Automation Testing

Testing is nothing but verifying something with what we have. If our expectation is matched with actual thing then consider as our Testing is done with passed results.

Conventionally we do this with manually, that is also known as Manual Testing. But if we use any tool to do the same then that will be called as Automation Testing.

In order to do testing with any automation tool, first we need to consider/think about below points.

1. What kind of testing we have to do (Functional/UI /Performance/Security/Middle layer/DB/ Virtual..etc)
2. Which tool is better to choose
3. what is our budget and timelines
4. do we have skilled colleagues for that
5. dependent interfaces
6. feasibility to automate
7.ROI (Return of Investment)

Choosing the best tool plays vital role here. We give an importance and respect to people who have lot of memory, capability and efficiency, in the similar passion we need to consider those points to find out any tool. Because automation testing is nothing but having memory and capable to recognize objects and execute scripts efficiently.

We have lot of tools available for automation testing. Below are a name few.

Functional Test Automation tools:

Licensed tools:
HP UFT/QTP
IBM RFT
Test Partner
Silk Test
Oracle Application Testing Suite
TOSCA Test Suite

SAP Functional Testing tools:
ECAT (form sap, only for testing sap app)
Worksoft Certify
SAP TAO (Addin for HP ALM-QTP to create SAP scripted components with BPT framework)

Open Source Tools:
Selenium
Watir
Gemilian

Load testing tools:
HP Load runner (from HP),
Silk performer (from seague)
Rational performance tester (from rational)
Wapt (web application test, from Softlogica)

Test management tools: 
HP ALM/Quality center
QA Center (from Compuware)
Rational Clear Quest (form IBM)
Bugzilla Test Runner
Salome-TMF
RTH (Open sourse)

Security Testing Tools:
AppScan ( from IBM)
HP fortiry

Service Virtualization tools:
CA LISA Service Virtualization
IBM GreenHat Integration Tester
HP Service Virtualization
Parasoft Service Virtualization.

Web Service Testing tools:
soapUI
SOATest
HP UFT