Test Automation Framework

SeLite (Selenium+SQLite) enables automated database-driven navigation of web applications. It serves for testing of web applications, and for other purposes, such as web-based administration or data mining/manipulation. It keeps isolated test data. It improves productivity of Selenium IDE by allowing tests to be expressive, structured, configurable and reusable. That helps your test scripts to be more maintainable and shareable.

Crucible is a collaborative code review application. It is a Web-based application primarily aimed at the enterprise, and certain features that enable peer review of a codebase may be considered enterprise social software. Crucible is particularly tailored to distributed teams, and facilitates asynchronous review and commenting on code. Crucible also integrates with popular source control tools, such as Git and Subversion.Code reviews = quality code. Review code, discuss changes, share knowledge, and identify defects with Crucible's flexible review workflow. It's code review made easy for Subversion, CVS, Perforce, and more.

JWebUnit is a Java framework that facilitates creation of acceptance tests for web applications. It evolved from a project where we were using HttpUnit and JUnit to create acceptance tests. As the tests were being written, they were continuously refactored to remove duplication and other bad smells in the test code. JWebUnit is the result of these refactorings. It wraps existing testing frameworks such as HtmlUnit and Selenium with a unified, simple testing interface to allow you to quickly test the correctness of your web applications.

TextTest is an application-independent tool for text-based functional testing. This means running a batch-mode binary in lots of different ways, and using the text output produced as a means of controlling the behavior of that application. 
We are warm adherents of Agile Development practices, and practitioners of Extreme Programming. We believe that the Agile movement has improved the software quality situation a great deal, by moving testing to the center of the development process and making developers directly responsible for verifying the quality of their code.

Anteater is a testing framework designed around Ant, from the Apache Jakarta Project. It provides an easy way to write tests for checking the functionality of a Web application or of an XML Web service. It can test either HTTP requests or replies in various sophisticated ways. The ability to wait for incoming HTTP messages is unique to Anteater, which makes it especially useful when building tests for applications that use high level SOAP-based communication and asynchronous SOAP messages. Anteater provides XML and text logging support and the ability to render the logs into HTML reports.

Micro is a lightweight, xUnit style, Open Source AutoIt unit testing framework written in AutoIt, for AutoIt. Micro using a simple and natural unit testing syntax. The goal of Micro is to be easy to use and simple to integrate with continuous integration services. Micro provides a simple assert based system for testing the fixtures of your code.

Geb is a browser automation solution. It brings together the power of WebDriver, the elegance of jQuery content selection, the robustness of Page Object modelling and the expressiveness of the Groovy language. It can be used for scripting, scraping and general automation — or equally as a functional/web/acceptance testing solution via integration with testing frameworks such as Spock, JUnit & TestNG. Geb provides integration modules for popular testing frameworks such as Spock, JUnit, TestNG and Cucumber (via Cuke4Duke). While Geb works great with all of these frameworks, it really shines with Spock. Spock is an innovative testing framework that is a great match for using with Geb.

The Android SDK provides the API libraries and developer tools necessary to build, test, and debug apps for Android. The SDK tools are installed with the SDK starter package and are periodically updated. The SDK tools are required if you are developing Android applications. The most important SDK tools include the Android SDK Manager (android sdk), the AVD Manager (android avd) the emulator (emulator), and the Dalvik Debug Monitor Server (ddms). A short summary of some frequently-used SDK tools is provided below.

Jelly is a tool for turning XML into executable code. Jelly is a Java and XML based scripting and processing engine. Jelly can be used as a more flexible and powerful front end to Ant such as in the Maven project, as a testing framework such as JellyUnit, in an intergration or workflow system such as werkflow or as a page templating system inside engines like Cocoon.

Cactus is a simple test framework for unit testing server-side java code . It uses JUnit and extends it. Cactus implements an in-container strategy, meaning that tests are executed inside the container.The Cactus Ecosystem is made of several components:

• The Cactus Framework: It is the engine that provides the API to write Cactus tests.
• The Cactus Integration Modules: They are front ends and frameworks that provide easy ways of using the Cactus Framework (Ant scripts, Eclipse plugin, Maven plugin, ...).
• The Cactus Samples: They are simple projects that demonstrate how to write Cactus tests and how to use some of the Integration Modules.  

