samir_8956

 Profile Answers by samir_8956 

• Aug 23rd, 2008

 

Choosing of a tool depends on many things
1. Application to be tested
2. Test environment
3. Scope and limitation of the tool.
4. Feature of the tool.
5. Cost of the tool.
6. Whether the tool is compatible with your application which means tool should be able to interact with your appliaction
7. Ease of use.

raj1234ramesh

 Profile Answers by raj1234ramesh 

• Feb 5th, 2009

 

Depends on testing you choose:

To test for Functional and Regression Use : WinRunner/QTP
To test the application performance user : Load Runner
To handle the application for Defect tracking and management : TestDirector

raghuramsuravarapu

 Profile Answers by raghuramsuravarapu Questions by raghuramsuravarapu

• Mar 11th, 2009

 

There are 2 different approaches available for any company before evaluation/selection of an automation testing tool :

(1) Open Source Automation testing tools: Free of Cost. Less/No tech support.

(2) Licensed Automation testing tools: Cost/license, Full/Partial Support depends on the purchase.

Licensed Automation testing tools are the best at their performance when compared to the Open Source. But costlier tools like QTP/Winrunner/Rational/ Ranorex etc should be evaluated properly according to the company requirements before selection.
Advantage of Open source automation testing tools is they are free and reduces the risk to the company in finances. If evaluated properly and selected as per the requirements, it may be a cost effective and reap more benifits with no investment.

Following is the criteria, which i look before evaluation of an automation testing tool:

(1) Ease of use.
(2) Ease of Installation.
(3) Multiple OS Support.
(4) Multiple Language Support.
(5) Integration with 3 party tools.
(6) Report Generation.
(7) Desktop/Web products testing
(8) Data Driven testing using excel etc

monogeo

 Profile Answers by monogeo 

• Jul 8th, 2009

 

In addition to raghuramsuravarapu's criteria, I also look for these factors when picking an open source test tool:

- Cross-browser IDE to generate test cases
- Documentation
- Size of user community
- Activity level of user group
- Scripting language like python has a ton of modules available

Nadeemsharif

 Profile Answers by Nadeemsharif 

• Jul 9th, 2010

 

Two things needs to know before selecting automation tool.

1. Programing lanuage usage, if you have tester who knows Pure Java then go
for Selenium. If they know VbScript then go for QTP. Understanding of language is imporant.

2. Cost vs Support vs Ease of use.

QTP is costly, very costly but easy to use and maintain. But it have good Add-in support , lots of knoweldge is availabele for QTP on line.

Selenium is free, if test dont know pure object oriented lanugage then wastage of time to use Selenium or any open source tool. Less information onlie for open source tools.