BEST Automation Testing Tools

Success in any test automation depends on identifying the right tool for the project. With a plethora of open-source and commercial automation tools to choose from, automation testing tool selection can become tricky

ACCELQ:

ACCELQ is an AI-powered Codeless Test Automation platform on the cloud that seamlessly automates Web UI, API, Mobile, and Desktop. ACCELQ customers are Fortune 500 enterprises across industry verticals globally, and they have adopted ACCELQ to accelerate their automation objectives significantly. ACCELQ is proven to speed up automation development by 3 times and bring down the maintenance by 70% that translates to over 50% of cost savings and enables alignment with Continuous Delivery.

Key Features:

· Business process, Automated, Visual

· Codeless, No vendor lock, Built-in framework

· Any browser & OS, cloud-based, actionable reporting

· Visual test, comprehensive taxonomy, requirement mapping

· In-sprint automation, Web-Mobile-API & Desktop, Plug & Play

· All-inclusive subscription, unlimited agents, 50% savings

ROBOT FRAME WORK:

Robot Framework is an open source test automation framework for acceptance testing and acceptance test-driven development. It follows different test case styles − keyword-driven, behaviour-driven and data-driven for writing test cases. Robot Framework provides support for external libraries, tools which are open source and can be used for automation. The most popular library used is Selenium Library used for web development & UI testing.

Test cases are written using keyword style in a tabular format. You can use any text editor or Robot Integrated Development Environment (RIDE) for writing test cases.

Robot framework works fine on all the Operating Systems available. The framework is built on Python and runs on Jython (JVM) and IronPython (.NET).

Robot Framework Features

In this section, we will look at the different features offered by Robot.

Tabular format for test cases

Robot framework comes with a simple tabular format where the test cases are written using keywords. It is easy for a new developer to understand and write test cases.

Keywords

Robot framework comes with built-in keywords available with robot framework, keywords available from the libraries like Selenium Library (open browser, close browser, maximize browser, etc.). We can also create user-defined keywords, which are a combination of other user-defined keywords or built-in or library keywords. We can also pass arguments to those keywords, which make the user-defined keywords like functions that can be reused.

Variables

Robot framework supports variables – scalar, list and dict. Variables in robot framework are easy to use and are of great help while writing complex test cases.

Libraries

Robot framework has support for a lot of external libraries like Selenium Library, Database Library, FTP Library and http library. Selenium Library is mostly used as it helps to interact with the browsers and helps with web application and UI testing. Robot framework also has its own built-in libraries for strings, date, numbers etc.

Resources

Robot framework also allows the import of robot files with keywords externally to be used with test cases. Resources are very easy to use and are of great help when we need to use some keywords already written for other test projects.

Data driven test cases

Robot framework supports keyword driven style test cases and data driven style. Data driven works with high-level keyword used as a template to the test suite and the test cases are used to share data with the high-level keyword defined in the template. It makes the work very easy for testing UI with different inputs.

Test Case Tagging

Robot framework allows to tag test-cases so that we can either run the tags test-cases or skip the tagged testcases. Tagging helps when we want to run only a group of test cases or skip them.

Reports and Logs

Robot framework provides all the details of test suite, test case execution in the form of report and logs. All the execution details of the test case are available in the log file. The details like whether the test case has failed or passed, time taken for execution, steps followed to run the test case are provided.

RIDE

This editor available with Robot framework helps in writing and running test cases. The editor is very easy to install and use. RIDE makes life easy for writing test cases by providing framework specific code completion, syntax highlighting, etc. Creation of project, test suite, test case, keywords, variables, importing library, executing, tagging the test case is easily done in the editor. Robot framework also provides plugins for eclipse, sublime, Textmate, Pycharm that has support for robot test cases.

Robot Framework Advantages

Robot framework is open source, so anyone who wants to try out can easily do so.

· It is very easy to install and helps in creating and executing test cases. Any new comer can easily understand and does not need any high level knowledge of testing to get started with robot framework.

