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Vendor Tools
Tool

Quick Test
Pro

Rational
Functional
Tester

Vendor

HP

IBM

Supported
Browsers
Inter
Functional/regres
sion test tool from net Explorer
Description

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ox
Mercury);
keyword-driven;
includes support ri
for testing Web,
Java, ERP, etc. me

Supported
Systems

Price

Scripting/Program
ming technology

Firef
Safa

Windows

>$10,00
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0

Chro

IBM Rational
Functional Tester
is an automated
functional testing
and regression
testing tool. This
software provides
automated testing
capabilities for
functional,
regression, GUI,
and data-driven
Inter
testing. Rational
net
Explorer
Function Tester
Firef Windows
supports a range
ox
of applications,
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such as web-

$3,020Java
$12,300

based, .Net,
Java, Siebel,
SAP, terminal
emulator-based
applications,
PowerBuilder,
Ajax, Adobe Flex,
Dojo Toolkit, GEF,
Adobe PDF
documents,
zSeries, iSeries,
and pSeries.
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net
Explorer
ar
aggressive
Firef
testing schedule?
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Chro
this automated
me
testing tool,

$4499

VBScript
JScript
DelphiScript
C# Script
C++ Script

designed for
advanced and
novice testers
alike, you can
create, manage
and run tests for
any desktop,
Web or rich client
software. Revel in
the easy-to-use
interface and
script-free testing
combined with a
powerful set of
customization
features.

SilkTest

Squish

Functional test
tool from
Microfocus
(formerly from
Borland, formerly
from Segue) for
Web, Java or
traditional
client/serverbased
applications.
4Test
Features include:
Inter
Microfoc test creation and net Explorer
Java
us
customization,
(requires
silk4j and
Firef
(former test planning and ox
Windows
~$9000 Open Agent)
C# (requires
Borland, management,
Chro
silk4net and Open
Segue) direct database me
Agent)
access and
validation,
recovery system
for unattended
testing, and IDE
for developing,
editing,
compiling,
running, and
debugging
scripts, test
plans, etc.
Inter
Wind 2,300JScript
Froglogi Squish is the
net Explorer ows
c
leading cross12,000
Python
(6.x - 9.x)
Linux
platform/crossPerl
Firef , embedded
technology GUI
Tcl
test automation ox (1.x - 4.x) Linux and
MeeGo

tool for functional

GUI regression
tests. Many
companies in all
kinds of
industries all over
the world use
Squish to
drastically cut
down the time
spent on GUI
testing software
releases while
increasing the
quality of their
applications.

Safa
Unix
ri (Mac OS X
Mac
and iOS)
OS X
Chro
Sever
me
al embedded
a

Ruby

Oper and mobile

platforms

Test Automation
Framework by
Inter
Microsoft
net Explorer
provided as the
Firef
Coded UI Test Microsoft part of Visual
Windows
ox
Studio.
Chro
Accessible for
me
Premium and
Ultimate editions.

$3,000$12,000
(dependi
ng on
C#
Visual
Studio
edition)

Testing Anywhere
is a powerful and
easy to use
automated
software testing
tool that allows
users to
automate any
type of testing.
Powerful GUI
based recording
Testing capabilities and a
TestingAnywh
Anywher no-programming
ere
e
required user
interface allows
testers to quickly
set up even
complex test
cases. A built-in
editor allows
users to build
tests that can be
easily edited to
allow for changes
in the test cases.

$2,500Custom
$7,000

Expl
orer (6.0 &
later)
Firef
ox (2.x &
later)
Oper
a (9.0 &
later)

Windows
Safa

ri (3.0 &
later)
Chro
me (2.x &
later)

Test Studio

Telerik

Test Studio from

Telerik is a pointand-click
software testing
tool that helps
users build indepth automated
web and desktop.
Users can use
smart wizards to
visually highlight
an element and
automatically
generate
verifications,
without the need
for coding. Test
maintenance is
faster using web
element
abstraction
techniques. Can
test HTML5,
AJAX, Silverlight
and WPF apps,
JavaScript calls,
Telerik controls,
dynamic page
synchronization,
client-side
behaviors, UI
virtualizations
and XAML
animations.

