I hope that reading this article can improve our knowledge and understanding of automated testing.
1. Undoubtedly, Selenium RobotFramework is a popular Web automation testing tool.
Its open source feature is one of the reasons why it is widely used.
You can use different languages to implement various frameworks in Selenium, thus providing more functions for automated testing.
Selenium can support multiple operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux) and multiple browsers (Chrome, Firefox, IE and Headless browsers).
We can use many languages (such as Java, Groovy, Python, C#, PHP, Ruby and Perl) to develop different test scripts.
Selenium has many built-in tools and frameworks that you can enable for continuous testing.
RobotFramework is a common framework used by Selenium for continuous testing.
With Robot, you can run all kinds of automated tests, including tests based on UI elements and API provided by SeleniumWebdriver.
Selenium can be used for both keyword-driven acceptance testing and acceptance test-driven development (ATDD).
By using additional test libraries implemented by Python and Java, its test function has been further expanded.
RobotFramework can be used to test not only Web applications, but also Android and iOS applications.
However, selenium itself cannot meet all the requirements of continuous testing.
It needs to be integrated with a large number of tools to meet different purposes in the software development life cycle (SDLC).
In addition, Selenium also requires users to have advanced programming skills and be willing to spend special time and energy to build an automation framework to meet their specific testing needs.
2.TestsigmaTestsigma is a unified automation platform driven by AI.
It integrates continuous testing into the end-to-end continuous delivery ecosystem by moving left.
Testsigma brings more flexibility to functional and automation teams by reducing the complexity of automated testing technology.
Functional testers can easily use natural language to write simplified code for automated testing.
Testsigma greatly improves the reusability of test code through the combination of reusable steps and centralized ObjectRepository.
At the same time, it greatly reduces the maintenance costs related to testing with AI.
Testsigma can be integrated with various open source or tripartite tools.
Support thousands of different "device+browser+operating system" cloud test environments to meet various dynamic test requirements.
Testsigma can provide all necessary functions for enterprise-level automated testing and continuous testing, including: black-box testing, cross-browser testing, reusable test suite, test plan and data management, email and Slack notification, parallel test execution, centralized object/element repository, comprehensive reporting, integration with CI tools and automated Bug reporting.
As a cloud-based automated testing tool, Testsigma provides various types of application support for Web, mobile Web, Android, iOS applications and RESTful services.
3. IBM Rational Functional Testerft is another tool for functional, API, performance and regression testing.
RationalFunctionalTester uses recording and playback to create automated functional tests, and compares the expected results with the actual results produced by the system during execution.
IBM supports a wide range of applications and can be integrated with tools such as IBMRationalQualityManager.
In addition, IBMRationalTestWorkbench also supports regression testing at API level, user interface level and whole system level, so as to achieve various testing goals in DevOps or continuous delivery life cycle.