Open Source Software Automation Tools breif introduction

This blog is basically related to introduce very helpful open source software testing tools. It described tools which is used in different type of application testing like web automation , API , performance and mobile testing.

SELENIUM WEBDRIVER

 

The primary new feature in Selenium Webdriver 2.0 is the integration of the WebDriver API. WebDriver is designed to provide a simpler, more concise programming interface in addition to addressing some limitations in the Selenium-RC API. Selenium-WebDriver was developed to better support dynamic web pages where elements of a page may change without the page itself being reloaded. WebDriver’s goal is to supply a well-designed object-oriented API that provides improved support for modern advanced web-app testing problems. This leads WebDriver to support “Multiple Languages” as well as “Multiple Support Browsers” which means that if any API supports multiple languages then this automatically leads to “Multiple Platforms”.

For more details and download visit: http://www.seleniumhq.org/ 

APPIUM

 

Appium is an open-source tool for automating native, mobile web, and hybrid applications on iOS and Android platforms. Native apps are those written using the iOS or Android SDKs. Mobile web apps are web apps accessed using a mobile browser (Appium supports Safari on iOS and Chrome or the built-in ‘Browser’ app on Android). Hybrid apps have a wrapper around a “webview” – a native control that enables interaction with web content. Appium isl developed and supported by Sauce Labs to test on cloud base platform. Appium is a HTTP server written in node.js which creates and handles multiple WebDriver sessions for different platforms like iOS and Android.

  

For more details and download visit: http://appium.io/

 POSTMAN Jetpacks

Postman helps you be extremely efficient while working with APIs. With Postman, you can construct requests quickly, save them for later use and analyze the responses sent by the API. Postman can dramatically cut down the time required to test and develop APIs. Postman adapts itself for individual developers, small teams or big organizations equally well.

Jetpacks are an awesome set of features which will make your API workflow faster and more efficient. The goal is to make you write less - or nothing at all - and still be able to execute complex scenarios, that would otherwise take a lot of code or an endless series of clicks in other applications.

 

For more details and download visit: https://www.getpostman.com

 Apache jMeter

 

The Apache JMeter application is open source software, a 100% pure Java application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. It was originally designed for testing Web Applications but has since expanded to other test functions.

 
Apache JMeter may be used to test performance both on static and dynamic resources (Webservices (SOAP/REST), Web dynamic languages - PHP, Java, ASP.NET, Files, etc. -, Java Objects, Data Bases and Queries, FTP Servers and more). It can be used to simulate a heavy load on a server, group of servers, network or object to test its strength or to analyze overall performance under different load types. You can use it to make a graphical analysis of performance or to test your server/script/object behavior under heavy concurrent load.
 

For more details and download visit: http://jmeter.apache.org

Above all tools are open source and it is widely used in industry for testing different types of platform. To enhance this tools into cloud base user need to purchasea licence to run test scripts on cloud envrionment.