With the development of the Internet industry today, more and more companies pay more attention to work efficiency and teamwork, and more and more products tend to be platform-based, which is also more conducive to improving team efficiency, code management, continuous construction, and continuous deployment. The development of these tools is very advanced, and their support for team collaboration and improvement of work efficiency are very obvious. In contrast, the development of testing tools is obviously lagging behind. Traditional testing tools such as jmeter and loadrunner may perform well in some single-point functions, but they generally have no achievements in team collaboration and tool platformization.
In my opinion, testing tools should support teamwork and allow everyone to participate. For example, if large-scale performance testing is to be done now, it must be done in cooperation with R & D and testing, but their behaviors are scattered in their own on the tool. Is this scenario possible? Or is there a testing tool that covers the entire testing process, from interface to performance to interface automation, from UI testing to UI automation. I think this may be the future of testing tools.
I am also fortunate to know that there is an open source testing platform, RunnerGo. See their product philosophy: Empower R&D and make testing easier. Understand some ideas of the product manager of this product: I want to solve some pain points of using traditional tools and change the status quo of testing tools. These points resonate very much with the author's thoughts. I also feel good after using it, so I recommend it to everyone.
Advantages of RunnerGo compared to traditional testing tools
- Open source: RunnerGo adopts the relatively loose Apache-2.0 license open source agreement, calling on developers to contribute to open source together.
- Platformization: Teamwork must be the development direction of Internet tools, and platformization can better promote collaboration.
- Full-stack: support from interface debugging-scene management-performance testing-automated testing. One platform covers the full testing cycle.
- Easy to use: Built-in various testing tools, no need to download various plug-ins, you can test it just by getting started.
Features of RunerGo
- Support interface management function, support team collaboration, and pressure test can be performed after adjusting the interface.
- Thanks to the development of the go language and the distributed architecture, it can easily support large-scale pressure testing. Compared with other performance testing tools, it is more lightweight and the performance test results are more accurate.
- Support real-time viewing of test reports and press conditions.
- In order to improve work efficiency and reduce unnecessary operations, RunnerGo self-developed visualized scene configuration, pressure test mode selection, simple operation, and intuitive configuration.
- RunnerGo simplifies the configuration steps of automated testing, and can configure timing tasks to achieve continuous integration.
The above characteristics make RunnerGo different from other tools. Personally, I think its development direction is also a development direction of all testing tools: a one-stop testing platform.