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What are Regression Testing Tools?
Regression testing tools are software tools used to detect and fix any functional or technical issues with a program. They are helpful in ensuring that changes to an existing system do not create any unexpected problems. Regression testing tools help find bugs, verify the functionality of a feature, and test for proper integration between components. The primary purpose of regression testing is to ensure that bug fixes work properly, that new features function correctly, and that no new bugs have been introduced with the modification. Regression testing tools can be used for unit tests, end-to-end tests, integration tests, exploratory tests and more. Compare and read user reviews of the best Regression Testing tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Sahi Pro
Tyto Software Pvt Ltd
Sahi Pro is a no-code test automation tool for web, desktop, mobile, and SAP applications. Sahi Pro empowers business testers and automation engineers to streamline their test automation processes. Sahi Pro reduces the time, effort, and complexity involved in test automation, making it an ideal choice for various domains including automobile, healthcare and BFSI. Features: 1. Non-flaky Test Execution - For reliable test results and reduced time wastage in analysis of false-positives or false-negatives. 2. Supports Multiple Technologies - Achieve end to end automation across technologies. 3. No-code Automation - Enable non-technical business testers to automate. 4. Integrations - Integrate and work with your existing ecosystem. Testers using Sahi Pro easily automate complex tests without writing code. With Sahi Pro, you can achieve faster release cycles, improved software quality, & reduced costs. Our customers love Sahi Pro for its speed, flexibility, and ease of use.Starting Price: $1499/year/user -
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Global App Testing
Global App Testing
Global App Testing (GAT) enables tech teams to conduct testing across 189+ countries with a network of over 60,000 professional testers, using real devices and environments. By leveraging the GAT platform, you can streamline your testing process, boost release quality, and accelerate time-to-market while optimizing budget efficiency. The platform is fully integrated to seamlessly work with your existing DevOps or CI/CD tools. Whether you need ongoing QA support or additional resources to manage peak release cycles, GAT’s integration-driven approach allows you to manage your entire testing workflow—from test initiation to results analysis—without leaving your familiar tools like GitHub, Jira, and TestRail. With our integrated platform, both unscripted exploratory testing and scripted functional test execution can be embedded into your CI/CD and SDLC processes, ensuring perfect alignment with your automation testing tools. -
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MuukTest
MuukTest
Are bugs slipping through your QA process and frustrating your customers? Catching issues early shouldn’t mean overwhelming your team with time-consuming tests. With MuukTest’s AI-driven platform, growing engineering teams reach 95% end-to-end test coverage in just 3 months, delivering quality at speed. By leveraging AI, our QA experts rapidly design, manage, and maintain comprehensive E2E tests for web, mobile, and API applications on the MuukTest platform. Within 8 weeks, we deliver full regression coverage, followed by exploratory and negative testing to uncover hidden bugs and expand test scenarios. We also proactively identify and address flaky tests and false results to ensure the reliability of your tests. Testing early and often allows you to detect bugs in the early stages of your development lifecycle, reducing the burden of technical debt down the line.Starting Price: $4,300 per month -
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Testsigma
Testsigma
Testsigma is a low-code end-to-end software testing platform that works out of the box. It's built to enable modern Product teams to collaboratively plan, develop, execute, analyze, debug, and report on their automated testing—for websites, native Android and iOS apps, and APIs. Testsigma test scripts are code-agnostic. While the platform itself is built with Java, you can write test scripts in simple English or use the Test Recorder to generate airtight test scripts for websites and native mobile apps. You can also use the test recorder on your own device farm/grid or on Testsigma's built-in device lab on the cloud. The platform has built-in visual testing, parametrized or data-driven testing, 2FA testing, and more advanced features for easy test automation. Our AI automatically fixes unstable elements and test steps, identifies and isolates regression-affected scripts, and provides suggestions to help you find and fix test failures. -
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Testim
Tricentis
