The testing tool, Eggplant uses intelligent image recognition algorithms to "see" the display screen of the computer being tested. For this, the software secured a US patent for its method for monitoring a graphical user interface on a second computer display from a first computer" for its GUI testing tool. This also enables it to run without need of human intervention. This brought it to the attention of UK Trade & Investment, specifically its defense and security arm, the DSO. Eggplant can be run from Mac, Windows, or Linux to test any platform, technology, or browser. It can be used for mobile testing, cross platform testing, rich internet application testing, and performance testing. The company also offers a free trial download of Eggplant.

This software provides automated testing capabilities for functional, regression, GUI and data-driven testing. It supports a range of applications, such as web-based, .Net, Java, Siebel, SAP, terminal emulator-based applications, PowerBuilder, Ajax, Adobe Flex, Dojo Toolkit, GEF, Adobe PDF documents, zSeries, iSeries and pSeries. Features:

• Visual editing through screenshots

IBM Rational Functional Tester provides a visual, storyboard format for representing test actions. Storyboard testing combines natural language test narrative with visual editing through application screenshots. That means novice and professional testers can communicate and understand test flow and edit test actions without reading or writing test script code.

• Advanced ScriptAssure technology

With the advanced ScriptAssure technology, this software allows you to accommodate frequent user interface changes and avoid increases in maintenance overhead. ScriptAssure uses fuzzy matching algorithms to locate objects during test execution, even if the objects have changed since test creation. You can develop automation scripts that are associated with keywords. Keyword testing promotes script reuse and enables manual testers to use automation within manual test cycles.

• Earlier data detection

Using IBM Rational Functional Tester, you can automatically detect data entered during test recording and prepare the test for data-driven testing. Using a spreadsheet-like data editor, you can create customized data sets to be used by the test during playback. This software manages validation of dynamic data with multiple verification points and support for regular expression pattern matching.

• Test scripting

Choose between either Java or Visual Basic .NET; testers using Java can work in the Eclipse Java editor, and those using Visual Basic .NET can work in Visual Studio .NET. This software offers scripting to create, edit and execute tests on the Linux platform, including everything except a test recorder. On the Windows platform, it provides all recording, editing and execution capabilities. It supports automated version control to maintain multiple test sets and to enable parallel development.

• Integration with other software

IBM Rational Functional Tester provides IBM Jazz integration to support collaborative application lifecycle management. IBM Jazz Eclipse Client integration provides IBM Rational Functional Tester access to work items within IBM Rational Team Concert and IBM Rational Quality Manager. Enhanced SCM integration with IBM Rational Team Concert supports the management and sharing of test assets.

All-in-one test automation Accelerate testing for desktop, web and mobile applications. Ranorex Studio empowers testers with a complete toolset for end-to-end testing of desktop, web and mobile applications in a single license. Automate tests on a Windows desktop, and then execute them locally or remotely, on real iOS or Android mobile devices or on simulators/emulators. Run tests in parallel and accelerate cross-browser testing for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Microsoft Edge, and more. With Ranorex Studio, you and your team will spend less time resolving issues with unstable tests and more time assessing the quality of your application. Same-day productivity Rapidly build and deploy reliable, maintainable automated tests – with or without coding. Easy-to-use tools and a built-in methodology enable testers to create modular automation scripts that are efficient and maintainable, regardless of programming expertise.  Reach your test automation goals faster with Ranorex Studio. Powerful reporting features Keep your project on track with timely reports. Monitor the results of testing with an overview of the test execution flow, including pie charts, screenshots, and detailed error logs that are easily readable for testers, developers, and project managers alike. View a comprehensive test report within Ranorex Studio, save it as a PDF or automatically receive it as an email attachment. Customize the report to fit your needs. Generate JUnit-compatible reports for easy integration with CI tools. Reduce debugging time by jumping to a failed test step directly from a test report, or use the maintenance mode to repair tests on the fly while the test is still running.

It has easy-to-use tabular test data syntax and it utilizes the keyword-driven testing approach. Its testing capabilities can be extended by test libraries implemented either with Python or Java, and users can create new higher-level keywords from existing ones using the same syntax that is used for creating test cases. Robot Framework project is hosted on GitHub where you can find further documentation, source code, and issue tracker. Downloads are hosted at PyPI. The framework has a rich ecosystem around it consisting of various generic test libraries and tools that are developed as separate projects. Robot Framework is operating system and application independent. The core framework is implemented using Python and runs also on Jython (JVM) and IronPython (.NET). Robot Framework itself is open source software released under Apache License 2.0, and most of the libraries and tools in the ecosystem are also open source. The framework was initially developed at Nokia Networks and it is nowadays sponsored by Robot Framework Foundation. Why Robot Framework?

