Winrunner has got many competitors in market these days.
Every day some new software testing tool is being introduced that is giving
competition to the winrunner in one or the other way.
The below mentioned are
two such software testing tools:
1.
Silk test automation tool
2.
Robot testing frame work
In this article we shall discuss about all these three
software testing tools i.e., the winrunner, silk and robot and discuss what
advantages winrunner has got over these other two emerging software testing
tools in the market.
About Silk Test Automation Tool
First, we shall discuss about the silk test automation
tool.
- The silk testing tool is promising a bright future as the software
testing industry is moving towards a hi - tech end.
- Till now silk test
automation tool has proved to be good with many platforms and test management
tools and there is an insight that it may become much more powerful in the
coming days.
- The silk test tool facilitates the automated regression testing
and functional testing for the enterprise applications.
- The original developer of the silk test tool
was the Segue software which was later taken under the micro focus international
in the year of 2009.
- Silk test automation tool has got many clients to offer
unlike the winrunner which can support a few platforms only.
- The silk test tool
has got two very important features as mentioned below:
- Silk test
host: responsible for the storing all the source script files
- Silk test
agent: responsible for the translation of the script commands in to the
commands of GUI or we can say user actions.
About Robot Framework
Now let us see what robot frame work is.
- This testing frame
work is quite a generic one and has proved to be quite useful in the test
automation process.
- The robot frame work provides a very useful and efficient
testing frame work for the following:
- Acceptance
testing
- Acceptance
test driven development or ATDD
- It is very easy to use tabular test data syntax and this is what
makes it quite popular among the testers.
- This frame work is known to make use
of the key word driven testing approach.
- Its capabilities are extendible i.e.,
they can be extended using the test libraries which were implemented either
with java or with python.
- It also provides the users with the facility of
creating new key words of their convenience with the help of the same syntax
that is used in the creation of the test cases.
- It has following features:
- Creation of
test cases in a uniform way through the easy to use syntax.
- Data driven
approach
- Behaviour
driven approach
- Key word
driven approach
- Reads HTML
format
- Modular
architecture
- Has a simple
library API
- XML based
outputs and command line interface
- Remote library
interface
- Built in
support for variables
- Tagging
facility
Advantages of WinRunner over Silk Test and Robot
Though both of these software testing tools are quite
advanced, there are certain places where they lag behind when compared with
winrunner.
- The winrunner takes less time as compared to the silk test tool and
robot frame work.
- The tediousness is reduced in the winrunner but not in silk
test tool.
- The winrunner requires less investment in human resources contrary
to the case of the silk test tool and robot test frame work.
- Silk test tool and
robot frame work actually help in creating, organizing, managing and executing
the test cases but they offer less help when it comes to rooting out serious
bugs whereas the winrunner lays down a considerable focus in this regard.
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