Testim is the fastest path to resilient end-to-end tests—codeless, coded or both. Testim lets you create amazingly stable codeless tests that leverage our AI, but also the flexibility to export tests as code. You can leverage Testim’s modern JavaScript API and your IDE to debug, customize or refactor tests. Store them in your version control system to keep them in sync with branches and run tests on every commit. Run parallel, cross-browser tests on our test cloud or Selenium-compatible grids while integrating with your CI and dev tools to run smoke tests on pull requests, end-to-end tests on release candidates, or full regression suites on a schedule. Customers like Microsoft, Salesforce, NetApp, Wix, and JFrog run millions of tests on Testim each month. Learn more on our website and sign up for your free account!Starting Price: $20,000 a year -
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aqua cloud
aqua cloud GmbH
aqua is an AI-powered advanced Test Management System designed to make the QA process painless. It is ideal for enterprises and SMBs across various sectors, although aqua was initially designed specifically for regulated industries like Fintech, MedTech and GovTech. aqua cloud helps to: - Organize custom testing processes and workflows, - Run testing scenarios of any complexity and scale, - Create extended sets of test data, - Ensure thorough insights with rich reporting capabilities and - Go from manual to automated testing smoothly. Additionally, it includes a unique feature called “Capture," which transforms the process of documenting and reproducing bugs into a 1-click action. aqua integrates with all the most popular issue trackers and automation tools like JIRA, Selenium, Jenkins and others. REST API is also available. aqua's streamlines testing and saves your QA team up to 70% of time, enabling you to deliver high-quality software and releases x2 faster! -
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CloudQA
Statnetics, LLC
CloudQA offers a powerful no-code/low code automation platform to speed up regression testing OR continuous monitoring of web applications. Type, click, and interact with your site as you normally would. Our recorder captures all of your actions as you navigate your site. No worrying about complexities like nested iFrames or dynamic elements. Intuitive and intelligent script maintenance - Manage tests/monitoring scripts with visual editor, as it creates a dynamic test model that is updated to reflect changes in your application. Automate complex steps with simple JavaScript & select variable data sets. With automation accelerators you require no setup, no infrastructure & no lock-in. Get high volume parallel, scalable & collaborative testing in cloud. Out of the box support for legacy & latest web technologies. See live execution of your tests, share summary & detailed reports with screenshots. Integrate with your tech stack and setup custom notifications.Starting Price: $99.00/month -
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Cerberus Testing
Cerberus Testing
Cerberus Testing is a low-code software testing automation enabling continuous testing at scale. Using the solution you can remove years of implementing an internal testing framework. The product enables you to quickly iterate through your testing lifecycle, from test repository, execution, reporting and analytics. The solution allows the collaboration of the teams from the use-cases definition to the test case execution on the variety of browsers, devices, apps and APIs. You can leverage your own or external robots infrastructure to execute your test at scale, enabling you to focus on your business value. It supports various integrations for speed of implementation such as Jenkins, Bitbucket, Slack, Kafka. It is available and maintained in open-source by various digital and retail players such as La Redoute, Decathlon, Adeo, and Norauto.Starting Price: €0 -
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Selenium
Software Freedom Conservancy
Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should) also be automated as well. If you want to create robust, browser-based regression automation suites and tests, scale and distribute scripts across many environments, then you want to use Selenium WebDriver, a collection of language specific bindings to drive a browser - the way it is meant to be driven. If you want to create quick bug reproduction scripts, create scripts to aid in automation-aided exploratory testing, then you want to use Selenium IDE; a Chrome and Firefox add-on that will do simple record-and-playback of interactions with the browser. If you want to scale by distributing and running tests on several machines and manage multiple environments from a central point. -
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JIterator
Windex Inc
JIterator Traffic Testing Platform is an automated testing solution that revolutionizes the way Java backend systems are tested. With its core functionalities centered around traffic recording and replay, it offers a streamlined approach to ensure system stability and accelerate development cycles. Key Capabilities • Traffic Recording and Replay: Capture and replay user request traffic with ease, ensuring thorough testing coverage. • Data Comparison: Quickly identify discrepancies through intelligent data comparison tools. • Automated Test Case Generation: Generate test cases automatically from recorded traffic, reducing manual effort. • Environment Simulation: Simulate and isolate testing environments for reliable and secure testing. Why Choose JIterator? • Efficiency: Streamline your testing process and reduce time-to-market. • Accuracy: Trust in the precision of automated data comparison and analysis.Starting Price: $14.95/month/user -
