Comparison of GUI testing tools

GUI testing tools serve the purpose of automating the testing process of GUI applications.

Some notable tools are:

IBM Rational Functional Tester by IBM
TestPartner by Micro Focus
Soatest (absorbed WebKing starting in version 6.0) by Parasoft
TestComplete by AutomatedQA recognized by Gartner and by most of the sites referenced below
HP QuickTest Professional (QTP) by Hewlett-Packard (formerly by Mercury)
WinRunner by Hewlett-Packard (formerly by Mercury)
SilkTest by Borland (formerly by Segue)
QF-Test by Quality First Software, for Java/Swing, Eclipse/SWT and HTML only
Automation Anywhere by Automation Anywhere, for Windows or Web GUI
GUIdancer by Bredex, for Java (Swing, RCP/SWT, GEF) and HTML
Ranorex
iMacros
AutoIt
T-Plan Robot (formerly known as VNCRobot)
Fitnesse
Dogtail by Red Hat
Abbot (Open Source)
Jemmy (Open Source)
Watir (Open Source) browser driver for web UI testing
Selenium (software) (Open Source) for Web UI testing
Linux Desktop Testing Project by freedesktop.org
SWTBot -- for functional testing of SWT and Eclipse based applications.
Test Automation FX - Windows UI testing with Visual Studio
RIATest for Flex
web2test by itCampus, partner of QFS
WindowTester by Instantiations for testing Swing, SWT and Eclipse/RCP based applications.
Phantom Automation Language - Microsoft Windows GUI Testing
Squish by froglogic - Qt, Qt/Embedded, Swing, AWT, SWT, RCP/Eclipse, Cocoa, Carbon, HTML, Ajax, Tk, XView

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