Test Managers Forum Jan 2008 THE FUTURE

Test Managers Forum – Jan 2008 THE FUTURE OF TEST AUTOMATION Q. IS IT OPENSOURCE? Facilitator - Duncan Brigginshaw Director, Odin Technology Ltd.

The Rise of Open. Source Development/Test Tools CM – CVS, Subversion IDE – Eclipse Jboss Unit Testing – JUnit, NUnit Applications 34. 8% IT managers polled have Jboss - BZ Research 2006 Middleware Apache, My. SQL 50. 8% Webservers Market Share (Netcraft 2007) 44% RDBMS Market share (EDC 2007) Linux, Free. BSD 37. 6% Servers Market Share (IDC Projection 2008 ) Servers Operating Systems Build Tools – Ant, Nant

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

Open Source Testing Tools Current Available 70+ Strongest Presence Watir/Watin/Watij 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 Web Application Testing In Ruby/. NET/Java Huge resource of supporting tools – Firewatir, Watir Recorder ++, Wet, Cubictest, Visual Studio 58, 000 Downloads (to 18 th Jan 2008) Sahi, Py. Win. Auto, Floyd, Frankenstein, Auto. IT, Abbot/Costello Load & Performance 35+ Web. Load (Rad. View), Jmeter, Open. STA

Is Open. Source the Future for Test Automation?

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?

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

Training Surprisingly commercial training is available! Watir and Junit/Nunit training courses: Other Open Source training www. trainingpages. com 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)

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

Conclusions