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TestingWhiz
TestingWhiz
Make test automation a breeze with TestingWhiz, an easy and intuitive end-to-end test automation solution for software, web, and mobile apps. Based on a robust FAST® Automation Engine, TestingWhiz has a codeless architecture that allows individual testers, test engineers and large or small automation teams to build test cases effortlessly. TestingWhiz' automated testing solutions include web UI, mobile, database, web services, cross browser, big data, regression, and data-driven test automation solutions.Starting Price: $149.00/month/user -
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OpenText UFT One
OpenText
Accelerate test automation with one intelligent functional testing tool for web, mobile, API and enterprise apps. Intelligent test automation with embedded AI-based capabilities that accelerates testing across desktop, web, mobile, mainframe, composite and packaged enterprise-grade apps. Automate and accelerate the end-to-end testing of 200+ enterprise apps, technologies and environments with a single intelligent testing tool. AI-powered intelligent test automation reduces functional test creation time and maintenance while boosting test coverage and resiliency. Test both the front-end functionality and back-end service parts of an application to increase test coverage across the UI and API. Test more in less time and achieve test execution at full velocity with parallel testing, cross-browser coverage, and cloud-based deployment. -
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Tosca
Tricentis
No-code, Automated Continuous Testing. Tricentis Tosca, the #1 Continuous Testing platform, accelerates testing with a script-less, no-code approach for end-to-end test automation. With support for over 160+ technologies and enterprise applications, Tosca provides resilient test automation for any use case. Learn how Tricentis Tosca can help you: - Deliver fast feedback for Agile and DevOps - Reduce regression testing time to minutes - Maximize reuse and maintainability - Gain clear insight into business risk - Integrate and extend existing test assets (HPE UFT, Selenium, SoapUI…) -
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MarathonITE
Jalian Systems
MarathonITE makes it easy to create GUI tests. You can quickly automate your functional tests and regression tests. MarathonITE has an open and flexible architecture based on open source projects like Marathon, Ruby and Selenium. MarathonITE makes creating, maintaining and executing automated test scripts easy. MarathonITE provides excellent ROI for your test teams. Some of the powerful features of MarathonITE include: Intelligent recording and replay, flexible and configurable object map, selenium/WebDriver bindings for Java™ applications. MarathonITE is a professional tool for creating and executing automated tests through GUI for applications developed using Java/Swing™, Java/Fx™ and Web technologies. MarathonITE provides Selenium/WebDriver bindings for Java application runtime to provide flexible and powerful API to interact with the applications and create GUI tests. Test automation is a combination of two activities – testing and software development.Starting Price: $ 1480 per 1 unit -
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SOAPSonar
Crosscheck Networks
Validate the functional behavior of APIs with client input simulations. Success criteria rules provide validation and regression testing of API behavior. Tests can be run on-demand or automated. Supports latest OpenAPI standards for automatically parsing OpenAPI documents and building test cases for all of the defined operations. Test authentication schemes including OAuth, SAML, PKI, Basic Auth, Amazon Auth, and Kerberos. Verify SSO tokens and cookies. Create behavior baselines and run regression tests to determine if any breakage or change of behavior occurs. Includes JSON and XML Diff capability. Test encryption and decryption of JSON, XML, REST, and SOAP message patterns. Simulate load from multiple virtual clients to measure and validate the performance criteria of the target APIs. Dynamic security and identity provide real world simulated inputs. Built-in support for AWSv4 signatures to authenticate to and test Amazon AWS APIs.Starting Price: $80/month -
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dbForge Unit Test
Devart
dbForge Unit Tests for SQL Server is a GUI-based tool available as an add-in for SQL Server Management Studio. This tool enables users to implement and automate unit testing directly within SSMS. Key Features: - Isolated unit testing to avoid affecting the actual database - Writing unit tests in T-SQL without additional tools - Simple installation and uninstalling of the tSQLt framework for writing unit tests - Performing multiple unit tests simultaneously - Integrating unit tests into DevOps processes - Running unit tests via the command line - Access to the collection of unit test examples - Safe refactoring in large databases The tool features a Test List Manager, a separate tab within the SSMS interface for creating, editing, managing, and running unit tests. This integration allows teams to stay within SSMS, eliminating the need for learning and switching between different tools, thus supporting a more comfortable environment and efficient performance.Starting Price: $169.95 -
