What are the best test automation tools for web apps?

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What are the best test automation tools for web apps?

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22 Options Considered

Best test automation tools for web apps	Price	Platforms	Git
56 Selenium	-	-	-
-- Travis	-	Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, Web	Yes
-- Blisk browser	Paid	Windows, Linux, Mac	-
-- Cypress	Free / paid	-	-
-- Testcafe	-	-	-

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score 29 · Answer 1

Selenium

Top Pro

Actively supported

The open source community behind Selenium has a very large & engaged developer base. This ensures a stable support channel for the tool. In addition, various companies also provide support for Selenium. This active and multi-channel support provides a much more lucrative option for developers looking to implement Selenium in their workflow. See More

Top Con

Requires installation of drivers

Top Pro

Cross-browser

Supports many browsers and a solid platform for adding future browsers to selenium (WebDriver) See More

Top Con

The IDE for recording isn't too powerful

Top Pro

Cross-platform

Selenium is based on Java and can be run on Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix, etc. See More

Top Con

Issues with locators

Locators that support common attributes like: name, id, XPATH, javascriptDOM, etc. have to be found through firebugs. See More

Top Pro

Ability to imitate a real user using the application

Testing is analogous to a human being using the web application which is not possible with a solution which runs headless and claims to run faster than Selenium. See More

Top Pro

Integrates with any CI tool

Selenium, with its ability to interact with different testing frameworks, like NUnit or xUnit, makes it easy to get Selenium working with practically any Continuous Integration services. See More

Top Pro

Uses an approved WC3 standard - WebDriver

The WebDriver protocol is standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium which makes it easy for third-parties to get involved and contribute to Selenium. WebDriver has been the foundation of many additional automation projects besides core selenium and has become the de-facto standard for UI automation. See More

Top Pro

You can use the same IDE you use for coding to debug

Top Pro

Integrates well with existing testing frameworks

Top Pro

Support for many languages

Selenium supports a variety of languages including Java, Python, PHP, C#, Ruby and JavaScript ensuring that the tool is easily accessible to a wide variety of developers. See More

Top Pro

Use the very minimum amount of code required to run

Selenium tries to inject into the page only the bare minimum of code needed to run the tests. See More

Top Pro

Easy to set preconditions for the tests

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score 5 · Answer 2

Travis

Top Pro

Supports more than a dozen languages

Support for C, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Groovy, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Scala. See More

Top Con

Only GitHub support

It does not support BitBucket. So it's not in list for companies using BitBucket private or public repositories. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, Web

Top Pro

Easy to set up and configure

All that is needed to set up Travis is a configuration file (travis.yml) in the root of the repository where it will be installed and Travis takes care of the rest. See More

Top Pro

Github integration

Travis registers every push to GitHub and automatically builds the branch by default. See More

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score 1 · Answer 3

Blisk browser

Top Pro

Error notifier

Blisk monitors page errors in JavaScript and resources that failed to load. Blisk notifies you when the issue appears and searches for the solution on StackOverflow. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac

Top Pro

Take a screenshots and records video

Blisk can take a screenshot/record video and store them in Blisk cloud See More

Top Pro

A browser made for development

Top Pro

Device emulation

Blisk offers a lot of different devices: phones, tablets, laptops, desktops. support touch event, landscape or portrait mode, have a proper screen resolution, device pixel ratio and user agent. The list of devices updates constantly. See More

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score 2 · Answer 4

Cypress

Top Con

You gotta pay to have full features

Obviously, but still a con. See More

Top Pro

Multibrowser support

It's not landed yet, but they're actively working on it. See More

GutsyMahuika's Experience

I'm working on regression for an APP, and beleive me it saves times, and tests are easy to write on this. See More

Top Con

Does not work on Safari

Top Pro

They show you best practices

Has documentation and best practices. See More

Top Con

NO Cross Browser testing

Firefox support is in Beta already and can be used See More

Top Pro

Getting started is easy

The setup is super easy, honest, get the node, download the package, and run the examples, and start your first test. See More

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score 2 · Answer 5

Testcafe

Top Pro

Easy to use

Top Con

A touch on the pricey side

James's Experience

Really good actually. Specifically for drag and drop testing See More

Top Pro

Simple UI for text creation

HonestAhti's Experience

Very easy to use, simple to understand, and ramp up too. See More

Top Pro

Supports DnD testing

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score 5 · Answer 6

Windmill

Top Con

Less activity on Windmill codebase

Low activity on the main github repository shows that the community around it is shrinking and there's a decrease in developer activity. Usually this implies that the tool is in a not very good & updated state. The issue tracker also doesn't evoke confidence. See More

Top Pro

Firebug-Lite integration

Windmill comes integrated with Firebug-Lite, a lightweight version of the hugely popular debugging tool. See More

Harshal Rajkapu's Experience

Slow See More

Top Pro

Test recorder for all browser platforms

Windmill's test recorder allows recording test cases on any platform and all major browsers. See More

Top Pro

Proxy manipulation

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score 1 · Answer 7

Chrome DevTools

Top Pro

Device emulation for cross-device testing

Top Pro

Console for checking errors

Top Pro

No need for a separate tool

Chrome comes with DevTools baked in. So if Chrome is used for development and it fills the need, there's no need for a separate tool. See More

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score 1 · Answer 8

Firefox Developer Tools

Top Pro

Debugger

Debugger is useful and informative. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac

Top Pro

Page inspector

Particularly strong with inspecting the new CSS Grid layouts. See More

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score 6 · Answer 9

Watir

Top Con

Ruby only

Watir only uses Ruby as it's scripting language, so if you want to use another language other than Ruby or if you are not comfortable enough with it, it would be best to avoid Watir. See More

