Best for Testing ?

[jayender.vs]

Hi,
I am new to Automated testing.. what is the best book to know about the automated testing? and which is the best tool for automated testing ?

[indivam]

From a tools perspective, the definitive leader is Mercury Interactive. They have tools called Mercury WinRunner and Mercury Loadrunner.

[jackal11]

Software Automation tools are provided by many company IBM Mercury Borland Radview they also vary from what type of testing you perform.You can find all the details in www.software-automation.org in forums section.

[vishnusankar]

Post your testing doubt in this www.smackall.com/porting_testing.php in forum section.

[Yeorwned]

You should consider posting what you plan on testing to get a more specific answer as each application suite has its up's and down's.

[getzephyr]

Have you tried in google search ?

[grahamr (work)]

A place I worked at previously used WinRunner. Worked quite well: We had a lot of scripts that showed up specific bugs in the UI sections. These scripts we named after the bug that they matched (ID00354). All check-ins were marked with the bug they were supposed to fix. These were pulled out on the daily build and attached to the email that told the testing department (all two of them;-) what was fixed and needed checking. As a penalty to people who forgot to mark what was checked-in they were left to sort out broken builds until someone else checked in and forgot to mark their check in(s).

Also they were ran periodically (weekly, sometimes twice-weekly on run up to a release) for regression checking.

Tools: VC6, VSS6, WinRunner (3 iirc), CruiseControl, Ant and a bunch of CC & Ant plugins for automating. A PIII-733 with 512mb for nightly builds.

[harshadkhaladkar]

Hi,

Load runner is not a functional testing tool but it's a tool for performance testing. There are many available in market.

It depends on your company, projects which to buy.

[tossy]

I would suggest you to try this book, Automated Software Testing : Introduction, management and performance, Author:Elfriede Dustin Jeff Rashka John Paul. For the tool for automated testing, you may try TestPartner and QARun (www.compuware.com/products/qacenter/2271_ENG_HTML.htm), Robot (www.ibm.com) and test management tool named Zephyr (getzephyr.com)