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Diffblue Cover
Diffblue
Diffblue Cover analyzes your existing Java program and writes unit regression tests that reflect the current behavior of the code. The CLI tool works 100% autonomously, configuring itself from your Maven or Gradle environment. By bringing automation to the test-writing process, the CLI tool provides a speed boost for organizations that are working towards achieving DevOps goals like CI/CD. Since it fits into a CI pipeline, the CLI tool protects the whole codebase from regressions by shifting testing left. Diffblue Cover's unit regression tests run fast and verify new code changes immediately, helping users detect undesirable changes in the code’s behavior as early as possible, when they're the quickest, easiest, and cheapest to fix. And tests are automatically maintained, saving teams even more time.Starting Price: Free -
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Original Software
Original Software
For over 25 years, our testing platform has empowered businesses to enhance software quality with ease. Original Software provides a centralized solution for automating, capturing, and managing tests across your ERP and any integrated applications—right out of the box. With pre-built test case templates and a fully code-free approach, it’s incredibly user-friendly, enabling business users to execute tests effortlessly without any technical expertise. Ditch spreadsheets and screenshots—Original Software delivers instant efficiencies, typically cutting testing time by 50%. Plus, when you're ready to elevate your process, AI-powered test automation allows you to build a fully automated regression suite without writing a single line of code. Whether you’re working with on-premise, cloud-based, custom, or green screen applications, Original Software seamlessly supports testing across all environments. No hassle, just reliable results.Starting Price: $4000.00/one-time/user -
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Ranorex Studio
Ranorex
Empower everyone on the team to perform robust automated testing on desktop, web and mobile applications, regardless of their experience with functional test automation tools. Ranorex Studio is an all-in-one solution that includes tools for codeless automation as well as a full IDE. With our industry-leading object recognition and shareable object repository, Ranorex Studio makes it possible to automate GUI testing for even the most challenging interfaces, from legacy applications to the latest web and mobile technologies. Ranorex Studio supports cross-browser testing with built-in Selenium WebDriver integration. Perform effortless data-driven testing using CSV files, Excel spreadsheets or SQL database files as input. Ranorex Studio also supports keyword-driven testing: our tools for collaboration allow test automation engineers to build reusable code modules and share them with the team. Download our free 30-day trial for a risk-free start to test automation.Starting Price: $3,590 for single-user license -
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TestMace
TestMace
Test Mace is a modern powerful crossplatform tool for working with an API and creating automated API tests. Create requests and scenarios using variables, authentication, autocomplete feature and syntax highlighting. Build complex scenarios using our convenient and simple UI interface. Perform full regression testing with just one click. Assign a request result to a variable and get access from other nodes. Save authorization tokens, response headers or parts of a response body. Run your scenarios in different environment contexts. Use this to organize development, stage and production environments. Embedded authentication methods will help you to do authentication if you use one of the most popular types. You can use quick share feature to share your request with colleagues. Just press a button to copy a specific node's url. All that you need now is to send this url to your teammate.Starting Price: $4 per month -
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RemoteLaunch
inflectra
Extend your SpiraTest installation with support for automated regression testing. Our RemoteLaunch application will connect to your automated testing tools and allow SpiraTest to orchestrate your testing activities, both manual and automated in one place. Automated test scripts are a valuable way to perform regression testing on applications to ensure that new features or bug fixes don’t break existing functionality. They typically supplement manual testing which is more efficient at the testing of new features and capabilities. For complete test coverage you need to perform the same automated tests across a complete spectrum of platforms, browsers, devices and environments. Using RemoteLaunch® with SpiraTest® or SpiraTeam® allows you to manage the automated testing process. Track the automated tests against the project’s requirements Have a holistic view of manual and automated testing.Starting Price: $199.99 per year -
