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Comparison of GUI testing tools

GUI testing tools serve the purpose of automating the testing process of software with graphical user interfaces.

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GUI testing tools serve the purpose of automating the testing process of software with graphical user interfaces.

Name Supported platforms
(testing system)		 Supported platforms
(tested system)		 Developer License Latest version Reference Status
AutoHotkey Windows Windows AutoHotkey GNU GPL v2 2.0.21 12 Active
AutoIt Windows Windows AutoIt Proprietary 3.3.14.5 3 Active
Appium Windows, Linux, Mac
(Python, C#, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Robot Framework)		 iOS, Android (both native App & browser hosted app) JS Foundation Apache (Binding Specific) 4 Active
Dojo Objective Harness cross-platform Web Dojo Foundation AFL 6.0 5 Active
eggPlant Functional Windows, Linux, OS X Windows, Linux, OS X, iOS, Android, Blackberry, Win Embedded, Win CE TestPlant Ltd Proprietary Unknown Active
HP WinRunner Windows Windows Hewlett-Packard Proprietary Unknown Discontinued
iMacros Web (cross-browser) Unknown iOpus Proprietary 12.5/10.0.5/10.0.2
Linux Desktop Testing Project Linux (With Windows and OSX ports) GUI applications with accessibility APIs (Collaborative project) GNU LGPL 3.5.0 6
Oracle Application Testing Suite Windows Web, Oracle Technology Products Oracle Proprietary 12.5 78 Active
Playwright Web (cross-browser) Web (Collaborative project) Apache 1.53.0 9 Active
QF-Test Windows, Linux, macOS X, Web (cross-browser) Windows, Java/Swing/SWT/Eclipse, JavaFX, Web applications, Windows Applications, C++, Android Quality First Software GmbH Proprietary 7.0.8 10 Active
Ranorex Studio Windows Windows, Web, iOS, Android Ranorex GmbH Proprietary 9.3.4 11 Active
Robot Framework Web (cross-browser) Web (Collaborative project) Apache 3.1.2 12 Active
Sahi Web (cross-browser), Windows Web, Java, Java Web Start, Applet, Flex Tyto Software13 Apache and Proprietary 5.1 (open source, frozen), 10.0.0 1415 Active
Selenium Web (cross-browser) Web (Collaborative project) Apache 3.141.59 16 Active
SilkTest Windows Windows, Web Micro Focus
previously Borland and Segue		 Proprietary 20.0 17 Active
SOAtest Windows, Linux, (cross-browser) Web (cross-browser) Parasoft Proprietary 9.10.8 18 Active
Squish GUI Tester Windows, Linux, macOS, Solaris, AIX, QNX, WinCE, Windows Embedded, embedded Linux, Android, iOS Qt, QML, QtQuick, Java AWT, Swing, SWT, RCP, JavaFx, Win32, MFC, WinForms, WPF, HTML5 (cross-browser), macOS Cocoa, iOS, Android, Tk The Qt Company (froglogic GmbH) Proprietary 6.7 1920 Active
Test Studio Windows Windows, Test Studio, Android, iOS Telerik by Progress Proprietary R1 2022 21 Active
TestComplete Windows Windows, Android, iOS, Web SmartBear Software Proprietary 14.10 Active
TestPartner Windows Windows Micro Focus Proprietary 6.3.2 Discontinued
Twist Unknown Unknown ThoughtWorks Proprietary 14.1.0 Discontinued
Unified Functional Testing (UFT)
previously named HP QuickTest Professional (QTP)		 Windows Windows, Web, Mobile, Terminal Emulators, SAP, Siebel, Java, .NET, Flex, others...22 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Proprietary 14.53 23 Active
Watir Web Web (cross-browser) (Collaborative project) BSD 6.16.5
Xnee UNIX X Window GNU Project, Henrik Sandklef GNU GPL 3.19



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