Top 10 Free Automation Software That Will Make Your Life Easier

Selenium

Selenium uses Web Driver for Chrome in order to test commands and process the web pages to get to the data you need.

It is compatible with almost all programming languages available and it gives you a wide variety of commands and options, which you can manipulate.

This is my absolute favorite and I have written about it so many times now. I combine it with Python andWeb Scraping in order to get the best results possible.

If you want to learn more about Selenium and its functions check out: Top 25 Selenium Functions That Will Make You Pro In Web Scraping .

Also If you want a more advanced usage check out: How to make an Analysis Tool with Python .

Beautiful Soup

Beautiful Soup is a python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files. It creates data parse trees in order to get data easily.

After Selenium, this is also one of my favorites, just because of how easy it is to use it and how powerful it is.

Here is also an example usage for Beautiful Soup: How to Save Money with Python .

Robotium

Robotium is a free software that lets you test Android-based applications. It is a test automation framework, which supports many different areas of testing, which include gray box UI testing, system testing, and user acceptance testing for both native and hybrid android based applications.

From their GitHub repository :

Robotium is an Android test automation framework that has full support for native and hybrid applications. Robotium makes it easy to write powerful and robust automatic black-box UI tests for Android applications. With the support of Robotium, test case developers can write function, system and user acceptance test scenarios, spanning multiple Android activities.

Watir

Watir is a free Ruby library that lets you do automated testing like clicking, filling out forms, etc.

Name is an acronym that comes from W eb A pplication T esting i n R uby.

From their website :

An open source Ruby library for automating tests. Watir interacts with a browser the same way people do: clicking links, filling out forms and validating text.

Apache JMeter

Apache JMeter is a free to use Java desktop app which is mainly used for web applications load testing. It also supports limited functional and unit testing.

It has many different options like dynamic reporting, portability, powerful Test IDE, and supports different types of applications, shell scripts, Java objects, and databases.

From their website :

Here is also a list of tutorials that can help you get started on JMeter:

• Distributed Testing
• Recording Tests
• JUnit Sampler
• Access Log Sampler
• Extending JMeter

Katalon

Katalon is open-source software for web and mobile automation testing. It is very straightforward and supports cross-platform usage. Besides that, it has amazing JIRA implementation.

From their website :

Katalon helps you quickly generate automated tests cross-platform. Seamlessly integrate automated tests into your CI/CD pipeline. Centralized reports and quality insights with Katalon TestOps.

Maven

Maven is a free tool used for automation testing for Java projects.

I use Maven myself pretty often and I have to say that is a pretty fine piece of software.

From their website :

Maven is basically an open source build automation tool mainly intended for java projects. We have the maven plugins available for testing. The “surefire:test” goal provided by the plugin is associated with a testing phase of software management lifecycle.

Selendroid

It is a free automation framework for Android applications and mobile web. It supports scaling and parallel testing.

Selendroid is a free automation framework for Android and web apps.

The cool thing about Selendroid is that it supports parallel testing and scaling.

From their website :

Selendroid is a test automation framework which drives off the UI of Android native and hybrid applications (apps) and the mobile web. Tests are written using the Selenium 2 client API — that’s it!

Linux Desktop Testing Project

LDTP is a free tool mainly aimed at GUI testing with a wide variety of languages ( Python , Java , Ruby, Perl, C#, VB.NET, PowerShell , Clojure )

From their website :

The GNU/Linux Desktop (GUI Application) Testing Project (GNU LDTP) aimed at producing high quality test automation framework and cutting-edge tools that can be used to test and improve the GNU/Linux or Solaris desktops. It uses the Accessibility libraries to discover through the application’s user interface.

OpenTest

OpenTest is a free tool for web, mobile apps, and APIs.

From their websites :

OpenTest is a free and open source functional test automation framework for web applications, mobile apps and APIs, built for scalability and extensibility, with a focus on enabling the mainstream test automation practices. OpenTest is a feature-reach tool that requires little to no coding skills and can handle virtually any type of functional test automation project.