{"id":11350,"date":"2019-07-11T14:33:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T14:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/?p=11350"},"modified":"2025-05-05T21:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T21:23:17","slug":"12-top-test-automation-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/test-automation\/12-top-test-automation-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Top Test Automation Tools to Try in Your Next Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether you are just looking to start test automation as a part of your software quality engineering efforts or you are a seasoned test automation engineer, this list comprises tools for all experience levels. With a good plan in place, any of these tools for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.softwaretesttips.com\/automation-testing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">software test automation<\/a> can help to increase the quality of your product, detect errors earlier, decrease testing time, increase test coverage, and facilitate regression testing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we explained in a recent post, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/test-automation\/when-to-automate-a-test\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When to Automate a Test?<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the best test cases to automate with these tools are those that cover frequently used functionalities, relatively stable functionalities in the graphic interface, functionalities with a relatively high error density index, and high priority, business-critical functionalities. It&#8217;s also a good practice to follow the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/test-automation\/best-testing-practices-agile-teams-automation-pyramid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">test automation pyramid<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0to prioritize which tests to automate at which levels.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s an overview of some of the top test automation tools on the market:<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1_Applitools\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #00b674;\">1. Applitools\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11360\" src=\"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/applitools-and-perfecto-221-min-300x83.png\" alt=\"applitools-and-perfecto-221-min\" width=\"350\" height=\"97\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/applitools.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Applitools<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> provides an end-to-end software testing platform powered by Visual AI. It can be used by people in engineering, test automation, manual testing, DevOps,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Digital Transformation teams. Applitools finds visual bugs in your apps, making sure that no visual elements are overlapping, invisible, or off page. It also makes sure that no new, unexpected elements have appeared.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Key_Features\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Key Features<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supports all major test automation frameworks and programming languages covering web, mobile, and desktop apps<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Automatically validates the look and feel and user experience of your apps and sites.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Designed to integrate with your existing tests rather than requiring you to create new tests or learn a new test automation language<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By emulating the human eye and brain, the AI-powered image comparison technology only reports differences that are perceptible to users and reliably ignores invisible rendering, size and position differences<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Resolves thousands of differences in minutes by leveraging sophisticated algorithms that automatically analyze the differences detected across all your tests and generate a concise report showing only distinct ones.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uses a single baseline of your app running on a reference device or browser to validate its layout on other devices and browsers<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are developing features in feature branches and would like to push an up-to-date baseline along with your code, or if you are maintaining multiple versions of your app in parallel, baseline branching allows you to keep a separate test baseline for each branch<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pricing\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Pricing<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Contact the vendor for pricing information.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Makes_it_Unique\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">What Makes it Unique?<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visual UI test reports allow you to have screenshots and visual differences that everyone in your team can understand at a glance<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allows you to collaborate with your team, exchange thoughts and provide feedback about the UI of your app directly from screenshots available in your visual UI test execution reports<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allows you to add visual assertions to your existing tests in any automation framework and programming language<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allows you to easily create multiple teams and assign full or read-only access rights to members<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allows you to choose between using the multi-tenant US-based public cloud and a private cloud dedicated just for your company with enhanced security restrictions and your own identity provider or SSO server<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2_Cucumber\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #00b674;\">2. Cucumber<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.cucumber.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11361\" src=\"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/static1.squarespace-min-300x105.png\" alt=\"static1.squarespace-min\" width=\"350\" height=\"122\" \/>Cucumber<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a tool that supports <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/software-development\/what-is-bdd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It reads executable specifications written in plain text\u00a0and validates that the software does what those specifications say. The specifications consists of multiple examples or scenarios. Each scenario is a list of steps written in Gherkin for Cucumber to work through. Cucumber verifies that the software conforms with the specification and generates a report indicating success or failure for each scenario.