"If a worker wants to do his work well, he must first sharpen his tools." In the field of automated testing, the core position of automated testing tools is unquestionable. At present, there are many tools that can support interface testing on the market. You can find many of them by searching on the Internet. Using automated testing tools for interface testing can improve testing efficiency and achieve twice the result with half the effort, but not all automated testing tools Can support you to complete the project tasks? Here are a few commonly used automated testing tools for you to choose:
1. The first model: Jmeter
JMeter is an open source stress testing tool developed by Apache based on java. It is not only small in size and full of functions, but also very convenient and simple to use. It is mainly used for load testing of web applications, while it also supports unit testing and limited functional testing.
There are many features of the JMeter tool, such as dynamic reporting, portability, powerful testing IDE, etc., and support for different types of applications, protocols, shell scripts, Java objects, and jmeter operation databases, etc.
Advantages of Jmeter tool:
Open source and free, the installation process is relatively simple
Jmeter tool has a wide range of applications
C/S architecture, rich logic controller based on jJmeter tool, and powerful monitoring components
The tools implemented by ava are easier to configure and more inclined to performance testing
JMeter provides BeanShell programming capabilities, which can write more flexible test scripts
JMeter provides more advanced extension capabilities, allowing you to define and extend new protocol support
JMeter's community is relatively complete and can provide rich protocol support
Disadvantages of Jmeter tool:
The script lacks certain flexibility, and the test report is more biased towards performance
No good BeanShell testing mechanism
It is impossible to judge the [correctness] of the test. Although Jmeter has an assertion mechanism, there is no way to predict the request response when simulating multi-user operations.
Insufficient support for fully automated implementations
2. The second item: SoapUI
SoapUI is an open source testing tool, which mainly uses soap/http to check, call, and realize the function/load/compliance test of Web Service.
SoapUI is a very popular open source API test automation framework for SOAP and REST, and also supports functional testing, performance testing, data-driven testing, and test reporting.
Advantages of SoapUI tool:
The SoapUI tool can implement test cases without programming by developers, and can automatically generate test messages through WSDL.
The SoapUI tool can directly refer to external property files to simplify the test steps
SoapUI supports REST and SOAP services
Powerful data-driven testing using data from files and databases
SoapUI provides a convenient interface to integrate JBoss, Ant, XMLBean, ApacheTCPMon and other tools
Use RESTful mock service
Disadvantages of SoapUI tool:
SoapUI uses its own web service client, so the client cannot call the web service like a real web service consumer
The URL of the WSDL file service endpoint of the Mock service cannot be controlled in SoapUI
need to crack
SoapUI does not support the JMS protocol
SoapUI takes up a lot of PC resources
3. The third item: Postman
Postman is an interface debugging and testing tool that supports the http protocol. Its main features are powerful functions, simple use and good usability. It can not only send all types of HTTP requests (including GET, POST, PUT, DELETE...etc.), but also with all the number of parameters and headers. Not only that, it can also provide import and export of test data and environment configuration data. For paid Post Cloud users, they can also create their own Team Library team collaborative tests, and can share their own test favorites and use case data with the entire team. shared.
Advantages of Postman tools
Cross-platform
The threshold is relatively low and quick to get started
Comes with various code modules
Graphical interface is very clear
The function of the free version is already very powerful, supporting http and https protocols
Support packet capture, save history, multi-terminal synchronization use cases
Combined with interface operations, the interface request information can be quickly configured, and various types of interface configurations and data configurations can be provided.
There are rich response assertions, which are convenient for quick verification of the interface
Disadvantages of the Postman tool:
Can't connect to database
Cannot operate file-related operations, cannot read and write databases, and cannot use non-HTTP protocols
It does not support searching for test cases by url and cannot specify test cases that fail to execute
Cannot carry out common code encapsulation and introduce third-party plug-ins
4. The fourth paragraph: Selenium
Selenium is the most popular open source automated testing framework for web applications. Due to continuous improvement, Selenium tools are currently the choice of many web automation testers, especially those with advanced programming and scripting skills. Selenium has also become the core framework of other open source automated testing tools such as Katalon Studio, Watir, Protractor and Robot Framework.
Selenium supports multiple system environments (Windows, Mac, Linux) and multiple browsers (Chrome, FireFox, IE and headless browsers (no interface)). Its scripts can be written in various programming languages such as Java, Groovy, Python, C+, PHP, Ruby and Perl.
Advantages of Selenium tools:
The interface is visualized, which is easier for beginners to use.
Data collection can also be done without a deep understanding of dynamic loading and back-end interaction
It is more in line with the habit of ordinary people to copy and paste web pages
Cons of Selenium Tools:
The loading speed is relatively slow, which is easy to cause blockage, resulting in low collection efficiency
It is not easy to migrate, and it needs to be modified many times to adapt to linux without interface
Visual collection is prone to browser problems, and the situation is prone to instability
5. The fifth model: LoadRunner
LoadRunner is a commercial performance testing tool that can be used for load testing to predict system behavior and performance. LoadRunner can test the entire enterprise architecture.
Enterprises using LoadRunner can minimize testing time, optimize performance and accelerate the release cycle of application systems. LoadRunner can be applied to automatic load testing of various architectures, predict system behavior and evaluate system performance.
Advantages of LoadRunner Tools::
relatively stable operation
Monitoring indicators are relatively complete
The results of the performance test are very detailed
It can simulate thousands of users to implement concurrent load and real-time performance monitoring to confirm and find problems
Disadvantages of the LoadRunner tool::
It is a charging tool, and the price is relatively expensive (so most companies will buy it)
The installation procedure is complicated and the operation is difficult
A summary of other common automation tools:
Of course, in addition to these mainstream automated testing tools, there are also other [non-mainstream] tools or frameworks on the market, which I will not list here. You can choose the one that suits your needs according to the detailed advantages and disadvantages I listed. interface automation testing tool.