Automated Testing: An Edge Over Manual Software Testing

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Automated Testing: An Edge Over Manual Software Testing
Jyotsna
CSE , Sharda University,
Noida, India
Mukul Varshney
Noida, India
Shivani Garg
Noida, India
Abha Kiran Rajpoot
Noida, India
ABSTRACT
Software Testing is a process of finding errors while
executing a program so that we get a zero defect
software. It is aimed at evaluating the capability or
usability of a program. Software testing is an
important means of accessing quality of software.
Complex systems are being built and testing
throughout the software development cycle is valid to
the success of the software. Testing is very expensive
process. Manual testing involves a lot of effort,
Measured in person per month. These efforts can be
reduced by using the automated testing with specific
tools.
Keywords: TET, RTH, Selenium, WaTin
I. INTRODUCTION
Software testing is the most critical phase of the
Software Development Life Cycle. Software under
test goes through various phases, which as per the
study are test analysis; test planning, test
case/data/environment preparation, test execution, bug
logging and tracking and closure. There is lot of
research which has been done in past to optimize
overall testing process with intent of improving
quality of software in a minimum amount of time.
After evaluating all available testing processes it has
been found that different development models are
used for different types of applications and different
testing techniques are performed to test the same.
Software testing is also an important component of
software quality assurance (SQA), and a number of
software organizations are spending up to 40% of
their resources on testing. There are four main
objectives of testing.
Detection: Various errors, defects, and deficiencies
are detected. System capabilities and various
limitations, quality of all components, the work
products, and the overall system are calculated
Prevention: In this information to prevent or reduce
the number of errors, to clarify system specifications
and system performance is provided. Different ways
to avoid risks and to tackle problems in the future are
identified.
Demonstration: It shows how the system can be used
with various acceptable risks. It also demonstrates
functions with special conditions and shows how
products are ready for integration or use. Improving
quality: By doing effective testing on software, errors
can be minimized and thus quality of software is
improved
Software testing is the main activity of evaluating and
executing software with a view to find out errors. It is
the process where the system requirements and
system components are exercised and evaluated
manually or by using automation tools to find out
whether the system is satisfying the specified
requirements and the differences between expected
and actual results are determined. Testing process can
be performed by two ways that are manual or
automation:
Manual testing is a process to test the software
manually to find out the bugs. Manual testing is
performed without using any automated tool. While
performing the manual testing a test plan is used that
describe the systematic and detailed approach of
testing a software application. The goal of the testing
is to make sure that the software application under test
is defect free. Manual testing is not suitable for large
projects as it requires more resources and time [1,2].
Automated testing is a process in which tools execute
a pre defined scripted test on software to find defects.
Automated software testing is the finest way to
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testing. Automation testing can does what manual
testing does not. Automation testing also improves the
accuracy and saves the time of the tester &
organization’s money. It is best appropriate in the
environment where the requirements are repeatedly
changing & huge amount of regression testing is
required to be performed.
II. Software Testing Process
STLC phases deals with detecting and rectifying any
error by using various software testing techniques.
This paper presents the required phases of testing
lifecycle without which no software life cycle would
be completed efficiently [3]. Testing basically
furnishes a criticism or a comparison that determines
the state behavior of the system against its
specifications, mechanisms, principles, characteristics
and relevant standards. Software testing process can
be customized according to the customer or the
project needs. The optimization process which one
can use while testing software is analysis, planning
and preparation, execution and closure. The software
process provides the flow of the system and enhances
the assurance of the product to be produced.
III. Software Test Automation Tools
Various types of tools are used for automated testing
and they can be used in different areas of testing. The
selection of tool is based on the type of application
which we want to test like automated web testing
tools, GUI testing tools. Selection of tools is totally
based on the project requirements. The tools are
divided into different categories as follows:
 Test Management tools
 Functional Testing Tools
 Load Testing Tools
a) Test Management tools
 TET (Test Environment Toolkit)
The goal behind creating the Test Environment
Toolkit (TET) was to produce a test driver that
accommodated the then current and anticipated future
testing needs of the test development community. To
achieve this goal, input from a wide sample of the
community was used for the specification and
development of TET’s functionality and interfaces.
 TETware
The TETware is the Test Execution Management
Systems which allows you to do the test
administration, sequencing of test, reporting of the
test result in the standard format (IEEE Std 1003.3
1991) and this tools is supports both UNIX as well as
32-bit Microsoft Windows operating systems, so
portability of this is with test cases you developed.
The TETware tools allow testers to work on a single,
standard, test harness, which helps you to deliver
software projects on time[5]. This is easily available
for download on ftp download.