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In\u00a0this\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/agile-testing\/a-guide-to-good-cucumber-practices\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, you can learn how to use Cucumber as a part of your Behavior Driven Development Strategy and find more resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Key_Features-2\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Key Features<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supports other languages as well beyond Ruby like Java, JavaScript and Kotlin<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allows scripting, abstraction and component reuse on several levels, allowing both technical and non-technical users to efficiently describe specifications and tests<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Integrated with all the most popular web testing libraries<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Files are plain-text, which makes it very simple to edit them but does not allow any clever formatting<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supports writing specifications in about 40 spoken languages, making it easy for teams outside of English-speaking territories or those working on internationally targeted software<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pricing-2\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Pricing<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Free\/Open source<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Makes_it_Unique-2\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">What Makes it Unique?<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allows the test step definition to be written without knowledge of any code, allowing the involvement of non-programmers as well<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Serves the purpose of an end-to-end testing framework<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to simple test script architecture, Cucumber provides code reusability<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"3_Ghost_Inspector\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #00b674;\">3. Ghost Inspector<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ghostinspector.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11362\" src=\"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/zPFOIZRzRyq3NEXAExsJ-min-300x47.png\" alt=\"ghost inspector logo top automation tools\" width=\"350\" height=\"55\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ghostinspector.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ghost Inspector<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is an automated UI testing tool. The creators describe it as \u201cscriptless\u201d meaning that there is no need to know how to program. The interesting thing is that not only is the execution in the Cloud, but you use the tool entirely through a browser. There is no IDE or client in which to design the tests. You simply install a plugin to \u201crecord\u201d the actions of the test case, and the rest is all on the web.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It allows you to record yourself performing actions on your website within your browser, then sync them to the Ghost Inspector service and run them continuously as a regression test. You can record them on your staging server and execute them through Ghost Inspector API when your code changes\u2014or record them on your live site and automatically run them at a set interval to continuously check for issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/tools\/automatic-checks-scriptless-tool-ghost-inspector\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we share some of our observations about this script-less automation tool, such as its main features, advantages and limitations.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Key_Features-3\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Key Features<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Test recorder and code-less editor<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Video and screenshot comparison<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Multiple browsers and screen sizes<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0API and third party integrations<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Advanced test scheduling<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Parallel testing by default<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pricing-3\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Pricing<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Small: $71\/mo*<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Medium: $179\/mo*<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Large: $359\/mo*<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enterprise: Need to contact the vendor to request pricing information<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>**Annual Pricing<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Makes_it_Unique-3\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">What Makes it Unique?<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allows you to record and then test a particular workflow on your key websites, to ensure they are running as expected. These results can then be emailed to your team to ensure any issues are resolved quickly.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Custom notifications: Get detailed email, Slack, or PagerDuty notifications when a test fails. View and compare screenshots for test results and full videos of each step executed.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"4_GXtest\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #00b674;\">4. GXtest<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genexus.com\/en\/global\/products\/gxtest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11363 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Gxtest_logo-min-300x109.png\" alt=\"gxtest logo top test automation tools\" width=\"300\" height=\"109\" \/>GXtest<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a suite of products for functional test automation that enables users without formal programming skills to design, automate, and run functional tests over web and mobile applications developed using Genexus. GXtest allows for full regression, acceptance, integration and system testing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We may be a bit biased, as <a href=\"https:\/\/abstracta.us\/insights\/resource\/GeneXus_Test_Automation_Success_Story_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abstracta built this tool<\/a>, but if you are using GeneXus to build your software applications, testing them with GXtest is a must. The latest version of GXtest allows you to catch bugs earlier and reduce cycle times by running tests automatically in your pipeline, achieving CI\/CD. GXtest allows you to easily test different components of your app from batch processes to user interfaces.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Key_Features-4\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Key Features<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Debug your tests in IDE and maximize code coverage with Unit, Component, Integration (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UI tests run on top of the WebDriver protocol, which means that you can provision your browsers on-premises (with Selenium) or use popular cloud testing platforms.