Automated Testing Overview

Overview of automation
tools for Web functional testing.
Anton Shishkov
Senior WebQA at Skype

Agenda
Commercial solutions
Freeware solutions
CubicTest
Windmill
Selenium RC
Example based on Selenium RC

Commercial Solutions
IBM: Rational Functional Tester
HP: Mercury Quick Test Pro
Borland: SilkTest

Commercial Solutions: minuses
Price: for enterprise startup (couple of licenses + support) ~ 100 000 EEK
Tools offer lots of useless functionality that make scripting harder.
Execution takes too much RAM and CPU-> big minus if you want to run 30 tests in parallel.

Freeware Solutions: Cubic Test

Freeware Solutions: Cubic Test
Pluses:
+ Intuitive TC descriptions using visual diagrams
+ Selenium based
Minuses:
- Recorder has bugs.

Freeware Solutions: Windmill

Freeware Solutions: Windmill
Pluses:
+ Very good recorder
+ Cross-browser action recorder
Minuses:
- Tests are executed from shell
- No support for HTTPS (but they plan to implement it)

Freeware Solutions: Selenium RC

Freeware Solutions: Selenium RC
Pluses:
+ Nice recorder
+ Multi browser test execution
+ Scripting can be done in many languages:
Python / Java / C# / Ruby ...
Minuses:
- Recorder is only in Firefox

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Automated Testing Overview

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