Top Pro

Free and open source

Watir is free and open source, released under the BSD license. See More

Top Con

Harder to jump to any other library that exposes the Selenium API

Watir introduces its own API which differs from the underlying selenium-webdriver. That means jumping to any other library which exposes the selenium-webdriver API such as Appium becomes harder as paradigms can't be transferred between the two. See More

Top Pro

Easy to learn for Ruby developers

Since the test scripts are written in ruby, it is easy to learn, especially for ruby developers. See More

Top Pro

Cross-browser

Watir webdriver is built on top of the WebDriver framework which can drive the most popular frameworks out there, making Watir perfectly usable with multiple browsers. See More

Top Pro

Easy to create and maintain web tests

Since the ruby language is highly concise, the tests created using Waitr are very easy to create & update. Thus the long term maintenance of the test suits consumes less overhead. See More

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score 1 · Answer 10

Puppeteer

Top Pro

Runs a real browser

Unlike the other options here, this is a real browser, just without the GUI parts. This means the quality of the test is much higher, and lets you do things like save to PDF or images. See More

Top Con

Not good for Cross Browser Tests

Since it only tests via Chromium, it won't help you test inconsistencies between browsers like Edge or Safari. There are projects to get around this, but they aren't mature. See More

Top Pro

Works great with modern node.js features

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score 6 · Answer 11

LambdaTest

TrustworthyRaetTawy's Experience

LambdaTest has made automation testing easy for us. See More

Zahra Khan's Experience

In our team, we are using a localhost testing feature to check the web apps on local before pushing them to production. LambdaTest allows us to perform automation tests faster. See More

AffableHaukim's Experience

LambdaTest offers an amazing selenium grid which really helped us to cut our test execution time to half by performing tests in parallel, which was really cool. See More

SpontaneousAuahituroa's Experience

A good tool with faster speed See More

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score 2 · Answer 12

Wallaby

Top Pro

Supports continuous testing

score 4 · Answer 13

Katalon Studio

Top Pro

Valuable Features

Top Con

Does not support nested shadow root DOM structure

Jack Taylor's Experience

Powerful and easy to use automation testing tool See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac

Top Pro

CI tools

CI tools available for e.g. Jenkins and Teamcity. See More

Top Con

Not for desktop applications

Currently Katalon Studio supports Web, Mobile, and API automation testing. See More

Orel Green's Experience

Has been using it more than 6 months See More

Top Pro

SOAP and REST

Supports both SOAP and REST testing. See More

Top Con

Heavy file to download

Top Con

No free version anymore

Despite promises made of "being free forever". See More

Top Con

Slow sometimes

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score 1 · Answer 14

Geb

Top Pro

Easy integration with build systems

It's very easy to integrate Geb with any build system. See More

Top Con

Low IDE support

There are not many IDEs that support Geb. See More

Top Pro

Asynchronous requests testing is a easier

Asynchronous web pages can easily be tested with Geb as it has built in, easy to use support for testing such operations. See More

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score 1 · Answer 15

TestProject

Answer 16

Lean FT

Top Pro

It helps move testing closer to the development cycle

It's very easy to go between UFT and LeanFT. Whoever is used with UFT can easily become very productive with LeanFT too, but with the added benefit of moving the testing closer to the development cycle. See More

Top Con

May have some stability issues

Since it's still a (relatively) new product, it may very well have some stability issues, which are sure to be fixed in the future though. See More

22 Options Considered

My Recommendation for Selenium

My Recommendation for Selenium

Actively supported

Requires installation of drivers

Cross-browser

The IDE for recording isn't too powerful

Cross-platform

Issues with locators

Ability to imitate a real user using the application

Integrates with any CI tool

Uses an approved WC3 standard - WebDriver

You can use the same IDE you use for coding to debug

Integrates well with existing testing frameworks

Support for many languages

Use the very minimum amount of code required to run

Easy to set preconditions for the tests

My Recommendation for Travis

My Recommendation for Travis

Supports more than a dozen languages

Only GitHub support

Easy to set up and configure

Github integration

My Recommendation for Blisk browser

My Recommendation for Blisk browser

Error notifier

Take a screenshots and records video

A browser made for development

Device emulation

My Recommendation for Cypress

My Recommendation for Cypress

You gotta pay to have full features

Multibrowser support

Does not work on Safari

They show you best practices

NO Cross Browser testing

Getting started is easy

My Recommendation for Testcafe

My Recommendation for Testcafe

Easy to use

A touch on the pricey side

Simple UI for text creation

Supports DnD testing

My Recommendation for Windmill

My Recommendation for Windmill

Less activity on Windmill codebase

Firebug-Lite integration

Test recorder for all browser platforms

Proxy manipulation

My Recommendation for Chrome DevTools

My Recommendation for Chrome DevTools

Device emulation for cross-device testing

Console for checking errors

No need for a separate tool

My Recommendation for Firefox Developer Tools

My Recommendation for Firefox Developer Tools

Debugger

Page inspector

My Recommendation for Watir

My Recommendation for Watir

Ruby only

Free and open source

Harder to jump to any other library that exposes the Selenium API

Easy to learn for Ruby developers

Cross-browser

Easy to create and maintain web tests

My Recommendation for Puppeteer

My Recommendation for Puppeteer

Runs a real browser

Not good for Cross Browser Tests

Works great with modern node.js features

My Recommendation for LambdaTest

My Recommendation for LambdaTest

My Recommendation for Wallaby

My Recommendation for Wallaby

Supports continuous testing

My Recommendation for Katalon Studio

My Recommendation for Katalon Studio

Valuable Features

Does not support nested shadow root DOM structure