Leading Commercial Codeless Testing Tools for Web Applications

In the commercial landscape, there are a few leading tools that should be known to front-end web application developers, SDETs, and manual testers. While we’ll only focus on three tools in this lesson, there are a few others that are not in the scope of this lesson, including Katalon Studio and Tricentis Tosca.

This lesson will feature the following three commercial tools:

• Perfecto scriptless web, which is based on the acquired TestCraft solution

• Testim codeless testing solution for the web

• Mabl codeless testing solution for the web

These three tools are quite different in their features and capabilities, as well as the vision that the companies behind these tools have.

Perfecto scriptless web overview

The Perfecto scriptless solution is an integration of a codeless web testing AI-driven solution that was acquired by Perfecto’s owning company Perforce. After TestCraft was acquired, it was fully integrated into the Perfecto cloud-based continuous testing platform for web and mobile. With this tool, users can easily record any type of web application and generate keyword-driven test scenarios without writing a single line of code. At the backbone of the implementation, Perfecto scriptless utilizes the Selenium framework to perform actions on the web application under test. However, it also provides a wide range of testing capabilities, as listed here:

• Test creation and recording

• Test management and cloning

• Self-healing and element locator weighting

• Running tests within CI, schedulers, and in parallel

• A unique feature called Selenium-Based Extended Module (SBEM) for importing code into the codeless solution.

• Fully integrated into the Perfecto platform with access to the code/codeless reporting and manual testing of web applications

We can see an example of a Perfecto scriptless test scenario in the following screenshot: