Top 15 Automation Testing Tools in 2019

Success in any test automation depends on identifying the right tool for the project. With a plethora of open-source and commercial automation tools to choose from, automation Testing tool selection can become tricky. Here is a curated list of best automated tools -

1) mabl

mabl delivers scriptless end-to-end test automation, integrated with your delivery pipeline, so you can focus on improving your app.

Using proprietary machine learning models, mabl automatically identifies and surfaces application issues quickly, so you can:

Fix bugs fast - Robust test output helps you diagnose and fix bugs fast, before they impact your customers.
Ship more code - Tests are automatically repaired when your UI changes so you can spend less time maintaining tests.
Maintain quality - Prevent bad releases with automated regression insights on every build.

2) Ranorex

Over 14,000 users worldwide accelerate testing with Ranorex Studio, an all-in-one tool for test automation. Ranorex is easy for beginners with a codeless click-and-go interface, but powerful for automation experts with a full IDE for C# or VB.NET, and open APIs.

Features:

Functional UI and end-to-end testing on desktop, web, and mobile
Cross-browser testing
SAP, ERP, Delphi and legacy applications.
iOS and Android
Run tests locally or remotely, in parallel or distribute on a Selenium Grid
Robust reporting

Ranorex integrates with leading solutions like Git, TFS, Jenkins, Bamboo, Bugzilla, SpecFlow, NeoLoad, TestRail and more for a complete testing toolchain.

3) TestCraft

TestCraft is a codeless Selenium test automation platform. The revolutionary AI technology and unique visual modeling allows for faster test creation and execution while eliminating test maintenance overhead. Testers create fully automated test scenarios without coding. Customers find bugs faster, release more frequently, integrate with CI/CD and improve overall quality of their digital products.

Key Features:

No programming skills required. Leverage manual testers’ business knowledge and allow them to create automated test scenarios
Substantially reduce maintenance costs. Scripts are automatically adjusted to change due to our AI mechanism. Major changes are adapted with a few clicks
Selenium based. Quickly integrate and leverage modules developed by the community
Provides immediate time to value. Nothing to install (SaaS). Easy to master

4) Squish

Squish is the new GUI Test Automation tool of choice for more than 3000 companies worldwide to automate the functional regression tests and system tests of their graphical user interface (GUIs) and Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs). The Squish GUI testing tool, a 100% cross-platform tool, features

In-depth support for all major GUI technologies
Full support for all desktop, mobile, web and embedded platforms
Test script recording
Powerful and reliable object identification and verifications (object-based and image based)
No dependency on screenshots or visual appearance
Powerful integrated development environment (IDE)
A wide range of popular script languages for test scripting
Full support for Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
Full control via command line tools
Integrations with Test Management and CI-Systems

5) TestCafe Studio

TestCafe Studio is a cross-platform, end-to-end web testing platform. TestCafe Studio allows you to create, run and maintain automated web tests with zero code.

Features include:

Built-in Visual Test Recorder – No code required.
Cross-platform and Cross-browser – run tests on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android and within Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge and IE.
No Additional Tools Required – No need for WebDriver, browser plugins or other testing software.
Auto-generated Element Selectors - TestCafe Studio generates a selector for each page element used in the test, and provides a list of alternative selectors that cover various test scenarios.
Built-in Waiting Mechanism

6) LEAPWORK

LEAPWORK Automation Platform enables you to do test automation without writing code. Test cases are built as flowcharts on a design canvas by putting together powerful building blocks. The blocks include all the commands and logic needed for automating applications. All UI elements and operations are captured and defined with just a few clicks. Anyone can build powerful test cases using the full-featured automation platform features:

Test applications in any operating system, any desktop or mobile device, and any browser version.
Data driven automation
Fast troubleshooting with visual documentation
Enterprise Grade platform with encrypted database storage
Integrates with your CI/CD pipeline
Extensive user support - Live chat with automation engineers, learning center with tutorials and help articles and frequent product releases based on user input.

7) Testim

Testim delivers automated functional testing using artificial intelligence to speed-up the authoring, execution, and maintenance of automated tests.

Seamless Integration with all CI/CD tools and collaboration
Machine Learning Based Self-Maintenance- Say goodbye to flaky tests
Run on different browsers, platforms and mobile
Run the tests on your private cloud, on ours, or on premises
Get 360° on bugs. In addition to annotated screenshot, video, automated tests, step by step screenshots
Reporting on all tests with results as to which fail

8) LambdaTest

LambdaTest is one of the leading cloud based cross browser testing platform which empowers users to perform automated compatibility testing of their website or web applications on a combination of 2000+ real browsers & OS.