HttpUnit emulates the relevant portions of browser behavior, including form submission, JavaScript, basic http authentication, cookies and automatic page redirection, and allows Java test code to examine returned pages either as text, an XML DOM, or containers of forms, tables, and links. When combined with a framework such as JUnit, it is fairly easy to write tests that very quickly verify the functioning of a web site.

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Apache Ant is a Java library and command-line tool whose mission is to drive processes described in build files as targets and extension points dependent upon each other. The main known usage of Ant is the build of Java applications. Ant supplies a number of built-in tasks allowing to compile, assemble, test and run Java applications. Ant can also be used effectively to build non Java applications, for instance C or C++ applications. More generally, Ant can be used to pilot any type of process which can be described in terms of targets and tasks. Ant is written in Java. Users of Ant can develop their own "antlibs" containing Ant tasks and types, and are offered a large number of ready-made commercial or open-source "antlibs".

Expect is a tool for automating interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc. Expect is a program to automate interactions with programs that expose a text terminal interface. Expect uses pseudo terminals (Unix) or emulates a console (Windows), starts the target program, and then communicates with it, via the terminal or console interface. Tk, another Tcl extension, can be used to provide a GUI.

TestCast is a Test Automation Platform based on standardized testing language TTCN. You can develop, execute and analyse tests regardless of your implementation domain, operating system or technology used. TestCast is ideal for incremental development. Testing of a single element can be achieved without an  entire working system. Users can test specific systems and features separately as well the entire system as whole. TestCast is also capable of testing individual hardware or software element embedded in a larger system. TestCast is one of the two TTCN-3 test tools on the market that have passed the first TTCN-3 plugtest organized by European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI) in 2009. 

UISpec4J is an Open Source functional and/or unit testing library for Swing-based Java applications, built on top of JUnit and TestNG. UISpec4J's APIs are designed to hide as much as possible the complexity of Swing, resulting in easy to write and easy to read test scripts. This is especially true when comparing UISpec4J tests with those produced using Swing or low-level, event-based testing libraries.

Sahi is a free, open source tool for automation of web application testing.
Sahi is very tester friendly and allows easy automation of even complex web 2.0 applications with lots of AJAX content. With an excellent recorder, smart object identification, simple scripting, automatic waits and inbuilt reports, Sahi gives the tester a powerful yet simple tool to accomplish testing across various browser and OS combinations.
Sahi works on Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera etc. on Windows, Mac and Linux. (Sahi works on any browser which supports a proxy and executes Javascript. This means it supports all browsers since IE6.)

XHTMLUnit helps to generate some XHTML within the Java classes and does not use other web presentation technology like JSPs or XSLT. XHTML is HTML with a few changes and added features - All tags are in lower case & all tags have to be balanced, i.e. every opening tag must have a corresponding closing tag or use the short form for a tag without. The advantage of using XHTML as opposed to HTML is basically that it can be easily validated using the appropriate DTD. XHTMLUnit builds on XMLUnit and provides convenience code and configuration to facilitate testing the generation of XHTML, both of complete pages and of individual parts of a page.

Mocha is a feature-rich JavaScript test framework running on Node.js and the browser, making asynchronous testing simple and fun. Mocha tests run serially, allowing for flexible and accurate reporting, while mapping uncaught exceptions to the correct test cases.

QUnit is a JavaScript unit testing framework. While heavily used by the jQuery Project for testing jQuery, jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile, it is a generic framework to test any JavaScript code. It supports server-side (e.g. node.js) and client-side environments. QUnit's assertion methods follow the CommonJS unit testing specification, which itself was influenced to some degree by QUnit. It's used by the jQuery, jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile projects and is capable of testing any generic JavaScript code, including itself!