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Squish
Qt Group
Squish is the tool of choice for several thousand companies worldwide to automate the functional regression tests and system tests of their graphical user interface (GUIs) and human machine interfaces (HMIs). The Squish GUI testing tool, a 100% cross-platform tool, features. Automated cross-browser GUI testing for Web and HTML5 applications on desktop, mobile and embedded platforms. Automated GUI Testing for native macOS applications including support for embedded Webkit content.Starting Price: €82.50 per user per month -
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Serenity BDD
Serenity BDD
Serenity BDD helps you write cleaner and more maintainable automated acceptance and regression tests faster. Serenity also uses the test results to produce illustrated, narrative reports that document and describe what your application does and how it works. Serenity tells you not only what tests have been executed, but more importantly, what requirements have been tested. One key advantage of using Serenity BDD is that you do not have to invest time in building and maintaining your own automation framework. The aim of Serenity is to make it easy to quickly write well-structured, maintainable automated acceptance criteria, using your favourite BDD or conventional testing library. You can work with Behaviour-Driven-Development tools like Cucumber or JBehave, or simply use JUnit. You can integrate with requirements stored in an external source (such as JIRA or any other test cases management tool), or just use a simple directory-based approach to organise your requirements.Starting Price: Free -
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iMacros
Progress
The world's most popular web automation, data extraction, and web testing solution, now with Chromium browser technology for supporting all modern websites. Including sites that use dialog boxes, Javascript, Flash, Flex, Java, and AJAX. Perform in-browser testing across Chrome and Firefox. Write to standard file formats or use the API to save directly to a database. iMacros web automation software works with every website to make it easy for you to record and replay repetitious work. Automate tasks across Chrome and Firefox. There is no new scripting language to learn, allowing you to easily record and replay actions on each browser, so even the most complex tasks can be automated. Automate functional, performance, and regression testing across modern websites and capture exact web page response times. Schedule macros to run periodically against your production website to ensure it is up and running and behaving exactly as you expect.Starting Price: $99 per month -
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JCov
OpenJDK
The JCov open-source project is used to gather quality metrics associated with the production of test suites. JCov is being opened in order to facilitate the practice of verifying test execution of regression tests in OpenJDK development. The main motivation behind JCov is the transparency of test coverage metrics. The advantage to promoting standard coverage based on JCov is that OpenJDK developers will be able to use a code coverage tool that stays in the 'lock step' with Java language and VM developments. JCov is a pure java implementation of a code coverage tool that provides a means to measure and analyze dynamic code coverage of Java programs. JCov provides functionality to collect method, linear block, and branch coverage, as well as show uncovered execution paths. It is also able to show a program's source code annotated with coverage information. From a testing perspective, JCov is most useful to determine execution paths.Starting Price: Free -
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Reflect
Reflect
Reflect makes regression tests easy to create and painless to maintain. High growth teams use Reflect to catch bugs without slowing down development velocity. Writing end-to-end tests shouldn't be a time-consuming process. Instead of creating tests in a code editor, with Reflect the browser is the interface. Creating a test is as simple as entering a URL and using your web app. Reflect records your actions and turns them into a repeatable test that you can run as often as you'd like. No installation required. With other website automation software, visual regressions (i.e. bugs in the UI that don't modify the functionality of the site) cannot be detected. That's because most automation tools operate at a level below how users interact with your application.Starting Price: $100 per month -
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Watir
Watir
