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Choosing an Automated Testing Tool
This guide will help you find the best testing tool for your needs.
by Karen D. Schwartz
Posted September 29, 2003
Companies are turning to automated testing tools more often than ever before to ensure that their applications are working properly prior to deployment. That's particularly important today, because more applications are written for use on the Web—the most public of venues. If a browser-based application crashes or performs improperly, it can cause more problems than a smaller, local application.
But for many IT and quality assurance managers, the decision of which testing tools to use can cause confusion. The first decision is which category of tool to use—one that tests specific units of code before the application is fully combined, one that tests how well the code is working as envisioned, or one that tests how well the application performs under stress. And once that decision is made, the team must wade through a variety of choices in each category to determine which tool best meets its needs.
""Evaluating your needs will narrow down your short list very rapidly," says Graham Titterington, principal analyst at Ovum, a UK-based consulting firm. "An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) package tends to need special protocols and hooks, for example, and some tools will have them and some won't."
This guide will help you sort through some of the many options. Choose from:
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