Automation Testing Tools

Automation Testing is making its own way in Software Testing and Quality. IT market is flooded with different tool and technology both for developing as well as testing. 

Just imagine 

• How it would be possible to manually test a Windows Calculator with at least 3 digits as input and verifying the results.
• Load testing of a website for 100 users will require 100 people with 100 systems and a instructor to ask them to do the task at the same time.
• Defects that are so badly fixed that they are making your running modules defective. Finding the new defects will be again a new challenge.
• Also imagine a relaxing tester with a cup of coffee in the middle of release, since the test cases are automatically executed with a record of pass and fail, defect report is generated automatically and the stack holders and managers are getting the reports automatically by email after every interval. Yes of course this level of comfort is achieved with some code/programming knowledge.

Software Testing Tools are nothing but the software for testing another software.

Well talking about the automation testing, there are plenty of tools available in the market which are categorized according to their use. Some of the categories are the following:

1. Functional and Regression Testing Tool: QTP,Selenium, Test Studio, RFT
2. Unit Testing Tool: Junit,Nunit
3. Test Management Tool: QC
4. Performance Testing Tool: Load Runner, Silk Performer, Neoload 
5. Bug Tracking Tool: Bugzilla, Jira

And lot more...

Some of the tools are costly and some tools are open source tools. Also the automation testers are highly paid in the industry.