AUTOMATED TOOL INTRODUCTION

Automated Tool:

                   Automated tool is an assistant of a test engineer, which works based on the instructions and information given by a test engineer.

                   A test engineer should learn the following to work with any automated tool

·         How to give the instructions?

·         How to give the information?

·         How to use its recording facility?

·         How to use its play back facility?

·         How to analyze the results?

Types of Automated Tools:

A black box testing tools are broadly divided in to Three Types

 Functional tools   : QTP, Winrunner,Rft,Selenium, , Test     partner, Test

complete,Testdrive

 Management Tools  : Test Director/Quality Center, Jira,Qtest,   QaComplete

Performance tools   : Load Runner,silk,jmeter

       Differences between Qtp and selenium

               Qtp                                                     Selenium

Developed by mercury                                   developed by Jason Huggins in 2004

  In 1994   

Commercial tool                                            open source tool

We have recording facility                             we don’t have recording facility in wd

We can use vb                                                we can use java,pearl,python,c#,ruby

Excellent Object Identification mechanism      no object identification

We can work with window,web applications    only for web applications