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Top 10 Software Quality Assurance Tools For The Professionals

In the software development lifecycle, these QA tools act like a toolkit that can help you to validate, inspect and perfect the processes before they go live. Undoubtedly, there are multiple tools that you can use as a professional, but we are listing the top ten tools that you must add to your bucket list.

  1. Selenium Selenium is one of the best open-source automated web automation tools that allow users to execute testing for web applications. It is also used on various platform testing applications and supports many programming languages. Therefore, this tool is appropriate for professionals who want a flexible QA testing solution.
  2. TestLink TestLink is a test management platform that assists the quality assurance engineers in tracking, planning and making reports on the test efforts. It is specifically helpful for those teams working on agile projects and looking for a QA tool to help them manage the complete testing process in software development.
  3. Apiary It is an API software testing tool on a cloud-based platform for building, testing and designing APIs. Thus, it is beneficial for documentation, collaboration, and integration with popular frameworks and programming languages. This tool is helpful for QA professionals who require API management and testing solutions. You should know that this tool is available online on a subscription basis.
  4. Cypress It is an open-source quality assurance automation tool that supports multiple testing types using JAVAscript, like API, end-to-end, and component testing. Cypress is a complete tool that is helpful for automated testing and supports running various tests in a single framework.
  5. Playwright Playwright is an open-source automation tool or framework that Microsoft uses. It is also similar to Cypress because it is an end-to-end automation testing tool supporting API testing. It helps to maintain a single framework for different testing types.
  6. Jmeter is an open-source platform quite famous for performance testing (It is a non-functional testing technique which helps to observe the speed, stability and responsiveness of an application under a given work pressure), but it is also used for API testing without any problem. JMeter is useful because it offers a user interface that makes it easy to run complicated tests. Well , this is not the end there are other 4 Quality Assurance Tools that you need to master.

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