Test automation is a process of writing a computer program to do testing that would otherwise need to be done manually. Once tests have been automated, they can be run quickly and repeatedly. This is often the most cost effective method for software products that have a long maintenance life, because even minor patches over the lifetime of the application can potentially cause working functionality (at an earlier point in time) to break.
QTPHP-QuickTest Professional software provides functional and regression test automation for software applications and environments. HP QuickTest Professional supports keyword and scripting interfaces and features a graphical user interface. Its features are: a cascaded optimization system, the industry's deepest and broadest insight into IT-controlled assets, and a secure, comprehensive, operational environment for a hybrid world, enhanced expert view, business process testing, screen recorder etc.
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Watir
Watir, pronounced water, is an open-source (BSD) family of ruby libraries for automating web browsers. It allows you to write tests that are easy to read and maintain. It is simple and flexible. It clicks links, fills in forms, and presses buttons. Watir also checks results, such as whether expected text appears on the page. Its features are: to connect to databases, read data files and spreadsheets, export XML, and structure your code as reusable libraries etc.
TOSCA Testsuite
TOSCA Testsuite is a software tool for the automated execution of functional and regression software testing. In addition to test automation functions, it includes integrated test management, a graphical user interface (GUI), a command line interface (CLI) and an application programming interface (API), generation of dynamic, synthetic test data, highly automated business dynamic steering of test case generation and the unified handling and executing of manual and automated as well as GUI and non-GUI tests etc.
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