Suggest a suitable Automated Testing Tool for my project.

Question

Hi,

We are in search of an automated testing tool for our project. As we are in testing department we prefer a tool which would have less programming in it. Please suggest some tools for us .Till now we are testing our application manually. Our project is being developed in Java. Is there any freeware tool that I could use or is it better to go for a paid tool?

Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

Less programming? You'll need something like JUnit to write unit tests if you want to do serious regression testing, but unit tests require you to write some code

Here's a big list of open-source testing tools, some of them may offer what you want: http://java-source.net/open-source/testing-tools/junit

For example, T2 claims to be a random testing tool. As one, it is fully automatic, but one must keep in mind that the code coverage of random testing is in general very limited. It should be used as a complement to other testing methods. T2 checks for internal errors, run time exceptions, method specifications, and class invariant.

Answer 2

Not sure if you mean a CI tool or not, but we use Hudson at Zappos and it works pretty well.

http://hudson-ci.org/

..and there's also CruiseControl: http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/

If you're not talking about CI, maybe you mean QA testing - in which case you should take a look at something like Selenium (for web apps):

http://seleniumhq.org/

If you're doing GUI testing? I'm not really familiar with that area, but I've heard about WinRunner and Rational:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_WinRunner http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/offerings/quality/

..though neither are really free tools. Something like AutoIT might help you move widgets around, but it lacks the reporting parts:

http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/index.shtml