
Test automation services is very essential for a successful and on–time automation testing process.
These frameworks help the testing team to reduce the cost and testing efforts by providing high RoI on the testing initiatives.
The idea of this blog is to walk you through the top open source test automation frameworks that are available in the market.
Every test automation framework has its own advantage and disadvantage. Let’s explore the list
Most commonly used open-source test automation frameworks are listed below :
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Selenium is, without a doubt, one of the best open source research tools available today. Selenium is an excellent automation testing platform for mobile apps since it is compatible with a wide range of programming languages, testing platforms, browsers, and operating systems.
It facilitates the development of highly successful test scripts for regression testing, exploratory testing, and bug replication.
Selenium is the most widely used open source web application test automation platform. Selenium is the foundation for a large number of other research instruments.
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Appium is a tool for testing mobile apps. It’s built with the idea that you shouldn’t have to recompile or change your software in any way to test it. You shouldn’t have to run the tests in a particular language or structure.
Robot Framework (RF) is widely used for user acceptance testing or acceptance test-driven development (ATDD).
This mature solution uses keyword driven approach to create easy and readable tests. It is written in Python, but also can run on Jython (Java) and IronPython (.NET) and therefore can be used across platforms (Windows, Linux, or MacOS).
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This tool is highly recommended due to its keyword driven approach. This quality of the framework makes it compatible with wide range of libraries and extensions.
Only a basic knowledge of Java/Python/C programming language is essential to use the tool efficiently.
Cucumber is an open-source platform that is built on the principle of behavioural guided development, and it allows you to perform automated acceptance testing by running the examples that best explain the application’s actions.
It supports cross-platform operating systems and programming languages such as Ruby, Java, and.NET.
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JUnit is a framework to perform unit testing for Java applications and is used to write and execute repeatable tests. JUnit is a part of XUnit and can support different OS.
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The tool is the best option for performing unit testing for java applications. However, the tool does not support for functional testing or non-Java applications.
It is unit-testing framework that can be used for all DotNet based applications. Junit firstly derives NUnit and it is written in C#, and has been wholly redesigned to support .NET applications.
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This tool is a best option for C# unit testing, with a matured history and decent status.
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TestNG is a dedicated test automation framework for Java based application that is inspired by JUnit and NUnit. It includes improved and new functionalities that covers all the test automation categories such as unit testing, functional test, end-to-end integration testing.
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The basic requirement of TestNG is time. One should be willing to invest ample amount of time to set up this framework. After this, the tool can be used efficiently end-to-end test automation.
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