{"id":18995,"date":"2020-09-05T14:49:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T09:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techjockey.com\/blog\/?p=18995"},"modified":"2025-02-12T11:30:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T06:00:50","slug":"best-open-source-testing-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techjockey.com\/blog\/best-open-source-testing-tools","title":{"rendered":"15 Best Open Source Testing Tools List to Choose From"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
While developing a new software, open source testing tools can be used to identify any bugs and faulty operation. By making use of open source test management tools, you can easily maintain and upgrade your software regularly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Open Source Testing Tools: How It\nHelps<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Open source automation testing tools are quite popular as their source code is available for free use and designers can build additions upon the basic framework. <\/p>\n\n\n\n With the help of open source performance\ntesting, you can examine your software or application at different stages and\nfor different parameters such as load, regression, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Not only this, open source testing tools\ncan be used for testing of mobile and desktop applications as well in addition\nto software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Benefits of open source load testing\ntools are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Licenses of open source test automation\ntools can be purchased for free or at a low cost and these tools require\nminimum hardware investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Several online communities exist for open\nsource software testing tool which provide utilities and support. These tools\nalso allow remote teams to collaborate on a project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since a lot of developers contribute to\nthe framework of open source testing tools, it is easier to identify any bugs\nin these tools which may harm your system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unlike open source test management tools,\ntesting software provided by specific vendors limits your team\u2019s performance.\nYou can only use the functionalities provided by that vendor and security\npatches also take a long time to be released. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the following section,you can read\nabout top open source testing tools which are suitable for web, mobile and\ndesktop applications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Open Source Testing Tool for Web Application<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Selenium open source test management tool\nis compatible with different browsers, programming languages and operating\nsystems. With Selenium, you can automate administrative tasks which are\nprimarily based on the web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Selenium Open Source Automation Testing Tool Features<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ecosystem showcases some of the projects\nwhich have been designed using Selenium webdriver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With Selenium, you get access to\nlibraries containing different languages and commands from Selenium API.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Selenium offers automation of web\napplications by supporting testing frameworks such as FluentLenium, QAF,\nCapybara, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is used for quick bug identification\nwithout having to learn a scripting language. Selenium IDE can be added as a\nbrowser extension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Selenium grid provides you the option of performing\nsoftware testing on several machines and manage them from a central point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pros<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Cons<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n JMeter, also known as Apache JMeter, is a\nJava based load testing tool. Developed with the scope to initially test web\napplication, this open source test automation tool has expanded to testing\nseveral more applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n JMeter Testing Tool Features<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n JMeter can be used for testing of static\nand dynamic resources as well as web dynamic applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With its command line mode feature, tests\ncan be loaded from any Java compatible OS such as Linux, Mac OS, Windows, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n JMeter uses multithreading framework for\nsimultaneous function sampling across different threads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n JMeter provides caching and offline\ndisplay of test results. It also allows for replaying those test results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Through Visualization plugins, you can\npersonalize JMeter open source testing tool as per your business need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pros<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Cons <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n WatiN is the short form for Web\nApplication testing in .NET. It is an open source testing tool which tests web\napplications through browsers. WatiN has been written in C#, which makes it\neasier to automate tests by using web browsers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WatiN Test Management Tool Features<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n WatiN testing tool provides the option of\nrecording tests for the future reference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n With WatiN, you can automate different\nHTML elements of various attributes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can create and store screenshots of\nimportant web pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WatiN supports both modal and modeless\nHTML dialogs and frames such as cross domain and iframes<\/p>\n\n\n\n WatiN can be integrated with any .Net\nlanguage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pros<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Cons<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Robot\nFramework is an open source software testing tool meant for acceptance test\ndriven and behaviour development. Many software firms also use robot framework\nfor robotic process automation (RPA). It is a python-based testing tool\nsuitable for heterogeneous testing environment. Moreover, Robot Framework\nlibraries and tools can be developed as individual projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Robot Framework Open Source Testing Tool Features<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Robot framework can be integrated with\nseveral different software tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Robot Framework has an easy to read\nsyntax, which makes use of human readable keywords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Robot Framework is hosted on GitHub which\ncontains documentation and source code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The open source testing software is\noperational system and platform independent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Abilities of Robot Framework can be\nextended using its libraries based on Python and Java.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pros<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Cons<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Benefits of Open Source Test Management Tools<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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