Best Test Automation Frameworks for Java
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This a list of Test Automation Frameworks that integrate with Java. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with Java. View the products that work with Java in the table below.
What are Test Automation Frameworks for Java?
Test automation frameworks are sets of tools, components, and practices that automate the process of testing software applications. These frameworks enable testers to write, execute, and manage test scripts for various types of software testing, including functional, regression, load, and performance testing. They often provide features such as reusable test scripts, integration with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools, reporting, and test result tracking. Test automation frameworks help improve test efficiency, reduce manual errors, and speed up the overall testing process, especially in large and complex software environments. Compare and read user reviews of the best Test Automation Frameworks for Java currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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JUnit
JUnit
JUnit 5 is the next generation of JUnit. The goal is to create an up-to-date foundation for developer-side testing on the JVM. This includes focusing on Java 8 and above, as well as enabling many different styles of testing. We ask you – our users – to support us so we can keep up the pace. We will continue our work on JUnit regardless of how many donations we receive. However, your support would enable us to do so with greater focus and not only on weekends or in our spare time. For example, we want to meet regularly and work colocated for a few days in order to get things done faster in face-to-face design and coding sessions. Your donations will help to make that a reality! -
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Selenium
Software Freedom Conservancy
Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should) also be automated as well. If you want to create robust, browser-based regression automation suites and tests, scale and distribute scripts across many environments, then you want to use Selenium WebDriver, a collection of language specific bindings to drive a browser - the way it is meant to be driven. If you want to create quick bug reproduction scripts, create scripts to aid in automation-aided exploratory testing, then you want to use Selenium IDE; a Chrome and Firefox add-on that will do simple record-and-playback of interactions with the browser. If you want to scale by distributing and running tests on several machines and manage multiple environments from a central point. -
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REST Assured
REST Assured
Testing and validating REST services in Java is harder than in dynamic languages such as Ruby and Groovy. REST Assured brings the simplicity of using these languages into the Java domain.Starting Price: Free -
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Playwright
Playwright
Playwright supports all modern rendering engines including Chromium, WebKit, and Firefox. Test on Windows, Linux, and macOS, locally or on CI, headless or headed. Playwright waits for elements to be actionable prior to performing actions. It also has a rich set of introspection events. The combination of the two eliminates the need for artificial timeouts - the primary cause of flaky tests. Playwright assertions are created specifically for the dynamic web. Checks are automatically retried until the necessary conditions are met. Configure test retry strategy, capture execution trace, videos, screenshots to eliminate flakes. Browsers run web content belonging to different origins in different processes. Playwright is aligned with the modern browsers architecture and runs tests out-of-process. This makes Playwright free of the typical in-process test runner limitations.Starting Price: Free -
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Mockito
Mockito
Mockito is a mocking framework that tastes really good. It lets you write beautiful tests with a clean & simple API. Mockito doesn’t give you hangover because the tests are very readable and they produce clean verification errors. Read more about features & motivations. Top 10 Java library across all libraries, not only the testing tools. In late 2013 there was an analysis made of 30.000 GitHub projects. Although Mockito reached number 9 in the main report, mockito-core and mockito-all are the same tool and therefore the factual position of Mockito is number 4, surpassing famous tools like Guava or Spring. Treat this study as an indicator of a big impact that Mockito makes every day on unit tests written in Java.Starting Price: Free -
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PowerMock
PowerMock
Writing unit tests can be hard and sometimes good design has to be sacrificed for the sole purpose of testability. Often testability corresponds to good design, but this is not always the case. For example final classes and methods cannot be used, private methods sometimes need to be protected or unnecessarily moved to a collaborator, static methods should be avoided completely and so on simply because of the limitations of existing frameworks. PowerMock is a framework that extends other mock libraries such as EasyMock with more powerful capabilities. PowerMock uses a custom classloader and bytecode manipulation to enable mocking of static methods, constructors, final classes and methods, private methods, removal of static initializers and more. By using a custom classloader no changes need to be done to the IDE or continuous integration servers which simplifies adoption.Starting Price: Free -
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Robot Framework
Robot Framework
Robot Framework is a generic open-source automation framework. It can be used for test automation and robotic process automation (RPA). Robot Framework is supported by Robot Framework Foundation. Many industry-leading companies use the tool in their software development. Robot Framework is open and extensible. Robot Framework can be integrated with virtually any other tool to create powerful and flexible automation solutions. Robot Framework is free to use without licensing costs. Robot Framework has an easy syntax, utilizing human-readable keywords. Its capabilities can be extended by libraries implemented with Python, Java or many other programming languages. Robot Framework has a rich ecosystem around it, consisting of libraries and tools that are developed as separate projects.Starting Price: Free -
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Karate
Karate
