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Suggestions for choosing an automation QA package?

What QA package offers the widest possible support and is the easiest/fastest to develop for? The qualities I am looking for are:

  • widest support of scripting languages, or which language your preferred package supports
  • capability to test webpages for interaction against forms and user interfaces
  • capability to test data input for qualitative/quantitative analysis against definitions you provide
  • is fastest to write definitions for
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Selenium is currently gaining some popularity and supports several languages (1). In addition, the robot framework makes for a nice way to run selenium and non-selenium based tests.

(1) java, groovy, ruby, C#, perl, PHP, python as of this writing

Bryan Oakley  2009-08-24 14:41:49

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