Manual testing becomes increasingly impractical when a software project grows in size and complexity. Automation testing can significantly improve the standard and quality of the software in place of manual testing, which is labor-intensive, costly, and prone to human mistakes.
In its most basic form, automation testing involves developing scripts that go through test cases and produce results without human intervention.
It’s easy to create automated test scripts with the help of frameworks like Selenium. These scripts can run on various hardware, operating systems, and web browsers. You can run automated tests repeatedly once you develop them, cutting down on manual, monotonous tasks. Thus, developers often use automation testing framework for Regression testing.
As the software testing business expands, organizations have developed many popular automated testing solutions to meet specific needs. This guide covers popular automation testing tools.
Selenium
Selenium is a free, open-source web automation technology widely recognized as a great QA automation solution. With the powerful Selenium WebDriver, you can use this tool to develop complex automation scripts.
Automated browser testing is made possible with Selenium WebDriver, which supports Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and many more. As a bonus, it supports testing the three most popular OSs (Windows, Mac, and Linux). You can write testing scripts using Selenium in various languages, including JavaScript, Python, PHP, Ruby, Java, Perl, and more.
The Selenium add-on for popular browsers allows you to record tests and replay them. Customers that wish to see how their tests are going will find this very helpful.
Appium
Appium is an excellent example of a free, open-source test automation solution for mobile apps. It facilitates communication between the Appium server, the user’s test script, and the emulator or device on which the script runs.
To find selectors in mobile apps, the best way to use Appium is through the Appium Inspector, a graphical user interface tool. Appium also works with cloud-based test management systems like HeadSpin.
Appium allows customers to write test scripts on multiple platforms using the same API, including Android, iOS, and Windows. Appium also allows testing on a wide range of actual devices and simulators.
The automation framework supports numerous programming languages, such as PHP, C#, JavaScript, Java, Python, and Ruby.
Kobiton
Kobiton is an industry standard for testing apps and games on mobile devices. This system provides a scriptless capture feature and the ability to automate tests without the need for scripting. The ability to automatically detect crashes and have them fixed with the help of AI is one of Kobiton’s most appealing features. As a bonus, you can run Kobiton scripts on various platforms.
Kobiton is compatible with popular frameworks like Appium and Selenium, which developers use to write automated test scripts. In addition, you can integrate Kobiton into your CI/CD workflows.Â
Storybook
With Storybook, developers can easily automate test cases to check for UI accessibility and visual regressions. In Storybook, users can build a library of graphical building blocks and then access, modify, and save those blocks. Since this allows users to test individual components in isolation visually, it is quite helpful. Users can also automate visual inspections to prevent accidental changes to components.
By combining Storybook with Percy, the user can unlock its full potential. How therefore do tools like Storybook and Percy facilitate automated visual testing?
Storybook records each component’s unique variation as a picture, serving as the test’s base. Whenever developers make a change, a new snapshot is obtained and compared to the baselines, pixel by pixel. Any time a UI element’s hue, size, or arrangement deviates from the norm, the user is alerted so they can ascertain if the variation is the result of a bug or an intentional update.
When developers make a modification on purpose, Storybook uses the snapshot to revise the baseline. This new baseline image will be a reference point against which developers can evaluate tests—running this program locally after each edit is a major hassle. The visual testing phase begins when the production team pushes new code through their CI/CD pipeline.
Cucumber
Code reviewers can create test cases in natural language using the Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) Testing Framework. For the most part, BDD centers on how a product acts. Among the many accessible open-source BDD testing frameworks, Cucumber is a popular choice.
With the Cucumber framework, developers can write test cases in natural language structures that describe the expected behavior for a given situation, making it ideal for user acceptance testing. Cucumber can run “Gherkin” language automated acceptance tests, which are both human-readable and business-friendly. Developers use Cucumber with frameworks like Selenium and Appium, providing an additional definition layer for the desired behavior.
In Conclusion
Ai testing processes should begin as soon as possible to provide a balance and complement to manual testing. Without automation, thorough testing becomes more difficult, there is an overabundance of mistakes, and it gets more challenging to keep up with ever-tightening deadlines.
It is essential to carefully assess the many available automated testing solutions and to zero in on those that best suit your specific demands and those of your project.
Varsha