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tests written are part of your knowledge base which allows testing to be up-to-date with development versions.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pricing-4\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Pricing<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Contact the vendor for pricing information.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Makes_it_Unique-4\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">What Makes it Unique?<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GXtest is the only test automation tool created specifically to test GeneXus applications<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use GeneXus IDE to automatically create tests based on your model. Find bugs quickly and share your test assets in GXServer.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All tests are designed to run unattended over any Continuous Integration server like Jenkins<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gather real evidence of what was actually tested in each production stage of your application<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"5_Katalon_Studio\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #00b674;\">5. Katalon Studio<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toolsqa.com\/katalon-studio-tutorial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11364 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Katalon_Studio_logo-min-300x88.png\" alt=\"katalon studio logo top test automation tools\" width=\"300\" height=\"88\" \/><\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katalon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Katalon Studio<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a test automation solution that leverages Selenium\u2019s core engine. Although it uses much of Selenium\u2019s functionality, it\u2019s not simply a Selenium wrapper. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katalon.com\/resources-center\/blog\/katalon-studio-vs-selenium-based-open-source-frameworks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> offers a detailed comparison of Katalon and Selenium-based open-source frameworks, focusing on key features such as target users, deployment, test management and scripting language support, performance, usability, and integration with other tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Key_Features-5\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Key Features<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Provides project templates for organizing test cases, object repositories and keywords<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fully supports Web, Android, iOS applications, and API testing on all operating systems<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Easy to integrate with Jenkins, Git, JIRA and qTest with native plugins<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Record actions on Web and mobile apps to generate scripts with hundreds of built-in keywords<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Easily build advanced scripts with IDE or customize steps with our tabular interface.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Useful built-in object spy, code completion, in-context reference, and refactoring capabilities make scripting more enjoyable<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Run and debug test cases or test suites using multiple configurations and datasets.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Run tests at any step on multiple browsers and devices, locally or with cloud services.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CLI and command line generator enable CI\/CD and DevOps practices.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Customizable post-execution workflow to notify, submit bugs and process execution results<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ready-made dashboards, metrics, and execution coverage to improve automation strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pricing-5\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Pricing<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Free<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Makes_it_Unique-5\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">What Makes it Unique?<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Automatically update all associated test cases and test suites when test objects are changed<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Import external libraries to improve the automation functions beyond Selenium and Appium limits<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Easy management and maintenance of tests, data, and keywords<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"6_mabl\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #00b674;\">6.\u00a0mabl<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11365\" src=\"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mabl_logo_horizantal_light-min-300x95.png\" alt=\"mabl test automation tool logo\" width=\"350\" height=\"111\" \/>A member of the newer generation of test automation tools, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mabl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mabl<\/a> harnesses AI and machine learning for scriptless cross-browser testing, auto-healing tests, visual testing, and diagnostics\u00a0 all in one solution. Mabl wants to assist testing in DevOps by allowing you to test every release at scale with no infrastructure to manage. To create tests you simply Download and install the mabl Chrome extension to record tests for your user journeys without any scripting. You can create your tests once and run them anywhere (on multiple browsers and environments) and schedule them out. Throughout, its machine-learning algorithms improve test execution and defect detection. You get to see the results of each test in a report with screenshots, logs, and visual changes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This tool also helps you overcome the challenges that many users of Selenium face with brittle element indicators, thus making its tests more robust and less time intensive to create and maintain. According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joecolantonio.com\/mabl-ai-machine-learning-test-automation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joe Colantonio<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cMabl takes a different approach in that it has a smarter way of referring to front-end elements in your test automation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Key_Features-6\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Key Features<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Easy set up: With mabl, creating robust automated tests is code-less and script-less, with testing infrastructure fully managed in the cloud<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Auto-healing: The auto-healing aspect adapts to UI changes without intervention resulting in no more flaky tests<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comprehensive test output: Get all the information you need and easily share between testers and developers<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visual application testing for