10 Best Functional Testing Automation tools

This Article will tell you the most used Functional Testing Automation Tools in the industry.

Before starting let me tell you that there is no 'Best' tool for everyone that can cater to all the requirements. So, its up to you and your requirements that you should choose the best tool for yourself.

Before deciding on the tool you must ask yourself a few questions like

• What is your SUT(system under test)? Including technology used to build the SUT( windows-based, Web-based, etc), enviornment it can run in( OS, hardware, etc)
  
• What are your Automation Goals/needs?
• How much is your budget?

So here's a list of ten mostly used tools for testing automation in the industry, not in an order or rating. (Click on the image or link to go directly to the tool page)



Quick Test Professional



WinRunner



Rational Functional Tester



Rational Robot



TestPlants's Eggplant



Borland Silk Test



Compuware Test Partner




Seapine QA Wizard Pro



Parasoft J-Test and C++ Test




e-TEST Suite Web Testing Products



There are also some open source tools for functional testing automation, which are worth mentioning. UI Automation Verify (UIA Verify) Test Automation Framework is Microsoft's contibution to Open Source and Selinium is a FireFox Pluggin used for web-based automations.

For more detailed evaluation you can visit
http://www.forrester.com/
http://www.compuware-insight.com/

Just remember, “The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”