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. It requires Ruby 2.6+ and Selenium 4.0 which was just released last week. It’s been a long road since Watir 6.0 was released almost 5 years ago. That version was a substantial reenvision of Watir’s default approach to automation, especially as it relates to Selenium. It was designed to combine the original philosophy of Watir with the power of Selenium. Watir 7 is mostly just a much more stable and performant implementation of that vision. When developing a gem intended to be used with Watir, you can run your code with WatirSpec to make sure that requiring your code does not break something else in Watir. Watir code is tested on Linux with the latest versions of supported browsers and all active Ruby versions. Watir code is run through Coveralls to encourage PRs to ensure all paths in their code have tests associated with them.Starting Price: Free -
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Zoho QEngine
Zoho
Manage all test cases across platforms in one place, with Zoho QEngine's no-code, low-code as well manual coding features. Create, develop, manage and execute automated functional tests while collaborating with your team. Zoho QEngine's test automation software is everything you need to run your entire testing lifecycle. Zoho QEngine comes equipped to test web applications across browsers. With minimal coding/no-code build and manage automated test cases for web applications 10X faster. Automated testing for web applications is made simple with Zoho QEngine. With functionalities such as mobile emulators and simulators, Appium compatibility, and real devices Zoho QEngine ensures your test cases for mobile meets quality standards. Test, assert, manage, and automate all types of API requests and responses with Zoho QEngine's intuitive cloud-based API testing software. With interoperability API testing, Zoho QEngine has the functionalities you seek in a testing tool.Starting Price: $101.57 per month -
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API Swan
API Swan
Elevate your development process with our robust API solution, and ensure stability, performance, and reliability in every release. Seamless Integration with CI/CD, forging a cohesive development pipeline. API Swan is driven by the mission to forge a software testing platform that stands as the pinnacle of affordability and reliability, designed expressly for engineering teams navigating the early-growth stage startup terrain. Ship products at 10x velocity, and catch more bugs, effortlessly. 24/7 application monitoring for uninterrupted performance. Auto-generates regression tests from network traffic. Cutting-edge automated test case design, seamlessly entwined within your workflow. Effortless automatic documentation of APIs and schemas, saving precious time.Starting Price: $89 per month -
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Usetrace
Usetrace
Usetrace is a software testing automation platform that provides performance monitoring, load testing, and regression testing for small and mid-sized businesses. This code-free editor is used by web product development teams to build robust test cases across multiple browsers. Usetrace also enables production teams to seamlessly monitor critical business processes and ensures the effective functioning of a web app or website with its on-demand testing features. Additional features provided by Usetrace include test reporting, project management and collaboration, responsive testing, traces editor, and synchronization and waiting.Starting Price: $49 per month
Guide to Regression Testing Tools
Regression testing tools are an essential part of software testing that helps to ensure the quality and functionality of a system. Regression testing is used to validate any modifications made to the application or system, as well as detect new issues that weren’t present before. This type of testing can help increase productivity by finding bugs in old code and leveraging automation to improve accuracy and speed.
Regression testing tools come in several different varieties, such as open source, commercial, and automation solutions. Open source tools are often free and customizable for specific tasks, while commercial products offer a more complete solution with additional features like compatibility tests across various platforms. Automation solutions provide repeatable scripts that can be used over multiple iterations of changes and updates to save time.
In addition to these popular regression testing tools there are specialized options available specifically geared toward mobile environments including Calabash Framework, Robolectric Framework, Appium, Frank Framework, etc. These frameworks offer native support for both iOS & Android devices along with extensive mobile device emulators & simulators similar to those provided via web-based systems.
Overall, regression testing is an important aspect of software development that should not be neglected due to its ability to quickly identify issues in the existing code base. With the right combination of manual & automated approaches along with access to reliable regression testing tools, it is possible to achieve high-quality software release cycles efficiently without compromising on stability & performance standards.
Features Provided by Regression Testing Tools
- Test Case Generation: Regression testing tools are used to generate test cases which help identify any errors or issues present in the application. Test cases can be created manually, generated automatically, or a combination of both. They are designed to ensure that any changes made to the application do not break existing functionality.
