Software Testing Tools

Software testing tools are required for the betterment of the application or
software.

That's why we have so many tools available in the market where some are
open-source and paid tools.

The significant difference between open-source and the paid tool is that the
open-source tools have limited features, whereas paid tool or commercial
tools have no limitation for the features. The selection of tools depends on
the user's requirements, whether it is paid or free.

The software testing tools can be categorized, depending on the licensing

(paid or commercial, open-source), technology usage, type of testing, and
so on.

The software testing tools can be divided into the following:

● Test management tool

● Bug tracking tool

● Automated testing tool

● Performance testing tool

● Cross-browser testing tool

● Integration testing tool

● Unit testing tool

● Mobile/android testing tool

● GUI testing tool

● Security testing tool

Test management tool

Test management tools are used to keep track of all the testing activity, fast
data analysis, manage manual and automation test cases, various
environments, and plan and maintain manual testing as well.

Bug tracking tool

The defect tracking tool is used to keep track of the bug fixes and ensure
the delivery of a quality product. This tool can help us to find the bugs in the
testing stage so that we can get the defect-free data in the production
server. With the help of these tools, the end-users can allow reporting the
bugs and issues directly on their applications.

Automation testing tool

This type of tool is used to enhance the productivity of the product and
improve the accuracy. We can reduce the time and cost of the application
by writing some test scripts in any programming language.

Performance testing tool

Performance or Load testing tools are used to check the load, stability, and
scalability of the application. When n-number of the users using the
application at the same time, and if the application gets crashed because of
the immense load, to get through this type of issue, we need load testing
tools.

Cross-browser testing tool

This type of tool is used when we need to compare a web application in the
various web browser platforms. It is an important part when we are
developing a project. With the help of these tools, we will ensure the
consistent behavior of the application in multiple devices, browsers, and
platforms.
Integration testing tool

This type of tool is used to test the interface between modules and find the
critical bugs that are happened because of the different modules and
ensuring that all the modules are working as per the client requirements.

Unit testing tool

This testing tool is used to help the programmers to improve their code
quality, and with the help of these tools, they can reduce the time of code
and the overall cost of the software.

Mobile/android testing tool

We can use this type of tool when we are testing any mobile application.
Some of the tools are open-source, and some of the tools are licensed.
Each tool has its functionality and features.

GUI testing tool

GUI testing tool is used to test the User interface of the application because
a proper GUI(graphical user interface) is always useful to grab the user's
attention. These type of tools will help to find the loopholes in the
application's design and makes its better.

Security testing tool

The security testing tool is used to ensure the security of the software and
check for the security leakage. If any security loophole is there, it could be
fixed at the early stage of the product. We need this type of the tool when
the software has encoded the security code which is not accessible by the
unauthorized users.
Top 10 Testing Automation Tools for Software Testing

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.

Selenium proudly supports some of the largest, yet well-known browser

vendors who make sure they have Selenium as a native part of their
browser. Selenium is undoubtedly the base for most of the other software
testing tools in general.

2. TestingWhiz
TestingWhiz is a test automation tool with 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 operate 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

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