Mainframe Automation Testing Tools

The following are some of the mainframe automation testing tools:

1. Subject7

Subject7 is a simple, cloud-based SaaS test automation platform that delivers end-to-end test mechanization via a sequence of instructions. It’s a well-known name among the current automation solutions. This script-free, language-agnostic tool with an easy online interface was created to assist both non-technical testers and test automation experts in quickly creating complicated automated test scenarios.

Features:

• REST, JIRA, and Jenkins-competent DevOps pipelines are all simply integrated.
• Appium and Selenium are open-source standards that are used to test mobile and online applications.
• The web interface is simple to use, making it suitable for non-programmers.

2. LambdaTest

LambdaTest is a cross-browser testing platform that is scalable, cloud-based, and designed for both manual and automated software testing. It lets you test your public or locally hosted website or web app on more than 2000 different browsers, browser versions, operating systems, and resolutions. It provides a rapid preview of how the site will seem and allows one to test the layout on 36 various devices with just one click. On top of that, the platform lets one run Appium and Selenium scripts on a scalable online Selenium Grid across mobile browsers on both iOS and Android.

Features:

• Fully automated and interactive in real-time.
• The user interface is fantastic and simple to use.
• For real-time testing, a large number of browsers and mobile devices are available.

3. HeadSpin

Another popular Connected Intelligence Platform is HeadSpin, which provides mobile, 5G, web, and IoT applications. It unifies network, application, and device monitoring and testing by integrating with all automation and testing frameworks. One can test, monitor, and analyze any application running on any device, on any network, or anywhere in the world using HeadSpin.

Features:

• Profiling and debugging of local code.
• Debugging from afar.
• Testing for localization.
• There are almost 500 tests running in parallel.
• On a shared cloud device, there is access to more than 300 devices in more than 30 countries.

4. QTP

Quick Test Professional (QTP) now called UFT is used to test functional regression test cases of the web-based application. This is used to perform automated functional testing seamlessly without monitoring the system. 

• The tool is used for functional, regression, and service testing.
• It is used to test web, desktop applications, and client-server.
• There is a UFT extension in Chrome Store.
• Some of the newly supported technologies are JDK 1.8, and XenDesktop 7.
• UFT supports browsers Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, and Safari.

5. REXX

REXX is an interactive programming language that can execute system commands such as TSO, ISPF, etc. It is easy to use by experts and casual users.

• It has the capability to issue commands to its host environment.
• It has the capability to call programs and functions written in other languages.
• It has convenient built-in functions.
• It has the debugging capability. 

Mainframe testing is used to evaluate software, applications, and services built on Mainframe Systems. The major goal of mainframe testing is to ensure the application or service’s dependability, performance, and excellence through verification and validation methodologies, and to determine if it is ready to launch or not. Because CICS screens are custom-built for specific applications, the tester just has to know how to navigate them when performing Mainframe testing. Also, if the code in COBOL, JCL, or other languages is changed, the tester does not have to worry about the emulator being set up on the system.

Here, we will discuss the following points:

1. What is Mainframe?
2. Mainframe Testing Methodologies.
3. Prerequisites for Mainframe Testing.
4. Mainframe Attributes.
5. Steps for Mainframe Testing.
6. Mainframe Testing Procedures To Follow.
7. Types of Mainframe Manual Testing. 
8. Mainframe Automation Testing Tools.
9. Best Practices For Mainframe Testing.
10. Mainframe Testing Challenges and Troubleshooting.
11. Benefits of Mainframe Testing.