tool. (note: QTP before renaming) it can test a lot of applications, such as interface API,Web services, desktop programs, Web systems, mobile APP and so on. This tool has advanced image-based recognition capabilities and can also reuse test components.

UFT uses the Visual Basic script editor to register the test process and object controls. UFT integrates with Mercury Business Process Testing and Mercury Quality Center. It supports CI through integration with CI tools such as Jenkins.

Certificate: business

4.Watir

Watir is an open source web automated testing tool based on the Ruby library. Watir supports cross-browser testing, including Firefox,Opera, headless browsers and IE. It also supports data-driven testing and integration of BBD tools such as RSpec,Cucumber and Test/Unit.

Certificate: open source

5.IBM Rational Functional Tester

IBM RFT is a data-driven testing framework for functional testing as well as regression testing. It can be tested for a wide range of applications, such as. Net, Java, SAP, Flex and Ajax.

RTF supports Visual Basic,. Net and Java as test scripting languages.

RFT can integrate well with IBM's software that manages the entire software lifecycle, such as IBM Rational Team Concert and Rational Quality Manager.

Note: Rational Functional Tester is powerful, easy to set up framework and easy to expand, but it is also high for users. )

Certificate: business

6.TestComplete

TestComplete is a powerful commercial web, mobile and desktop testing tool developed by SmartBear. TestComplete supports various scripting languages such as JavaScript,VB,Python and C++ scripting. Like Katalon Studio, testers can use TestComplete to deploy keyword-driven and data-driven. This tool also provides easy-to-use recording and playback capabilities.

GUI object recognition capabilities like UTF,TestComplete can automatically detect and update UI objects to reduce the effort of maintaining test scripts when the AUT changes. It can also integrate Jenkins into the CI process.

Certificate: business

7.TestPlant eggPlant

An image-based automated functional testing tool that allows testers to interact with AUT like end users. TestPlant eggPlant is completely different from traditional testing tools in modeling the user's view rather than the test script view that testers often see. This allows testers to deploy automated tests visually with only a small amount of programming skills. This tool supports a variety of platforms such as web pages, mobile applications and POS systems. It also provides lab management and CI integration.

Certificate: business

8.Tricentis Tosca

Tricentis Tosca is a model-based test automation tool that provides a wide range of features for continuous testing, including dashboards, analysis, and integration, supporting agile and DevOps methods.

"Tricentis Tosca" helps users optimize the reusability of test assets. Like many other test automation tools, it supports a wide range of technologies and applications, such as web, mobile, and API. Tosca also has the features of integrated management, risk analysis and distributed execution.

Certificate: business

9.Ranorex

Ranorex is a fairly comprehensive commercial automation tool for web, mobile, and desktop testing. The tool has advanced GUI recognition, reusable test scripts, and recording / playback capabilities. Codeless test creation is also a useful feature that allows new automation testers to learn and apply test automation to their projects.

The tool supports Selenium integration for web application testing. Testers can distribute tests across platforms and browsers that use Selenium grid. Ranorex provides a low-cost model for enterprises.

Certificate: business

10.Robot framework

Robot Framework is an open source automation framework that implements keyword-driven methods for acceptance testing and acceptance test-driven development (ATDD). Robot Framework provides a framework for different test automation requirements. But its testing capabilities can be further extended by implementing additional test libraries using Python and Java. Selenium WebDriver is an external library widely used in Robot Framework.

Test engineers can use Robot Framework as an automation framework not only for web testing, but also for Android and iOS test automation. For testers who are familiar with keyword-driven testing, it is easy to learn the robot framework.

Certificate: open source

Summary:

From the above, we can see that Selenium is in the limelight, and Katalon Studio sounds very good, one tool can do all the tests, which is worth studying!

Judging from the scripting languages supported by these tools, Java is undoubtedly the most widely supported language, and it is easier to choose the Java language and try other tools.

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