What are some great alternatives to selenium testing?

New set of tools to evaluate Web Testing

• PageObject Generator Utility for Selenium WebDriver (Links - Link1, Link2 )
• What are some great alternatives to selenium testing?
• PhantomJS
• Zombie.js
• Roslyn + Selenium: Scripty C# Powering Browser Automation
• Browser Automation and Acceptance Testing with Geb
• Cucumber: Testing Web Applications With Capybara, Poltergeist and PhantomJS
• Helium - Commercial Tool for Web Test Automation

Interesting Reads

• Twister - Open Source Test Automation Framework 
• Fast and Reliable Test Setup with REST ApIs
• How To Create a Data Driven Test
• Using WebDriver to automatically check for JavaScript errors on every page
• Automated testing of web applications (MS Unit Testing Framework + Selenium WebDriver C #). Part 2.2: Selenium API wrapper - WebElement tutorial
• Automated testing of web applications (MS Unit Testing Framework + Selenium WebDriver C #). Part 3: WebPages - describe the pages
• Building a self maintaining Grid Environment
• Autotests framework example (Selenium WebDriver C#)
• How To Chat with the Selenium Community
• Robot Framework – Testing Windows Applications

Happy Reading!!!

Tools to evaluate for Web Testing

Time is limited, Delivering new products to customers plays a key role. Efficiency in terms of cost, time and effort is the key.

To finalize a test tool for functional/perf test automation below are few guidelines/considerations

• Pick Top 3 test tools in terms of Features provided, Cost, Cost of Training
• Review the tools using Trial versions/Demos
• Analyse effort required to learn the tools, develop the framework and manage the framework
• Evaluate cost for developing in-house tool vs Using Open Source Tools vs Licensing a Tool

Couple of Interesting tools to try out are

• Browsera - Automated browser compatability, layout, JS Errors detection
• Stella - Web Apps Functional Test Tool
• Google Layout Detection Tool
• Crossbrowser testing - For cross platform testing
• Browsermob - Website loadtesting and monitoring tools
• Page Latency Testing , Google Page Speed , web page test
• Multi-Mechanize - Google web performance and load testing framework
• browsershots - Test your web design in different browsers
• WebUI Test Studio - Silverlight, AJAX and MVC Automation
• Traffic Squeezer - Open-Source WAN/Network Optimization and Acceleration Solution
• Browserling - cross-browser testing platform
• Network Speed Simulation for Testing

 More Reads

• Automated Test Tools Evaluation Criteria
• Free Functional and Load Test Tools for Web Apps
• Website Speed Check Tools
• Free tools to measure website performance
• Complete setup guide for Ruby, Cucumber and Watir or Selenium webdriver on Windows

Happy Reading!!