Most of them are now aware of the importance of automation testing. But as per the current market trend and the fast paced technology changes, new automation tools are getting released to market quite regularly.
While many functional test automation tools are available in market, following tools have made a strong mark facilitating the necessity of test automation across multiple platforms.
1. Selenium
2. Oracle Application Testing Suite ( a.k.a OATS )
3. Quick Test Professional ( a.k.a QTP )
Each of them have become quite popular and shared the automation testing market space.
Selenium had gained greatest value in the area of automation of web based applications as it is open source and is supported with different programming languages.
It has also been back bone for some of the mobile test automation tools.
Oracle Application Testing Suite had gained greatest value in area of automating all Oracle Products like Oracle EBS Applications, JD Edwards,PeopleSoft, Siebel, Cloud Applications and ADF applications.
QTP had gained greatest value in area of automating most of the web based applications, Windows based applications and Oracle Products as well. It has got Add-Ins for almost all the applications, some are free and some are licensed. QTP had been market leader for long time and still continue to be, as it has support to automate wide variety of applications.
We have created a huge list of test automation tools in the Popular Testing Tools Index article, covering the aspects of Test Management, Manual Testing, Automation Testing ( Functional Automation, Load, Security, etc.. ).
We are open to add more tools to the blog and help our readers to learn or gain knowledge. We request you to kindly share your interest about specific test automation tools through the comments and we shall plan to add them as and when possible.