Summary
The need to support faster time to market with higher quality is driving the demand for effective functional test automation tools. We evaluate vendors in this space to help application leaders who are modernizing software development select test automation tools that best match their needs.
Strategic Planning Assumption
By 2020, DevOps initiatives will cause 50% of enterprises to implement continuous testing using frameworks and open-source quality tools.
Market Definition/Description
The software test automation market offers tools, technologies, components and services that together constitute the critical elements for automated testing. It includes tools for performing static code analysis, functional testing, and load and performance testing in an automated way. This Magic Quadrant focuses on functional software test automation tools.