Inter
net Explorer
Firef
ox
Safa

Ranorex Ranorex Studio

provides an allon-one
environment for
developing

$2,499

Custom

Windows

~$10,00
Custom
0

ri
Chro
me

Functional test
automation tool
fromSmarteSoft
which provides
quite powerful
SmarteS
SmarteScript
engine for tests
oft
scripting which
minimizes
necessity of
programming
knowledge.
Ranorex
Automation
Framework

Windows

Inter Windows
net Explorer
6.0 and
higher
Firef
ox 3.0 and

3,080

C#
VB.NET

Ranorex test
automation
projects. In
addition to
common IDE
features like a
code editor, code
completion and
debugging.
Ranorex Studio
also integrates all
of the Ranorex
tools and the
powerful Ranorex
Library in one
professional
environment.

higher
Chro
me 12 and
higher
Safa
ri 5.1 and
higher

Open Source tools

Tool/Framework

WatiR

WatiN

WatiJ

Description

Supported
Browsers

Supported Scripting/Programming
Systems
technology

Watir, pronounced water, is

Internet
an open-source (BSD)
Explorer
family of Ruby libraries for
Firefox Windows,
automating web browsers. It
Chrome Unix, Mac Ruby
allows you to write tests that
Opera OS
are easy to read and
Hadless
maintain. It is simple and
(HtmlUnit)
flexible.
Inspired
by Watir development of
WatiN started in December
2005 to make a similar kind
of Web Application Testing
possible for the .Net
Internet
languages. Since then
Explorer
WatiN has grown into an
Windows C#
Firefox
easy to use, feature rich and
stable framework. WatiN is
developed in C# and aims
to bring you an easy way to
automate your tests with
Internet Explorer and
FireFox using .Net.
Internet Windows, Java
Watij (pronounced wattage)
Explorer
stands for Web Application
Unix, Mac
Firefox
Testing in Java. Watij is a
OS
Java API created to allow
Safari
for the automation of web
applications. Inspired by the

simplicity of Watir and

enhanced by the power of
Java, Watij automates
functional testing of web
applications through real
web browsers.

Selenium-RC

Selenium Remote Control

(RC) is a test tool that
allows you to write
automated web application
Internet
UI tests in any programming
Explorer
language against any HTTP
Firefox Windows,
website using any
Java, C#, Ruby, Python,
Chrome Unix, Mac Perl, PHP
mainstream JavaScriptOS
Safari
enabled browser. Since the
Selenium 2.0 version it is
Opera
merged with WebDriver and
at the moment the Selenium
Remote Control is officially
deprecated

WebDriver

WebDriver is designed to
provide a simpler, more
concise programming
interface in addition to
addressing some limitations
in the Selenium-RC API.
Selenium-WebDriver was
Internet
developed to better support Explorer
Windows,
dynamic web pages where
Firefox Unix, Mac Java, C#, Ruby, Python,
elements of a page may
Perl, PHP
Chrome OS
change without the page
Safari
itself being reloaded.
WebDrivers goal is to
supply a well-designed
object-oriented API that
provides improved support
for modern advanced webapp testing problems.

WebRat

Capybara

Webrat lets you quickly write

Internet
Explorer
expressive and robust
acceptance tests for a Ruby
Firefox
web application. Actually, it
Chrome
provides common
Safari
abstraction layer
Opera
on WebDriver and WatiR.
Internet
Capybara helps you test
Explorer
web applications by
simulating how a real user
would interact with your
app. It is agnostic about the

Windows,
Unix, Mac Ruby
OS

Windows, Ruby
Unix, Mac
Firefox OS
Chrome
Safari

driver running your tests

and comes with Rack::Test
and Selenium support built
in. WebKit is supported
through an external gem.
The API looks similar to
the WebRathowever this
project is quite new and
have more recent updates

Opera

HttpUnit

Written in Java, HttpUnit

emulates the relevant
portions of browser
behavior, including form
submission, JavaScript,
basic http authentication,
cookies and automatic page
redirection, and allows Java
test code to examine
Own headless
returned pages either as
browser
text, an XML DOM, or
containers of forms, tables,
and links. When combined
with a framework such as
JUnit, it is fairly easy to write
tests that very quickly verify
the functioning of a web
site.

Windows,
Unix, Mac Java
OS

HtmlUnit

HtmlUnit is a "GUI-Less
browser for Java programs".
It models HTML documents
and provides an API that
allows you to invoke pages,
fill out forms, click links,
Own headless
etc... just like you do in your
browser
"normal" browser. It's more
high-level library
than HttpUnit and operates
with abstractions which are
close to page objects
representation.

Windows,
Unix, Mac Java
OS

Free Java Open Source tool

for automatic functional
testing of web applications.
XML-based test script code
is editable with user's
Canoo WebTest
ANY
preferred XML editor; until
recording capabilities are
added, scripts have to be
developed manually. Can
group tests into a testsuite

ANY

XML

that again can be part of a

bigger testsuite.

CubicTest

ubicTest is a graphical
Eclipse plug-in for writing
Selenium and Watir tests. It
makes web tests faster and N/A
easier to write, and provides
abstractions to make tests
more robust and reusable.

N/A

XML

Fitnesse

The fully integrated

standalone wiki and
acceptance testing
framework

N/A

Wiki pages + Java

background

N/A

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