 Test Manager
The Test Manager is an automated software testing
tool is used in day to days testing activities. The Java
programming language is used to develop this tool.
Such Test Management tools are used to facilitate
regular Software Development activities, automate &
mange the testing activities.
 RTH
RTH is called as “Requirements and Testing Hub”.
This is a open source test management tool where you
can use as requirement management tool along with
this it also provides the bug tracking facilities.
b) Functional Testing Tools
 Selenium
Selenium is an open source web testing tool which is
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platforms. It is divided into four components: First is,
Selenium IDE which is used as a prototyping tool and
no programming language is required. Second
Selenium Remote Control that allow users to use the
programming language. Third Web Driver which
implement a stable approach by direct communication
between the test scripts and browsers. Forth, Selenium
Grid that helps to execute parallel tests on different
browsers by using with Selenium Remote Control.
 SoapUI
SoapUI is the world's most widely-used open source
API testing tool for SOAP and REST APIs. SoapUI
offers SOAP Web Services functional testing, REST
API functional testing, WSDL coverage, message
assertion testing and test refactoring.
 Watir
Watir (Web Application Testing in Ruby, pronounced
water), is an open-source family of Ruby libraries for
automating web browsers. It drives Internet
Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari, and is
available as a RubyGemsgem. Watir was primarily
developed by Bret Pettichord and Paul Rogers.
 WatiN
WatiN stands for Web Application Testing In .NET,
and it's a framework that enables web application
testing through Internet Explorer.
The way that WatiN works is very "easy", knowing
that there's a lot of work behind a framework like this.
WatiN lets you open Internet Explorer instances, and
through interop, interact with the elements in a form.
 Webcorder
Webcorder is a freeware testing application which
was developed in VB for allowing you to make web
testing.
 Solex
Solex is a free open source Web application testing
tool built as a plug-in for the Eclipse IDE. It provides
functions to record a client session, adjust it according
to various parameters and replay it later typically in
order to ensure non regression of the application's
behavior. Solex acts as an HTTP proxy and records all
HTTP requests and responses going through the wire
between a Web client (eg. a Web browser) and a Web
server. The task of replaying a scenario consists in
sending the previously recorded and eventually
customized HTTP requests to the server and asserting
each response.
 Imprimatur
Imprimatur is a tool for performing automated
functional testing on web applications. The tests are
described in a simple test script. Along with the
standard HTTP methods, Imprimatur handles
authentication, file uploads and HTTPS. The
responses are validated using regular expressions.
Imprimatur is a web application testing tool. The tests
are described in a simple XML file. Along with the
standard HTTP methods, Imprimatur handles
authentication and file uploads. The responses can be
validated using regular expressions; Imprimatur is
designed to be the simplest web application functional
testing tool that could possibly work.
 WebInject
WebInject is a free tool for automated testing of web
applications and web services. It can be used to test
individual system components that have HTTP
interfaces (JSP, ASP, CGI, PHP, AJAX, Servlets,
HTML Forms, XML/SOAP Web Services, REST,
etc), and can be used as a test harness to create a suite
of [HTTP level] automated functional, acceptance,
and regression tests. A test harness allows you to run
many test cases and collect/report your results.
WebInject offers real-time results display and may
also be used for monitoring system response times.
WebInject can be used as a complete test framework
that is controlled by the WebInject User Interface
(GUI). Optionally, it can be used as a standalone test
runner (text/console application) which can be
integrated and called from other test frameworks or
applications
c) Load Testing Tools
 Jmeter
Apache JMeter is open source software, a 100% pure
Java desktop application, designed to load test
functional behavior and measure performance of web
sites. It was originally designed for load testing web

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applications but has since expanded to other test
functions. Apache JMeter may be used to test
functional and performance both on static and
dynamic resources (files, Servlets, Perl scripts, Java
Objects, Data Bases and Queries, FTP Servers and
more). It can be used to simulate a heavy load on a
server, network or object to test its strength or to
analyze overall performance under different load
types.
 FunkLoad
FunkLoad is a functional and load web tester, written
in Python, whose main use cases are:
 Functional testing of web projects, and thus
regression testing as well.
 Performance testing: by loading the web
application and monitoring your servers it
helps you to pinpoint bottlenecks, giving a
detailed report of performance measurement.
 Load testing tool to expose bugs that do not
surface in cursory testing, like volume testing
or longevity testing.
 Stress testing tool to overwhelm the web
application resources and test the application
recoverability.
 Writing web agents by scripting any web
repetitive task.
IV. Conclusion
This paper presents a study on various automated
testing tools that used on different platforms.
Automation testing tools helps the tester to easily
automate the whole testing process. Automation
testing improves the accuracy and also save time of
the tester as compared to the manual testing.
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