Karate is the only open-source tool to combine API test automation, mocks, performance-testing and even UI automation into a single, unified framework. The BDD syntax popularized by Cucumber is language-neutral and easy for even non-programmers. Assertions and HTML reports are built-in, and you can run tests in parallel for speed. There’s also a cross-platform stand-alone executable for teams not comfortable with Java. You don’t have to compile code. Just write tests in a simple, readable syntax - carefully designed for HTTP, JSON, GraphQL and XML. And you can mix API and UI test automation within the same test script. It is worth pointing out that JSON is a ‘first-class citizen’ of the syntax such that you can express payload and expected data without having to use double-quotes and without having to enclose JSON field names in quotes. There is no need to ‘escape’ characters like you would have had to in Java or other programming languages.Starting Price: Free -
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Serenity BDD
Serenity BDD
Serenity BDD helps you write cleaner and more maintainable automated acceptance and regression tests faster. Serenity also uses the test results to produce illustrated, narrative reports that document and describe what your application does and how it works. Serenity tells you not only what tests have been executed, but more importantly, what requirements have been tested. One key advantage of using Serenity BDD is that you do not have to invest time in building and maintaining your own automation framework. The aim of Serenity is to make it easy to quickly write well-structured, maintainable automated acceptance criteria, using your favourite BDD or conventional testing library. You can work with Behaviour-Driven-Development tools like Cucumber or JBehave, or simply use JUnit. You can integrate with requirements stored in an external source (such as JIRA or any other test cases management tool), or just use a simple directory-based approach to organise your requirements.Starting Price: Free -
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Selenide
Selenide
You don't need to think how to shut down browser, handle timeouts and StaleElement Exceptions or search for relevant log lines, debugging your tests. We are proud to claim that Selenide is so simple that you don't need to read tons of documentation. Selenium WebDriver is a great tool, but it’s not a tool for testing. It’s a tool for browser manipulation. There are several testing libraries around Selenium WebDriver. But it seems that they do not resolve the main problems of UI tests. Namely, instability of tests caused by dynamic content, JavaScript, Ajax, timeouts etc. Selenide was created to resolve these problems. First of all, Selenide makes your tests stable by resolving (almost) all Ajax/timing issues. We are proud to claim that Selenide is so simple that you don't need to read tons of documentation. The whole work with Selenide consists of three simple things!Starting Price: Free -
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Spock Framework
Spock
Spock is a testing and specification framework for Java and Groovy applications. What makes it stand out from the crowd is its beautiful and highly expressive specification language. Thanks to its JUnit runner, Spock is compatible with most IDEs, build tools, and continuous integration servers. Spock is inspired from JUnit, RSpec, jMock, Mockito, Groovy, Scala, Vulcans, and other fascinating life forms. Spock Web Console is a website that allows you to instantly view, edit, run, and even publish Spock specifications. It is the perfect place to toy around with Spock without making any commitments.Starting Price: Free -
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Citrus
Citrus
Framework for automated integration tests supporting a wide range of message protocols and data formats! In a typical test scenario the system under test is running on a test infrastructure while interacting with Citrus over various messaging transports. During the test Citrus is able to act on both sides as client and consumer exchanging real request/response messages over the wire. With each test step you can validate the exchanged messages with expected control data including message headers, attachments and body content (e.g. XML, Json, ...). The test provides a Java fluent API to specify the test logic and is fully automated. The repeatable test is nothing but a normal JUnit or TestNG test and can easily run as integration test in a CI/CD pipeline. Kamelets represent Camel-K route snippets that act as standardized event sources and sinks in an event driven architecture.Starting Price: Free -
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Carina
Zebrunner
Describe all page objects on your own based on the most popular Page Objects pattern. Reuse Custom Type Page Factory to describe app specific pages (Web, IOS, Android, etc.). To make a cool test, you just need to add Verification Logic to your combined PageObjects. That is it. However, we do our best to support Data Driven Approach so you can get the data you need from whatever source available. If you want your test to be run for both IOS and Android platforms, just add some platform specifics, code will be reused by 80% avg. When it comes to test execution, here is the real variety of approaches you can use. You can run from either local or CI environments, include several platforms and get reports passed into multiple third party tools. The icing on the cake is that you can use any internal or external Selenium Hub Providers like Zebrunner Engine, SauceLabs, BrowserStack, TestingBot, etc. so multithreading will let you get the testing results rapidly.Starting Price: Free -
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Gauge
ThoughtWorks
Gauge is a free and open source framework for writing and running acceptance tests. Gauge tests are in Markdown which makes writing and maintaining tests easier. Reuse specifications and robust refactoring to reduce duplication. Less code and readable specifications means less time spent on maintaining the test suite. Gauge works with multiple languages, CI/CD tools and automation drivers. You don't have to learn a new language or tool to get your test automation tool to work for you. Gauge has a robust plugin architecture and plugin ecosystem. You can easily extend Gauge to add support for IDEs, drivers, datasources, text execution events or your favorite programming language. Don’t waste time going through stacktraces. Gauge takes a screenshot on a test failure allowing you to get a visible picture of what went wrong. Reports are available across multiple formats (XML, JSON, HTML).Starting Price: Free
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