catching any unexpected changes in your application UI<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Performance regression testing: mabl tracks the perceived speed index for every step of every test so you know when there are performance regressions<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cross browser testing: The only SaaS service with native support for Chrome, Firefox, IE, and Safari. All without leveraging any 3rd party test-cloud beyond mabl<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Data driven testing: Load external data into your tests to run multiple test cases in one plan<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All test permutations run in parallel, so executing every test case takes only as long as one test<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fully managed and secure: mabl includes security measures backed by Google, Stripe, and Auth0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several integrations including Jenkins, Jira, Slack, Bamboo, Azure DevOps, and Webhooks<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pricing-6\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Pricing<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mabl offers three pricing plans depending on your needs from startup to enterprise<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Makes_it_Unique-6\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">What Makes it Unique?<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mabl also provides what they call \u201cinsights\u201d which are behaviors in your application that Mabl flags as an area of interest that might be important for a devs and testers to investigate. These insights help make it easier to troubleshoot any failing tests.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mabl uses an analysis pipeline to analyze your application behavior over time. With all the data it collects, the AI can improve your tests for the future.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"7_Ranorex\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #00b674;\">7.\u00a0Ranorex<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ranorex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11366\" src=\"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Ranorex-min-300x88.png\" alt=\"ranorex test automation tool logo\" width=\"350\" height=\"103\" \/>Ranorex Studio<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> empowers testers with a complete toolset for end-to-end testing of desktop, web and mobile applications in a single license. Automate tests on a Windows desktop, and then execute them locally or remotely, on real iOS or Android mobile devices or on simulators\/emulators. Run tests in parallel and accelerate cross-browser testing for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Microsoft Edge, and more. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Key_Features-7\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Key Features<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Robust object identification: Analyze your AUT with Ranorex Spy, identify elements with RanoreXPath and maintain them in the object repository.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Action editor and recorder: Effortlessly create test automation projects without coding.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Code editor: Create flexible test automation scripts using standard programming languages.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One-stop shop for test organization: Define and manage test scenarios in the test suite.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Web and mobile test command center: Centrally create, configure and manage web and mobile endpoints and environments.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pricing-7\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Pricing<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Premium Node Locked &#8211; $2,990\/perpetual license<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Premium Floating &#8211; $4,990\/perpetual license<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Premium Floating with Enterprise support &#8211; $6,490\/perpetual license<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Runtime Floating &#8211; $890\/perpetual license<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Makes_it_Unique-7\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">What Makes it Unique?<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Set up Ranorex Agents on remote machines to deploy multiple Ranorex tests for remote execution in different environments, using different system configurations and operating systems<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Offers dark and light themes, for when you want to give your eyes a rest\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allows you to easily analyze test runs with an XML-based test run report that provides a comprehensive overview of the entire test execution flow<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"8_Selenium_Webdriver\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #00b674;\">8.\u00a0Selenium Webdriver<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11367 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/selenium-min-300x237.png\" alt=\"selenium logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Part of the Selenium Suite, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seleniumhq.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Selenium WebDriver<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a powerful tool to do web-based automation. It enables you to use a programming language to write test scripts in different programming languages like Java, .NET , Perl, Ruby and enables you to use conditional operations, looping and other programming concepts, making your test script robust. Selenium-WebDriver was developed to better support dynamic web pages where elements of a page may change without the page itself being reloaded. WebDriver\u2019s goal is to supply a well-designed, object-oriented API that provides improved support for modern advanced web-app testing problems.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Key_Features-8\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Key Features<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Test scripts can be written in any of these programming languages: Java, Python, C#, PHP, Ruby, Perl &amp; .Net<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tests can be carried out in any of these OS: Windows, Mac, or Linux<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tests can be carried out using any browser: Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari or Opera<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Integrates with tools such as TestNG &amp; JUnit for managing test cases and generating reports<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Integrates with Maven, Jenkins &amp; Docker to achieve continuous testing<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pricing-8\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Pricing<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Free\/Open Source<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Makes_it_Unique-8\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">What Makes it Unique?