· It supports keyword-driven, behaviour-driven and data-driven style of writing test cases.

· It is a good support for external libraries. Most used is Selenium Library, which is easy to install and use in robot framework.

Robot Framework Limitations

Robot lacks support for if-else, nested loops, which are required when the code gets complex.

WHY CHANGE

Companies rely on modern, enterprise grade applications for greater business performance. If applications for mission critical processes operate sub-par, it could cost organizations in the millions of dollars.

WHY NOW

A big challenge in application testing is the speed and effectiveness of quality assurance. Application testing requires people to repeatedly test applications to ensure quality. Each time an application undergoes a change, a person has to repeatedly test the application. Manual testing is costly, time consuming, and fraught with errors.

While automation is the likely answer, current test automation products are tedious and require coding – leaving you with the extra work.

SOLUTION

Enter Avo Assure, designed to provide software quality and enable continuous testing of applications and digital assistants without writing code. With Avo Assure, users can automatically create and deploy test cases at no additional cost.

Avo Assure is highly intelligent and technology agnostic, taking application testing beyond current tools.

BENEFITS

· Achieve up to 90% test automation coverage and save over 30% of your automation effort to focus on more innovative tasks

· Test applications 85% faster than manual testing and double your application releases

· Achieve upwards of 2x productivity with seamless and heterogenous cross-platform testing

· Enhance productivity by testing applications at a faster pace and reusing test cases

· Create end-to-end tests without writing a single line of code and run those tests repeatedly with minimal time and effort to ensure maximum coverage

WITH AVO ASSURE YOU CAN

· Instantly create and execute test cases across platforms without writing code

· Automatically generate test cases by leveraging Avo Discover to document steps first

· Work within a visual test environment that shows you where you are, making the management of test plans and scenarios fun and simple without writing code

· Quickly update and upgrade test scenarios to expand coverage without starting over

· Eliminate errors as you change and update applications over time

· Analyze reports intuitively because Avo Assure shares the embedded video of execution and screenshots of each step

· Choose from 30 default widgets in the advanced dashboard to visualize reports effectively or customize as per your needs

TECHNICAL CAPABILITY

· Browser-based administration and heterogenous screen capture

· Scripless test case creation – requires no coding!

· With a single click of a button, enable accessibility testing for your applications. Avo Assure supports WCAG standards, Section 508, and ARIA

· Execute multiple scenarios in a single VM independently or parallelly through the smart scheduling and execution feature

Design & Orchestration

· Visual test design

· Native client & image based object identification

· Pre-built keywords simplify test case creation

· Shared object & test repository

· Test data input automation

· Debug and reporting support

Client Platform

· Support

· Web-based

· Mobile – Android, iOS

· Desktop

· SAP – ECC & S4/HANA

· Oracle – EBS mainframe via emulation

· API – web services

· Databases

Integration Support

· CI – CD integration

· Jira

· Microfocus – QC/ALM

· Q-test

· TFS

· Atlassian Bamboo

· Amazon Mobile Farm

· Sauce Labs

· Salesforce

· Linux

CASE STUDY

1. One of the leading financial institutions in the US, offering banking and mortgage services upgraded its loan management system without impacting the customer experience using Avo Assure. With Avo Assure, the bank achieved 100% automation of its loan processing application within 2 months, enabling execution of 4000+ test cases every day over the course of migration. It also reduced the post-migration testing time by 96%.

2. A large US commercial property and casualty insurer transitioned to an agile and product-centric development approach leveraging Avo Assure. 10x improvement in the automation rate helped achieve this significant milestone. With Avo Assure enabling continuous testing, the applications were made DevOps ready, reducing post migration testing time over 90%.

3. A large fortune 500 manufacturing company rapidly delivered its post-sale support service portal and generated 8% revenues using Avo Assure. It was also able to reduce manual efforts by 30% and overall project cost by 25%.

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