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

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

2 The Rise of OpenSource Applications Middleware Servers Operating Systems Linux, FreeBSD Apache, MySQL Jboss CM – CVS,Subversion IDE – Eclipse Unit Testing – JUnit, NUnit Build Tools – Ant, Nant 37.6% Servers Market Share (IDC Projection 2008 ) 50.8% Webservers Market Share (Netcraft 2007) 44% RDBMS Market share (EDC 2007) 34.8% IT managers polled have Jboss - BZ Research 2006 Development/Test Tools

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

4 Open Source Testing Tools  Current Available 70+  Strongest Presence  Watir/Watin/Watij 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)  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 www.opensourcetesting.org  Others  Sahi, PyWinAuto, Floyd, Frankenstein, AutoIT, Abbot/Costello  Load & Performance 35+  WebLoad (RadView), Jmeter, OpenSTA

5 Is OpenSource the Future for Test Automation?

6 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?

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

8 Training  Surprisingly commercial training is available!  Watir and Junit/Nunit training courses:  www.trainingpages.com www.trainingpages.com  Other Open Source training  http://www.opensourcetraining.co.uk/ 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)

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

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