- Automated Execution: There is no need for manual intervention when running regression tests as it can be automated with a regression testing tool. It will execute all the tests in an efficient manner and save time and effort for testers. It also eliminates the possibility of human error while creating/executing test cases.
- Data-Driven Testing: Regression testing tools allow users to implement data-driven testing, which helps reduce test execution time by providing easy access to multiple sets of data points for multiple tests without having to manually enter each one into the test case. The automation also ensures accuracy and consistency across different input datasets.
- Coverage Tracking: With a regression testing tool, you can track coverage of your tests with features such as code-coverage tracking and next step analysis which makes it easier to determine whether all parts of the application have been tested adequately during a regression cycle. This helps you ensure that all use cases have been exercised completely before releasing the software into production.
- Reporting & Analysis: Regression testing tools provide detailed reports and visualizations that give insights into how well your tests are performing against various metrics such as pass/fail, coverage, etc., so that you can quickly identify where improvements need to be made in terms of test accuracy and reliability. These reports also let you analyze trends over time for better decision making around product releases.
What Are the Different Types of Regression Testing Tools?
- Automated Regression Testing Tools: These tools allow users to create, execute, and maintain test scripts that can be used to automate the process of regression testing. They help ensure that a software product meets its functional requirements and any changes made are reflected accurately.
- Static Analysis Tools: Static analysis tools are used to increase the quality and reliability of a software system by detecting defects in source code prior to or during runtime. It also helps teams reduce their total cost of ownership by catching potential issues in earlier stages of development.
- Test Management Tools: Test management tools provide powerful insight into the progress and success of regression test suites over time. This includes intricate reporting capabilities for deeper understanding into the nature of tests, which can be invaluable when it comes to identifying areas for improvement or bottlenecks in performance.
- Load Testing Tools: Load testing (or stress testing) is a type of performance testing used to determine how many concurrent users a given system can support before becoming overloaded or non-responsive. These automated load testing tools simulate high levels of user traffic on large parts or an entire application at once in order to determine if the system holds up under pressure.
- Visual Regression Testing Tools: Visual regression testing involves comparing two versions (or snapshots) of an interface side-by-side in order to identify any visual discrepancies between them such as size, color, font weight, etc. These specialized automated image comparison tools take screenshots from different versions and compare them for accuracy, making sure design elements remain consistent across releases.
Benefits of Using Regression Testing Tools
- Automation: Regression testing tools automate the process of running tests, eliminating the need to manually input and check test results. This can save time and ensure that tests are performed with consistent accuracy.
- Cost Savings: Automating regression testing can reduce costs associated with manual testing processes, such as salaries for testers and overhead associated with hardware.
- Improved Quality Assurance: Regression testing tools allow testers to quickly identify bugs in existing code and fix them before they become serious problems. This improves the quality assurance process by reducing errors.
- Increased Efficiency: By automating tests, regression testing tools can increase overall efficiency in a software's development cycle. This can lead to faster release cycles and improved customer satisfaction.
- Increased Coverage: With automated regression testing, developers can define more comprehensive test scenarios that can cover a wider range of scenarios than manual tests typically do. This can lead to fewer bugs and improved code coverage.
- Traceability: Regression testing tools allow for clear traceability of test results, enabling developers to quickly identify which tests have been run and what the results were. This makes debugging easier and helps ensure accurate results.
What Types of Users Use Regression Testing Tools?
- Developers: Developers use regression testing tools to ensure that any changes they make to a piece of software do not break existing functionality or introduce new bugs.
- Quality Assurance Analysts: Quality Assurance Analysts use regression testing tools to verify that any changes made by developers have not caused any unexpected outcomes or unintended effects.
- Product Managers: Product Managers use regression testing tools to ensure the software meets the product specifications and customer requirements.
- Software Testers: Software Testers rely on regression testing tools to verify the accuracy and reliability of new features and updates added to the software. They also use these tools for performance tuning tests.
- Automated Test Engineers: Automated Test Engineers employ regression testing tools in order to automate test cases, allowing them to effortlessly repeat test cycles without having to manually run each test again and again.
