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The Future of Test Automation Q. Is it OpenSource ?

Test Managers Forum – Jan 2008. The Future of Test Automation Q. Is it OpenSource ?. Facilitator - Duncan Brigginshaw Director, Odin Technology Ltd. The Rise of OpenSource. Development/Test Tools. CM – CVS,Subversion. IDE – Eclipse. Unit Testing – JUnit , NUnit. Jboss.

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The Future of Test Automation Q. Is it OpenSource ?

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  1. Test Managers Forum – Jan 2008 The Future of Test AutomationQ. Is it OpenSource? Facilitator - Duncan Brigginshaw Director, Odin Technology Ltd.

  2. The Rise of OpenSource Development/Test Tools CM – CVS,Subversion IDE – Eclipse Unit Testing – JUnit, NUnit Jboss Build Tools – Ant, Nant 34.8% IT managers polled have Jboss - BZ Research 2006 Apache, MySQL 50.8% Webservers Market Share (Netcraft 2007) 44% RDBMS Market share (EDC 2007) Linux, FreeBSD 37.6% Servers Market Share (IDC Projection 2008 )

  3. Current Commercial Tools • Current Market Leaders: • HP Mercury, IBM Rational, Compuware, Empirix, Borland • Others - AutomatedQA, Seapine, Original, Odin • Tool Architecture – • IDE with Language, Recorder, Visual Creation Tools, Wizards, Mapping tools, Logs, Execution

  4. Open Source Testing Tools • Current Available 70+ • Strongest Presence • Watir/Watin/Watij • Web Application Testing In Ruby/.NET/Java • Huge resource of supporting tools – Firewatir, Watir Recorder ++, Wet, Cubictest, Visual Studio • 58,000 Downloads (to 18th Jan 2008) • Selenium • Javascript browser tool – Tests in Tables or .NET, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby • Selenium IDE, Molybdenum, Selenium RC • www.opensourcetesting.org – 100,000+ Registered Users • Others • Sahi, PyWinAuto, Floyd, Frankenstein, AutoIT, Abbot/Costello • Load & Performance 35+ • WebLoad (RadView), Jmeter, OpenSTA

  5. Is OpenSource the Future for Test Automation?

  6. Skills - Resources • Commercial tools have a large base of Experts • How are tools “really” used? • Table/Data driven Frameworks (Homegrown and commercial) • Open source tools rely on a “Mainstream” Programming Language for scripting and development • C#, Java, Ruby, Python • Could a Developer be the Tool Expert?

  7. Support & Maintenance • OpenSource has support facilities • It’s OpenSource! • Fix your own issues – contribute • Adapt, extend, contribute new features • Could hiring an OpenSource Developer replace a commercial support function?

  8. Training • Surprisingly commercial training is available! • Watir and Junit/Nunit training courses: • www.trainingpages.com • Other Open Source training • http://www.opensourcetraining.co.uk/ • Training in C#, Ruby, Python, Java readily available • Frameworks tend to be written in house and training developed (or commercial frameworks)

  9. Supported Environments • Objection – Lack of Environment support and Integration (Test management, CM) • Who is part of a Web (Browser) or WebService based development project? • What are the others? • Most commercial tools have open APIs. • Build it! – It’s Opensource after all.

  10. Conclusions

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