Top 10 automation Testing Tools

Quick Test Professional(QTP)

HP QuickTest Professional software provides functional and regression test automation for software applications and environments.Part of the HP Quality Center tool suite, HP QuickTest Professional can be used for enterprise quality assurance
HP QuickTest Professional supports keyword and scripting interfaces and features a graphical user interface. It uses the Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) scripting language to specify a test procedure, and to manipulate the objects and controls of the application under test.
HP QuickTest Professional was originally written by Mercury Interactive. Mercury Interactive was subsequently acquired by Hewlett Packard (HP) in 2006.HP QuickTest Professional is currently available from HP Software Division.

IBM Rational Functional Tester 

IBM Rational Functional Tester is a tool for automated testing of software applications from the Rational Software division of IBM. It allows users to create tests that mimic the actions and assessments of a human tester.[1] It is primarily used by Software Quality Assurance teams to perform automated regression testing.

Selenium

Selenium is a portable software testing framework for web applications. Selenium provides a record/playback tool for authoring tests without learning a test scripting language (Selenium IDE). It also provides a test domain-specific language (Selenese) [1] to write tests in a number of popular programming languages, including C#, Java, Groovy, Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby. The tests can then be run against most modern web browsers. Selenium deploys on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh platforms.

TestComplete 

TestComplete is an automated testing tool, developed by SmartBear Software which aims to allow testers to create software quality tests. Tests can be recorded, manually scripted or created manually with keyword operations and used for automated playback and error logging.
TestComplete is used for testing many different application types including Web, Windows, WPF, Flash, Flex, Silverlight, .NET and Java .It automates front end UI/functional testing and back-end testing like database, and HTTP load testing

Telerik-Test Studio 

Test Studio [2] is used for testing all type of web applications without the need of writing code. The tool comes in two editions – a Visual Studio plug-in for software developers, and a standalone edition for QA professionals. Test Studio supports various web technologies such as HTML, AJAX, Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC, JavaScript

Visual Studio Test Professional 

Visual Studio Test Professional is an integrated testing toolset developed by Microsoft that delivers a complete plan-test-track workflow for in-context collaboration between testers and developers, in order to increase testers’ visibility to the overall project.

SilkTest

SilkTest is an automation tool for testing the functionality of enterprise applications in most versions of Windows, Solaris 9 and 10, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1 and 3.0.[1] It was produced by Segue Software which was acquired by Borland in 2006. Borland was acquired by Micro Focus International in 2009. SilkTest became the strategic product to eventually replace TestPartner, which was acquired by Micro Focus International from Compuware.
SilkTest offers various clients: - SilkTest Classic uses the domain specific 4Test language for automation scripting. It is an object oriented language similar to C++. It uses the concepts of classes, objects, and inheritance. - Silk4J allows to do automation in Eclipse using Java as scripting language - Silk4Net allows the same in Visual Studio using VB or C# - SilkTest Workbench allows automation testing on a visual level (similar to former TestPartner)

SOAtest 

Parasoft SOAtest is "a comprehensive testing and analysis tool suite for tailored to the unique testing and validation needs of Service Oriented Architectures." It helps testers test the message layer functionality of their services by automating their testing and supports numerous transport protocols including: HTTP 1.0, HTTP/1.1, JMS, MQ, RMI, SMTP, TIBCO, .NET WCF HTTP, .NET WCF TCP. Basic testing functionality include static analysis through WSDL testing, functional unit testing, regression testing, security testing, and load testing. Parasoft SOAtest introduced application behavior virtualization, which creates copies of applications or back-end systems that are otherwise difficult to access or exercise during development and testing. Application behavior virtualization was extended and is now available in Parasoft Virtualize. SOAtest is used by companies such as Sabre, Lufthansa Cargo AG, Siemens AG, MedicAlert, and AOL

TOSCA Test suite 

TOSCA Testsuite is a software tool for the automated execution of functional and regression software testing. In addition to test automation functions, TOSCA includes integrated test management, a graphical user interface (GUI), a command line interface (CLI) and an application programming interface (API). TOSCA Testsuite is developed by the Austrian software company TRICENTIS Technology & Consulting GmbH based in Vienna. In 2011, TOSCA was included in Gartner Inc.’s "Magic Quadrant for Integrated Software Quality Suites" report as a “visionary”.

Watir 

Web Application Testing in Ruby (or Watir, pronounced "water") is a toolkit used to automate browser-based tests during web application development. This automated test tool uses the Ruby (programming language) scripting language to drive Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari, and is available as a RubyGems gem. Watir was primarily developed by Bret Pettichord and Paul Rogers.

Testing Anywhere 

Testing Anywhere is software produced by San Jose-based Automation Anywhere, Inc. (est. 2003). The software allows testers and developers to test applications, Web sites, objects, controls and GUI front-ends.The company has been featured in SD Times for its creation of "Object Avatars", and has over 25,000 customers.

                                             

Ranorex 

Ranorex is a Windows GUI test automation framework for testing many different application types including Web 2.0 applications, Win32, MFC, WPF, Flash/Flex, .NET and Java (SWT). Ranorex doesn't have a scripting language of its own. The user (e.g. the software tester) can use the functionalities of the programming languages like C# and VB.NET as a base, and enlarge it with the GUI automation functionality of Ranorex.

HTTP Test Tool (htt)

HTTP Test Tool (htt) is an open source scriptable protocol test tool for HTTP protocol based products like web servers, web browsers, web applications or ICAP.
Software products are per se not error free. Adding new features, fixing errors and upgrading library versions can all introduce new errors and security holes. A protocol test tool helps to detect errors within HTTP protocol based Software. It is very simple and can therefore do bad requests/response to emulate bad or malicious server/client software. There are many more protocol test tools for HTTP like OpenSTA, ApacheBench, Selenium... which also can do stress testing.

QF-Test 

QF-Test (the successor of qftestJUI, available since 2001) from Quality First Software is a cross-platform software tool for the GUI test automation limited to Java/Swing, SWT, Eclipse plug-ins and RCP applications, ULC, Java applets, Java Web Start and cross-browser test automation of web-based applications (HTML, AJAX, ExtJS, GWT, RAP, Qooxdoo, RichFaces).