Popular Windows Application Testing Tools
There are different types of windows application testing, which can be challenging to testers. Though the environment in which they are tested differs considerably, the basic quality assurance and testing principles remains same and applies to all. For both desktop and client-server based applications, the major testing categories include GUI, functionality, security, compatibility, load, and backend. Client-server applications are also tested for client-server interaction.
Here is three of the most popular windows application testing tools.
Rational Functional Tester
Rational Functional Tester is a very powerful and versatile automation tool for functional and regression testing developed by IBM. It provides testers an automated testing solution for GUI testing and data-driven testing. If your applications undergo continuous updating, this testing tool is the best choice. With this tool, you can record and playback a core batch of tests without manually going through all the actions every time.
The tool includes an easy to use record button to start automation and does not require advanced programming expertise to operate. It executes during machine time which saves the overall testing time. There is a wide range of applications that can be supported by RFT. Â RFT offers a better IDE (Integrated Development Environment), language choice, and API compared to other vendor automation solutions. It also supports integration with third-party testing tools.
It is a stress and database performance testing tool from Hewlett-Packard. It tests application performance and system behavior under specific loads. During performance testing, features such as speed, scalability, stability and reliability are tested. Pre-recorded or generated test scripts are used to simulate user activity for e.g. by generating interactions with the user interface. The performance of principal application components are recorded and later analyzed to produce reports for visualization. Load testing is the most important testing done under performance testing.
Quick Test Professional, abbreviated as QTP is a widely used tool in windows application testing. This is an automated tool best used for functional and regression testing. QTP works by identifying the objects in the application and performing desired operations on them to compare with expected outputs. There are two main advantages with QTP that makes it extremely user friendly. One is that, QTP uses VB as the scripting language to specify test procedures and to direct objects of the application. This makes it easy to understand. Another advantage is that the IDE of QTP features various functionalities which motivate the tester towards testing. It also includes keyword driven testing and data driven testing features.