• Enables easy-to-use tabular syntax for creating test cases in a uniform way.
• Provides ability to create reusable higher-level keywords from the existing keywords.
• Provides easy-to-read result reports and logs in HTML format.
• Is platform and application independent.
• Provides a simple library API for creating customized test libraries which can be implemented natively with either Python or Java.
• Provides a command line interface and XML based output files for integration into existing build infrastructure (continuous integration systems).
• Provides support for Selenium for web testing, Java GUI testing, running processes, Telnet, SSH, and so on.
• Supports creating data-driven test cases.
• Has built-in support for variables, practical particularly for testing in different environments.
• Provides tagging to categorize and select test cases to be executed.
• Enables easy integration with source control: test suites are just files and directories that can be versioned with the production code.
• Provides test-case and test-suite -level setup and teardown.
• The modular architecture supports creating tests even for applications with several diverse interfaces.

Selenium is a portable software-testing framework for web applications. Selenium provides a playback (formerly also recording) tool for authoring tests without the need to learn a test scripting language (Selenium IDE). It also provides a test domain-specific language (Selenese) to write tests in a number of popular programming languages, including C#, Groovy, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Scala. The tests can then run against most modern web browsers. Selenium deploys on Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms. It is open-source software, released under the Apache 2.0 license: web developers can download and use it without charge.

TestComplete has an open and flexible architecture that makes creating, maintaining, and executing automated tests across desktop, web, and mobile applications easy, speedy, and cost effective. Some of the key features of the TestComplete platform that demonstrate its power include:

• Industry-leading object recognition
• Support for 7 different scripting languages
• The ability to record robust automated tests without scripting knowledge
• Comprehensive defect tracking and reporting capabilities

With the industry’s most innovative functional testing technologies, Tricentis Tosca breaks through the barriers experienced with conventional software testing tools. Using Tricentis Tosca, leading companies such as HBO, Toyota, Allianz, BMW, Starbucks, Deutsche Bank, Lexmark, Orange and UBS achieve 90%+ test automation rates. That’s why top analysts recognize Tricentis as “Industry Leader.” Why choose Tricentis Tosca for test automation:

• Reduce regression testing from weeks to minutes
• Maximize reuse and maintainability with model-based test automation
• Gain clear insight into the risk of your release candidates
• Achieve sustainable automation with proven, market-leading technology

Watir project consists of several smaller projects. The most important ones are watir-classic, watir-webdriver and watirspec. Watir-classic Watir-classic makes use of the fact that Ruby has built in Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) capabilities. As such it is possible to drive Internet Explorer programmatically.[6] Watir-classic operates differently than HTTP based test tools, which operate by simulating a browser. Instead Watir-classic directly drives the browser through the OLE protocol, which is implemented over the Component Object Model (COM) architecture. The COM permits interprocess communication (such as between Ruby and Internet Explorer) and dynamic object creation and manipulation (which is what the Ruby program does to the Internet Explorer). Microsoft calls this OLE automation, and calls the manipulating program an automation controller. Technically, the Internet Explorer process is the server and serves the automation objects, exposing their methods; while the Ruby program then becomes the client which manipulates the automation objects. Watir-webdriver Watir-webdriver is a modern version of the Watir API based on Selenium. Selenium 2.0 (selenium-webdriver) aims to be the reference implementation of the WebDriver specification. In Ruby, Jari Bakken has implemented the Watir API as a wrapper around the Selenium 2.0 API. Not only is Watir-webdriver derived from Selenium 2.0, it is also built from the HTML specification, so Watir-webdriver should always be compatible with existing W3C specifications. Watirspec Watirspec is executable specification of the Watir API, like RubySpec is for Ruby.

The Business Friendly, Sustainable Test Automation Solution Automation in Worksoft Certify is built using the patented Object Action Framework. This framework effectively models the application under test as a series of pages containing GUI objects and test steps, performing actions against those objects. It creates and stores automated test steps in a relational database without a single script or program. The resulting automation decouples the test from the application, making tests resilient to changes in the application under test. A Certify test never needs to be re-recorded when the application or process changes. You can easily open an existing Certify process to add, modify, or delete steps when required. If an application object changes, an update can be performed once and all related tests will update automatically. Improve test reuse even more with process compare. It’s easier than ever to consolidate and reduce test maintenance by quickly evaluating two processes to determine whether an existing test provides identical coverage. Accelerate Test Automation Creation with Master Content Test Library Certify includes a large library of robust master content wtih common business process scenarios. Standard utilities are also provided to improve the consistency of automation. These include string scenarios covering major SAP processes such as Order to Cash, Produce to Pay, Hire to Retire, plus a wide variety of unit and integration tests. Master content accelerates success, especially if you’re just starting your automation journey. It provides a library of prebuilt content you can quickly customize for your environment. Common content also provides a significant efficiency advantage. Reusable components can be updated through a single touch point, instead of requiring maintenance across dozens or hundreds of assets. Let Your Tests Fail, Not Your Automation Worksoft Certify allows you to determine custom actions based on failed test steps. There’s no easier way to continue running tests, take screenshots of failed steps, select alternate test scenarios, and more. Test results are tracked in Certify, and detailed screens shots of error conditions help identify the root cause of the problem. Worksoft Certify also offers robust integrations with several ALM and ticketing systems including HP ALM, IBM RQM, SAP Solution Manager, JIRA, and ServiceNow. With one click defects can be entered in JIRA, ServiceNow, or Excel.