In China, the steps of software testing are relatively late, and it has been difficult to change as a weak part. But on the other hand, with the rapid development of the software industry, the frequency of software version upgrades exceeds people's imagination. As a software tester, I have to keep up with this rapid progress.
When the version is released, it is necessary to complete the test task in a short period of time. It becomes more and more unfeasible to rely on the accumulation of manpower for the progress of testers, and the automation of testing becomes more and more important. Although domestic automated testing is much later than software testing, it has been much more powerful from the beginning. All departments in several departments are discussing automated testing for a while, and the future of automated testing seems to be bright. But over the past few years, the development of automated testing has been a bit thunderous and rainy, and the status quo of automated testing is obviously not as good as imagined. The common reasons are as follows,
Daunting type: Regardless of the purchase cost of commercial software, automated testing requires manpower to achieve automated scripts and maintenance requires a lot of manpower
Anticlimactic type: At the beginning, all the staff were excited, buying automation testing tool, doing training, building a structure and working process, and all staff went to the battlefield together. Investing a while to discover that automated testing can yield benefits in a short amount of time, and the tools themselves have many limitations.
The same type: the company has invested a lot of effort and invested huge costs in implementation, but it did not analyze the specific situation of the project test well before the implementation. As a result, the maintenance cost of the script produced is higher than that of manual testing.
If WEB automation is to be used in projects, one of the must-kill skills of automation testing tool is script recording. If you write scripts manually, the project is doomed to fail, because the cost of script maintenance in the later period will make you It hurts so much.
Script recording technology is generally analyzed into the following technologies:
Coordinate positioning: This is a simple scripting technology, suitable for simple and repeated playback, not suitable for project automation functions, such as: button sprites.
Graphic recognition: It is a way to locate elements by the similarity of images. The positioning accuracy of this technology is not accurate, and it is easy to fail.
Element attribute positioning: precise positioning and good reliability. There are many techniques for this kind of element positioning, such as: id, name, xpaht, etc., but it is easy to fail when the code changes.
In response to these situations, the author reviews the mainstream automation testing tool in the market one by one to share with readers.
1. kylinTOP
It is a domestic automation testing tool that supports performance testing, automated testing, and business monitoring functions. Here we mainly talk about its automation functions, which mainly support: interface testing, web, APP functions. Here mainly talk about commonly used WEB automation.
kylinTOP supports script recording to generate scripts. Element positioning adopts an element attribute comprehensive positioning technology (AI technology). At the same time, the script is visualized, which relieves testers of coding pain, effectively improves the efficiency of automated script construction, and reduces maintenance costs. It is an automation testing tool with the most potential in China, and it is also an automation testing tool most likely to achieve success in the project.
2. HP QuickTest Professional software (QTP)
It is an automation testing tool. The purpose of using QTP is to use it to perform repetitive manual testing, mainly for regression testing and testing new versions of the same software. Using element positioning technology, testers need to manually maintain script code.
3. QuickTest
QuickTest is aimed at GUI applications, including traditional Windows applications, and now more and more popular Web applications. It is a generation of traditional GUI testing tools that use element positioning and need to maintain script code.
4. WinRunner
WinRunner is an enterprise-level functional testing tool from Interactive Company, which is used to detect whether the application can achieve the expected function and normal operation