<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even without technical experience, it\u2019s possible to create test suites and validations using the recording tool<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can be integrated with almost any software development tool<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Selenium community is extremely helpful and, even for beginners, there are answers available for most questions and challenges that may come up<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"9_Sauce_Labs\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #00b674;\">9.\u00a0Sauce Labs<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saucelabs.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11369\" src=\"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1_-SqfDyxvQAhYhagkVTxJEg-min-300x150.png\" alt=\"sauce labs top test automation tools\" width=\"350\" height=\"175\" \/>Sauce Labs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> allows users to run tests in the cloud on more than 800 different browser platforms, operating system and device combinations, providing a comprehensive test infrastructure for automated and manual testing of desktop and mobile applications using Selenium, Appium and JavaScript unit testing frameworks.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Key_Features-9\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Key Features<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Web functional testing<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cross browser testing<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mobile web testing<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JS unit testing<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manual testing<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Automated testing platform<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comprehensive platform coverage<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Real device coverage<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pricing-9\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Pricing<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From $19\/month for its Live Plan to $600\/month for its Unlimited Automated Plan<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Makes_it_Unique-9\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">What Makes it Unique?<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sauce Labs creators co-developed Selenium and are a major contributor to Appium with support for the latest versions so you can easily make the switch from running tests on your in-house grid to Sauce<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sauce Labs was the first to develop a cloud-based continuous testing platform\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Offers valuable and powerful cloud-based capabilities for testing mobile and web applications<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"10_TestComplete\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #00b674;\">10. TestComplete<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/smartbear.com\/product\/testcomplete\/overview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11370\" src=\"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/TestComplete-Color-Horizontal-version_Logo-min-300x61.png\" alt=\"testcomplete test automation tool\" width=\"350\" height=\"72\" \/>TestComplete<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0by SmartBear is an automated testing environment for a wide range of application types and technologies, including (but not limited to) Windows, .NET, WPF, Visual C++, Visual Basic, Delphi, C++Builder, Java and Web applications and services. TestComplete is oriented equally to functional and unit testing. It provides superior support for daily regression testing and supports many other kinds of testing: data-driven testing, distributed testing, and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Key_Features-10\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Key Features<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Build automated UI tests: Use the script-less record and replay or keyword-driven tests to easily create automated UI tests<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Object recognition engine now with artificial intelligence: Save time creating and maintaining tests by accurately identifying dynamic UI elements with both property-based and AI-powered visual recognition<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HTML5 test automation: Write one automated test script to test HTML\/HTML5 web applications across all of the latest releases of Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera or deprecated versions of Internet Explorer (IE)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Data-driven testing: Separate data from test commands to ease maintenance efforts<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Automated test reporting &amp; analysis<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Get real-time information on the progress and status of your desktop, web, or mobile UI tests from a single interface<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Selenium &amp; TestComplete: Scale your Selenium WebDriver tests to boost your web testing efforts and build the ultimate test automation solution that has Selenium, Unit, and functional tests all in one tool<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keyword-driven testing: Easily separate test steps, objects, actions, and data with a built-in keyword driven testing framework<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pricing-10\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Pricing<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Floating Pro Bundle:\u00a0 $7,000\/perpetual license<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Floating Customized: $9,793\/perpetual license<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Makes_it_Unique-10\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">What Makes it Unique?<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quickly increase productivity with a robust test automation framework that allows you to reuse your automated UI tests across projects and environments to expand test coverage, save time, and cut costs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From initial roll-out of the tool to day-to-day support, there is a responsive team always available to help you.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"11_Testim\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #00b674;\">11. Testim<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.testim.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11371\" src=\"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/testim_io_logo-min-300x150.png\" alt=\"testim top test automation tools\" width=\"350\" height=\"175\" \/>Testim<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an end-to-end agile testing automation solution which utilizes machine learning for test authoring, execution, and maintenance. Users can create tests in minutes, run thousands of tests in parallel across different browsers, integrate with their existing CI\/CD and collaboration tools, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With Testim, users can create tests either by recording or by code, or utilize both in any combination. Test steps can be reused for any other tests users may be running. Thousands of parameters are analyzed for each element, with Testim weighing their overall reliability before ranking them accordingly. Tests can be run with different data sets and conditions, and full customization capabilities are offered, allowing users to run tests on different browsers, operating systems, starting URLs, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/test-automation\/embracing-ai-based-testing-new-era\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">guest post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Testim.io Developer Evangelist, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/epsilon11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raj Subramanian<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, explains how Artificial Intelligence can enhance software testing and the tester\u2019s role in AI-based testing.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Key_Features-11\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Key Features<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Analyzes thousands of parameters for each element, weighing their overall reliability, and ranking them accordingly<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Data driven testing: Run your tests with different data sets<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Run your tests with full customization capabilities: Browser, OS, Starting URL, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visual Validation: One screenshot is worth a 1000 validations &#8211; check pixels, fonts, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Detailed step-by-step capture on scenario bugs: Video, automated test, step-by-step screenshots<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quick mark-ups: Easily add annotations to highlight what&#8217;s wrong<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Easily integrate with your bug tracker: Publish your bug as you work directly to your Jira project, or any other supported tracker<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get detailed test results, achieve continuous delivery with zero setup<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Run in Parallel: Run thousands of tests on multiple browsers and get results in minutes<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Run Securely: Testim uses advanced tunnel encryption technology so you can rest assured connecting to its cloud<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pricing-11\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Pricing<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basic &#8211; Free<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pro &#8211; Contact the vendor<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Makes_it_Unique-11\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">What Makes it Unique?<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Testim introduced the concept of dynamic locators instead of static IDs<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The AI underneath the platform analyzes all the DOM objects of a page and extracts the objects and its properties in real time, leading to more stable tests than before<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tests can be authored without writing a single line of code and it has the flexibility for those who are familiar with code to author personal enhancements to the existing Testim functionality<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Customer support is always active and addresses any issues very quickly<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"12_Watir\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #00b674;\">12.\u00a0Watir<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/watir.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11372\" src=\"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Watir_logo-min-300x119.png\" alt=\"watir logo test automation tool\" width=\"300\" height=\"119\" \/>Watir<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 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. Watir drives browsers the same way people do: it clicks links, fills in forms, presses buttons, etc. Watir also checks results, such as whether expected text appears on the page. It\u2019s a family of Ruby libraries but supports your app no matter what technology it is developed in. Whilst Watir supports only Internet Explorer on Windows, Watir-WebDriver supports Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and also running in headless mode (HTMLUnit).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/tools\/selenium-vs-watir\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Federico Toledo make a detailed comparison chart between Selenium and Watir to help us choose the best automation framework.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Key_Features-12\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Key Features<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uses Ruby, a full-featured modern scripting language, rather than a proprietary vendor script.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supports your web app no matter what it is developed in<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supports multiple browsers on different platforms<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Powerful and easy to use, yet lightweight<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watir webdriver is built on top of the WebDriver framework which can drive the most popular frameworks, making Watir perfectly usable with multiple browsers<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pricing-12\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Pricing<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Free\/Open Source<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Makes_it_Unique-12\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">What Makes it Unique?<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the ruby language is highly concise, the tests created using Waitr are very easy to create &amp; update. Thus, the long term maintenance of the test suit consumes less overhead.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ruby gives you the power to connect to databases, read data files and spreadsheets, export XML, and structure your code as reusable libraries<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s a very active and growing community behind it<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"UPDATE_Try_Reflect\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #00b674;\">UPDATE: Try Reflect\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Check out Reflect, a new web test automation tool on the market that our test engineer, Vale Sarro, got a demo from its creators to then give it a review! <a href=\"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/test-automation\/reflect-review-the-new-automated-web-testing-tool\/\">Read her review here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this list of top test automation tools? 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