This whitepaper specifies test automation market and provides the comprehensive data on the most popular test automation tools in 2017 – 2018 including Selenium WebDriver, Appium, Robotium, Serenity, Robot, Galen, HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT), Ranorex Studio, TestComplete, Telerik Test Studio, and Applitools Eyes.
The document consists of two sections:
- Section 1 provides the analysis of technical characteristics of the most popular test automation tools, purposes of their implementation, functional restrictions and perspectives for further development.
- Section 2 includes the view of Selenium WebDriver, Appium, TestComplete, Ranorex Studio – the tools best suitable for test automation according to QATestLab test automation engineers. The choice of tools is based on successful execution of about 50 test automation projects. The section includes advantages and disadvantages of tools and recommendation on their practical use.
The document is aimed to assist in selecting a proper test automation tool, providing the review of test automation tools not according to their price but according to the sphere and goals of implementation and their functional capacities and limitations.