Automation Open Source tools

Automation Open Source
Tools

QA Talks #3

Selenium

- is a suit of tools for web browser
automation and it is composed of:

- Selenium IDE
- Selenium 1.0(RC)
- Selenium 2.0(Webdriver)
- Selenium Grid

Selenium IDE Limitation
- for Firefox only
- do not support:
- loops, exception handling
- conditional statement
- re-execution of failed test
- video recording
- reporting functionality
- flash

Watir
- is a Ruby libraries for automating web browsers. It allows
you to write easy to read and maintain tests.

Pros&Cons
Pros Cons
Selenium: Selenium:
- cross browser, OS - doesn't work directly with Flash
- programming languages - IDE for Firfox only
- native IDE - updates
- record and play functionality
- webdriver Watir:
- doesn't work directly with Flash
Watir: - IE only by default (but there is
- easy to understand watir-webdriver)
- rich API - ruby (if you don't learn before)
- Watir(Ruby), Watij(Java),
WatiN(.NET)
- cross browser, OS
- webdriver

FlexMonkey
- is a free tool for used for
testing Flex and Air based
applications

- Record and Playback
- Verifying that ER match AR
- Generating ready-to-run FlexUnit scripts

Meet the Monkeys!

FoneMonkey for
FlexMonkey for testing Android
Flex and AIR applications

Selenium IDE FoneMonkey for
Plugin iOS

Turnkeylinux
45+ ready-to-use free open source solutions

● Specials (LAMP, SVN, Torrent, Domain
Controller, Jabber)
● Content management (Joomla, Drupal,
WordPress)
● Web development (Ruby, Symphony)
● Issue tracking (Redmine,Bugzilla)
● Messaging (Jabber, Mail)
● Database (MySQL, PostgreSQL)

Save your time!

and much more...

TestLink
- is open source web-based test management tool

Redmine
- is a project management & issue tracking tool

Summary

- easy to setup and understand
- easily integrates with other tools (e.g.
Teslink+RedmineTestLink+Bugzilla)
- containes almost all required features
- crossplatform
- plugins
- compare all available tools

Useful links
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/ W3C validator tools
http://www.bugzilla.org/ Bug-tracking system
http://seleniumhq.org/ Selenium web automation
http://code.google.com/p/aost/ Tellurium
http://www.teamst.org/ test management tool
http://watir.com/ Watir web automation
http://watirwebdriver.com watir-webdriver
http://www.gorillalogic.com WebMonkey Flex Automation test tool
http://cacique.mercadolibre.com Web automation test tool
http://www.turnkeylinux.org/all linux based ready-to-use solutions
http://bitnami.org/stacks linux based ready-to-use solutions
http://www.redmine.org project&issue management tool
http://www.opensourcetesting.org/ Open Source Tools
http://qtpselenium.com Selenium training

Automation Open Source Tools
for Windows OS

How to choose the best
software test automation tool?
- What are you trying to accomplish with the
automation tool?
- Define goals of automation
- Is there repeated work in the project?
- Time taken for My current Manual project
testing
- Error rate by Manual testing
- Return on Investment

Main characteristics
- OS compatibility
- Scripting languages
- Documentation
- Capture driven
- Keyword driven
- Code driven
- Object tree
- Control Finder tool

Main characteristics
- Record and Playback
- Video recording
- Test suites
- Portability
- Run from Console
- Continuous Integration systems
- Performance monitoring
- Reporting/Logging

Check-list
- Define the main goals for automation
- Define the main features which you need
- Define the required team's skills
- Choose several suitable tools
- Create prototype using each tool
- Create comparison chart with
characterictics
- Choose more suitable tool for your project

QAliber Test Builder
- Framework for creating tests with no coding skills
- Simply drag and drop Test Cases from repository
- Use loops, conditions and parameters to create
robust scenarios.
- Run automated tasks such as handling windows
and dialogs, I/O, registry, devices and more.
- Log with screenshots, movies, performance
graphs.
- Supported by an open source community

Qaliber plug-in for Visual Studio
QAliber Test Developer is Visual Studio plug-in:
- Write C#/.net code, use the .NET framework capabilities.
- Create test cases as an integral part of your development solution.
- Create GUI / API level test quick!
- Record / Play GUI automation.
- Support .NET forms / WPF / WEB GUI testing.
- Run on all windows platforms with .NET framework 3.0
- An ever growing Open source Common tools repository.

AutoIt
AutoIt v3 is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for
automating the Windows GUI and general scripting.
- Easy to learn BASIC-like syntax
- Manipulate windows and processes, interact with all standard
windows controls
- Scripts can be compiled into standalone executables
- COM support, regular expressions, directly call external DLL and
Windows API functions
- Scriptable RunAs functions
- Detailed helpfile and large community-based support forums

White
Framework for automating rich client applications based
on Win32, WinForms, WPF, Silverlight and SWT (Java)
platforms:

- It is .NET based
- Provides a consistent object-oriented API
- Hiding the complexity of Microsoft's UIAutomation library

Sikuli
Visual technology to automate and test graphical user interfaces
(GUI) using images (screenshots).
- Includes Sikuli Script, a visual scripting API for Jython
- Includes Sikuli IDE, an integrated development environment
for writing visual scripts with screenshots easily.
- Automates anything you see on the screen without internal
API's support.
- You can programmatically control a web page, a
Windows/Linux/Mac OS X desktop application,
- Support iphone or android application running in a simulator or
via VNC.

Comparison chart
AutoIT QAliber White Sikuli

OS compatibility Windows 2000/ HTML (IE), Win32, WinForms, Windows
XP/ 2003/ Vista / WinForms, WPF, WPF, Silverlight Linux
2008/ Windows 7/ Silverlight, Java, and SWT (Java) MacOS
2008 R2 MFC platforms.

Scripting languages Basic-like scripting VB.net/C# .NET Jyton/Python
language

Documentation Help, Manuals, Help, Manuals, Community on Help, Video
Video examples Video Tutorials codeplex.com examples

Capture driven Code-driven Keyword-driven Code-driven Capture-driven
Keyword driven Code-driven
Code driven

Object tree No Yes Yes No

Control Finder tool Yes Yes Yes (UIspy) No

Comparison chart
Record and Yes Yes Yes (record No
Playback classes)

Video recording No Yes No No

Test suites Yes Yes Yes No

Portability Yes Yes Yes No

Run from Console Yes No Yes No

Continuous Yes No Yes No
Integration
systems

Performance No Yes No No
monitoring

Reporting/Logging Yes Yes Yes No

Useful Links
http://qaliber.net/ Qaliber Test Builder, plug-in for MS VS
http://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/ AutoIt
http://white.codeplex.com/ White
http://sikuli.org/ Sikuli
http://www.opensourcetesting.org/ Open Source Tools
http://software-testing.ru/ Software-testing forum
http://www.testingexperience.com/ QA Magazines

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