Key Features:

Automated Cross Browser Testing on 2000+ real Browsers & OS
One click bug logging with tools like JIRA, Asana, Github, Slack, Monday.com etc.
Integration with various CI/CD tools like Circle CI, Jenkins, Travis CI etc.
Live interactive testing through VM hosted on LambdaTest cloud.
Automated screenshot testing on 25 combinations at a time

9) Zephyr

Zephyr is the #1 selling test management tool, providing end-to-end solutions for agile teams of all sizes. Get the flexibility, visibility, and insights you need to release better software FASTER

Key Features:

1-click Integration with JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Bamboo, and more
Cloud, Server, and Data Center Deployment Options
Advanced Analytics and DevOps Dashboards
No Annual Commitment Required

10) TestArchitect

TestArchitect is a codeless test automation tool that focuses on scaling up automation coverage & productivity by leveraging Keyword Driven Testing. A small number of more-technical testers can support a much larger group of less-technical testers to achieve 80% automation coverage and more with TestArchitect.

Key Features:

Codeless automation that uses Action Based Testing, a modern form of Keyword Driven Testing for high reusability and less maintenance costs.
Intuitive spreadsheet IDE just like Excel
Supported platforms: desktop, cross-browser, mobile testing, API, computer vision testing, etc.
Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, macOS, Androids & iOS
Integration plugins with most of the leading CI/CD/DevOps tools such as Azure DevOps, TFS, Jenkins, etc.

11) Selenium

Selenium is an open-source web automation tool, currently in demand, and widely used tool in the market. It can automate across multiple OS Like Windows, Mac, and Linux and browsers like Firefox, Chrome, IE, as well as Headless Browsers.

Selenium test script can be written in programming languages like Java, C#, Python, Ruby, PHP, Perl and JavaScript. Selenium offers record and playback features with its browser add-on Selenium IDE. The powerful Selenium WebDriver helps you create more complex and advanced automation scripts.

12) HP UFT (aka QTP)

HPE Unified Functional Test is leading cross-platform automation testing tool. It can automate Web, Desktop, SAP, Delphi, Net, ActiveX, Flex, Java, Oracle, Mobile, PeopleSoft, PowerBuilder, Siebel, Stingray, Visual Basic amongst other applications. The list is of development environment it can automate is huge!

UFT uses VBScript as the scripting language.

The tool is tightly integrated with HP ALM (Test Management Tool) and HP LoadRunner (Performance Testing Tool)

Some of the distinguishing features of UFT include Business Process Testing, keyword driven framework, XML support, robust checkpoints, test results.

13) Watir

Watir is an open source web automation testing too.It is pronounced as "water."

Watir supports IE on windows. Watir + WebDriver supports FireFox, Opera, and headless browser HTML Unit.

The scripting language is Ruby, but you can automate web apps developed in any language.

Using Ruby, Watir gives you features to connect with the database, read flat files, excel – important for data-driven testing. You can reusable test code that can be repeated across test scripts.

Integrates with BDD tools like RSpec, Cucumber, etc.

14) IBM Rational Functional Tester

Rational Functional Tester is commercial automation testing tool from IBM. Its supports a wide range of development environments like Siebel, Net, SAP, Java, PowerBuilder, Flex, Dojo amongst others.

It supports 2 scripting language Java and VB.Net

Rational Functional Tester(RFT) integrates tightly with IBM Rational Quality Manager (test management tool).

The tool supports functional testing, regression testing & Data-driven testing.

Storyboard Testing is a unique feature to RFT where the test script is recorded as a series of a screenshot of the actions performed against the Application Under Test. The tester can make changes to the screenshots to enhance the script.

15) Telerik Test Studio

Test Studio is a latest automation tool by Telerik. It supports automating applications like HTML5, Angular, AJAX, JavaScript, Silverlight, WPF, MVC, Ruby and PHP, iOS, Android. Telerik provides cross-browser support and is a record and playback tool.

It supports 2 scripting language C# and VB.Net

Test Studio can connect with source control systems like Team Foundation Server and GIT and execute Continuous Testing.

Telerik allows you to schedule tests, execute testing in parallel and has robust test reporting features.