Recently I evaluated a few tools for the automation of testing for one of our web applications. I tried a few tools, which are as the following:

• AutomatedQA’s TestComplete - It is a very nice product offering a very rich set of features. This produce could be used very nicely for GUI application testing automation. It provides scripting support in C# and has native support for .NET application.
• Watir - I couldn’t try this much but it was mainly dropped from the list due to the learning curve involved in learning Ruby for using this whole suite efficiently. It is a very good testing automation suite both for web and desktop applications. Later after my evaluation, I also got to know that there is a .Net port available for Watir named Watin. I am looking forward to try that some time later.
• Sahi - I evaluated it and found it super fit for my testing automation. I chose Sahi mainly for the ease of use and the scripting language being Javascript. It provides an easy to use interface for recording and playing back the test cases. I started automating testing of the web application and to date I have been able to automate a very large portion of it. I hope to achieve about 60-70% of automated testing for my web application.

In the next post, I will write more in detail about Sahi that how we used it.

by Meraj Khattak