Compare the Top Test Automation Frameworks in the UK as of April 2025

What are Test Automation Frameworks in the UK?

Test automation frameworks are sets of tools, components, and practices that automate the process of testing software applications. These frameworks enable testers to write, execute, and manage test scripts for various types of software testing, including functional, regression, load, and performance testing. They often provide features such as reusable test scripts, integration with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools, reporting, and test result tracking. Test automation frameworks help improve test efficiency, reduce manual errors, and speed up the overall testing process, especially in large and complex software environments. Compare and read user reviews of the best Test Automation Frameworks in the UK currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Sahi Pro

    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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    TAST

    TAST

    SIPSA

    TAST, Test Automation System Tool is a comprehensive cloud test automation framework that enables businesses to maximize their test automation across the complete testing process from an End User´s perspective. It is easy to use and its graphical interface defines the automated test cases across technological platforms. TAST automates: *Cross Browser testing *Mobile testing *Desktop applications testing *DDBB testing: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Db2. *File testing: txt, pdf, word, excel, csv, xml. *Mainframe testing: AS400, Host *APIs testing *Interface testing. *Remote Server testing. Types of tests you can automate with TAST: *Integration *Functional *System: Regressive, stress, load, parallel *Acceptance *A/B.
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    Cypress

    Cypress

    Cypress.io

    Fast, easy and reliable end-to-end testing for anything that runs in a browser. Cypress has been made specifically for developers and QA engineers, to help them get more done. Cypress benefits from our amazing open-source community - and our tools are evolving better and faster than if we worked on them alone. Cypress is based on a completely new architecture. No more Selenium. Lots more power. Cypress takes snapshots as your tests run. Simply hover over commands in the Command Log to see exactly what happened at each step. Stop guessing why your tests are failing. Debug directly from familiar tools like Chrome DevTools. Our readable errors and stack traces make debugging lightning fast. Cypress automatically reloads whenever you make changes to your tests. See commands execute in real-time in your app. Never add waits or sleeps to your tests. Cypress automatically waits for commands and assertions before moving on. No more async hell.
    Starting Price: Free
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    TestProject

    TestProject

    TestProject

    TestProject is the world’s first free cloud-based, community-powered test automation platform. TestProject makes it easier for testers to do their jobs quickly, and to collaborate using popular open source frameworks (e.g., Selenium and Appium) to ensure quality with speed. By fostering a collaborative community that can come together — as individuals and in teams — TestProject is shaping the future of software testing. Founded in 2015 in Israel, TestProject aims to create a powerful and collaborative environment for the entire test automation community, without any barriers, and completely for free. Learn more at https://testproject.io.
    Starting Price: $0
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    Playwright

    Playwright

    Playwright

    Playwright supports all modern rendering engines including Chromium, WebKit, and Firefox. Test on Windows, Linux, and macOS, locally or on CI, headless or headed. Playwright waits for elements to be actionable prior to performing actions. It also has a rich set of introspection events. The combination of the two eliminates the need for artificial timeouts - the primary cause of flaky tests. Playwright assertions are created specifically for the dynamic web. Checks are automatically retried until the necessary conditions are met. Configure test retry strategy, capture execution trace, videos, screenshots to eliminate flakes. Browsers run web content belonging to different origins in different processes. Playwright is aligned with the modern browsers architecture and runs tests out-of-process. This makes Playwright free of the typical in-process test runner limitations.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Appvance

    Appvance

    Appvance.ai

    Appvance IQ (AIQ) delivers transformational productivity gains and lower costs in both test creation and execution. For test creation, it offers both AI-driven (fully machine-generated tests) and also 3rd-generation, codeless scripting. It then executes those scripts through data-driven functional, performance, app-pen and API testing — for both web and mobile apps. AIQ’s self-healing technology gives you complete code coverage with just 10% the effort of traditional testing systems. Most importantly, AIQ finds important bugs autonomously, with little effort. No coding, scripting, logs or recording required. AIQ is easy to integrate with your current DevOps tools and processes. Appvance IQ was developed by a pioneering team who envisioned a better way to test. Their innovative vision has been made possible by applying differentiated, patented AI methods to test creation while leveraging today’s high-availability compute resources for massive levels of parallel execution.
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    pytest

    pytest

    pytest

    pytest helps you write better programs. The pytest framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing for applications and libraries. Due to pytest’s detailed assertion introspection, only plain assert statements are used. Detailed info on failing assert statements. Auto-discovery of test modules and functions. Modular fixtures for managing small or parametrized long-lived test resources. Can run unittest (including trial) and nose test suites out of the box. Supports Python 3.6+ and PyPy 3. Rich plugin architecture, with over 315+ external plugins and thriving community. The maintainers of pytest and thousands of other packages are working with Tidelift to deliver commercial support and maintenance for the open source dependencies you use to build your applications. Save time, reduce risk, and improve code health, while paying the maintainers of the exact dependencies you use.
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    Embedded Tester
    XEB360 is an embedded test automation framework designed for the stress testing of hardware & software algorithms. It is a generic automated testing multi-user framework comprising of hardware and software which allows the generation and monitoring of signals and patterns. The product encompasses distinguished software and hardware components that can help in creating, automatically executing, and evaluating various test cases. A very common challenge in the development and testing of embedded products is to create a real-world environment of signals and patterns to test the product in a repeatable and trackable way thoroughly. XEB360 addresses this problem by generating and monitoring signals and patterns supported by a sophisticated test harness that quantifies the quality assurance coverage. XEB360 offers a comprehensive set of historical data for all testing activities. It helps in the product engineering efforts of the teams by substantially focusing on quality processes.
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    Cucumber

    Cucumber

    SmartBear

    Validate executable specifications against your code on any modern development stack. With over 40 million downloads, Cucumber Open is the world’s #1 automation tool for Behavior-Driven Development. Cucumber Open isn't just open source, it's an open platform that plays well with the tools you already use and love. Works with Java, JavaScript, Ruby, .NET and many other platforms. Store plain text specifications alongside your code in your own source control system. Describe how the system should behave in a way that everybody can understand. Automate with Selenium, API calls or direct function calls in the same process. Generate reports in HTML, JSON and other formats, or build your own reports. Integrate with CucumberStudio, JIRA or build your own plugins. Bridge the gap between business and development using BDD. Decrease rework with test automation. Get real-time insights with living documentation. Seamless integration with Git.
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    Appium

    Appium

    The JS Foundation

    Appium is an open source test automation framework for use with native, hybrid and mobile web apps. It drives iOS, Android, and Windows apps using the WebDriver protocol. Appium is built on the idea that testing native apps shouldn't require including an SDK or recompiling your app. And that you should be able to use your preferred test practices, frameworks, and tools. Appium is an open source project and has made design and tool decisions to encourage a vibrant contributing community. Appium aims to automate any mobile app from any language and any test framework, with full access to back-end APIs and DBs from test code. Write tests with your favorite dev tools using all the above programming languages, and probably more (with the Selenium WebDriver API and language-specific client libraries).
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