- Data Scientists: Data Scientists use regression testing tools for understanding relationships between different variables in data sets, as well as for performing predictive analytics.
- Business Analysts: Business Analysts use regression testing tools to determine the effects of changes in one variable on other variables, in order to gain insights into how different factors interact with each other.
- Support Technicians: Support Technicians use regression testing tools to troubleshoot and identify bugs in the software, as well as for replicating customer issues.
- IT Professionals: IT Professionals can use regression testing tools to assist in the efficient running of the software environment, from conducting performance tests to helping improve scalability.
How Much Do Regression Testing Tools Cost?
Regression testing tools can range in cost depending on the features and capabilities that are needed. Generally, free basic tools may be available, but for more advanced options prices usually start in the range of $50 - $100. As the features and abilities increase, so will the price. For example, some top-tier regression testing tools can cost up to several thousand dollars for an organization's team or enterprise-wide license. Additionally, many providers offer various levels of subscription plans with different feature sets and pricing for monthly or annual use.
The most important factor to consider when selecting a regression testing tool is whether it meets your specific needs in terms of functionality and user experience. It is always recommended to compare a few different products before making a purchase decision as each tool has its own strengths and weaknesses.
What Software Do Regression Testing Tools Integrate With?
Regression testing tools can integrate with many types of software, including bug tracking systems, test management tools, and automation testing frameworks. Bug tracking systems provide teams with the ability to track and record defects found during regression testing. Test management tools enable automated tracking of test activities during regression testing, such as setting up a regression test suite and executing tests. Automation testing frameworks allow teams to automate repetitive tasks associated with running tests for regression purposes. Each of these types of software can integrate with regression testing tools to provide efficient and comprehensive support for the testing process.
Recent Trends Related to Regression Testing Tools
- Automation: Regression testing tools are becoming increasingly automated, allowing teams to quickly and easily analyze test results.
- Cloud Computing: Many regression testing tools are now leveraging cloud computing for better scalability and reliability.
- Integration: Regression testing tools can be used in conjunction with other software development-related platforms such as integrated development environment (IDE) and version control systems (VCS).
- Test Data Generation: Regression testing tools are utilizing artificial intelligence techniques to generate test data. This allows developers to create larger and more comprehensive tests than by manual methods.
- Reporting & Metrics Tracking: Advanced reporting features in most regression testing tools enable teams to track the progress of their test cycles more easily than ever before.
- Collaboration Capabilities: Many regression testing tools now allow for enhanced collaboration across distributed teams, making it easier than ever for remote workers to contribute towards the quality assurance process.
- Customizability & Extensibility: Modern regression testing tools are highly adaptable and extensible, allowing teams to customize their tests according to their specific needs.
- Advanced Features: Regression testing tools are now incorporating various other advanced features such as replayability, coverage analysis, and application monitoring.
How To Pick the Right Regression Testing Tool
Selecting the right regression testing tools for a project depends on several factors.
First, consider what type of application is being tested. Are you testing web-based applications or a desktop application? Is the application data-driven or state-driven? Knowing the type of application you are working with will help in deciding which tool to choose.
Next, consider what level of complexity is required for the tests. Does your team need basic functional tests or do they need more advanced features like test automation and integration with other test tools? The level of complexity will also determine the cost associated with the tool as well as the skill set needed to use it properly.
Thirdly, be sure to research what support options are available from the vendor. Do they offer customer service and technical support? What kind of documentation are they providing? Are there any user forums available where questions can be asked and answered quickly? Having access to good customer service is important if any issues arise while using a particular tool.
Finally, decide on a budget for purchasing regression testing tools. This will help narrow down your options and make it easier to select one that meets your specific needs without overshooting your budget.
By taking each of these considerations into account when selecting regression testing tools, teams can find an appropriate solution that meets their requirements while staying within their desired budget range. Use the comparison engine on this page to help you compare regression testing tools by their features, prices, user reviews, and more.