I asked and you answered. Many of you wrote in about my column two weeks ago titled, “Functional Testing Tools, the Open Source Wave,” in which I described open-source alternatives to commercial test products contained in a Forrester research report. Thanks to each and every one of you for taking the time to write, particularly those to whom I didn’t have time to reply personally.
Many informed me of tools I passed over. Here are a few of those:
My organization is using AutoIt for our .NET project. How does this compare to the other open-source tools? For me, I have to make changes all of the time. [I am] looking for a tool [that] adjusts to any changes in a Windows Form application where the UI is changing, but the objects are not!
– Charles Bytheway
You missed a big one—Selenium from OpenQA.org. There hasn't been much announced about it yet, but Twist also looks to be an exciting new "keyword" tool that will be based on the Selenium engine.
– Brian Dall
I was surprised you did not include the test automation tool Watir in your article. Watir has been downloaded more than 85,000 times and is easily one of the most widely used tools for automating functional tests of browser-based applications.
– Pete Dignan
You missed the eValid solution, which does them all one better by putting ALL of the test functions inside a browser.
– Edward Miller
A few of your letters were simply there to express gratitude for the coverage, which I suppose I appreciate most of all. I don’t get much feedback, so it’s always nice to know when I’m helping someone. Here’s one of the better ones:
Thanks for the information on the various tools. Providing the original Web site for the source of your searching is helpful. I found your brief descriptions of the various tools useful enough for me to consider investigating some of them.
My company has adopted TestLink as a test case repository and execution tracking tool. We have adapted to the quirks of the tool, and I have found it to be useful, but it could use some more enhancements that are currently in the queue waiting for the funding that is necessary to make the changes. I now have another Web site to add to my list of useful places to visit. Thanks again.
– Gretchen Henrich
The August issue of Software Test & Performance is available. Download it NOW!!! Don’t miss “
All the Right Ingredients for Successful Unit Testing,” in which veteran tester Alan Berg describes methods of using Maven to create an effective build strategy that blends well with the development team. Also in this issue is “
Mixing Test/QA and Dev Teams,” a tutorial by agile experts Robert Walsh and Megan Sumrell that will help testers adapt to agile development without getting knocked around. And in “
Empty-handed Load Testing,” an article by testing specialist Philip Kedy, you’ll learn how to do performance testing with nothing but free tools from the open-source community.
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