What are the advantages and disadvantages of Squish Testing Tool | Software Testing Tool

In this article, you will learn the advantages and disadvantages of Squish Tool which helps in GUI Testing. 

It is a GUI automation testing tool. It is basically a cross-platform and regression testing automation tool that is based on GUI technologies. Particularly, it is used for testing the user interfaces and applying test scripts at the time of the regression testing phase. It supports a large number of technologies such as Java AWT/Swing, Android, Web/HTML/Ajax, Qt, QML, etc. It supports test recording, integration testing for BDD, IDE, CI-system, and Test management.

Advantages of Squish Testing Tool:

• It has high consistency and lesser redundancy in giving rise to the test.
• It has reusability and scalability concerning the changing requirements.
• It allows the modification of test scripts concerning the integrated necessities.
• Its performance is very high and extremely high efficiency during the test execution phase. 

Disadvantages of Squish Testing Tool:

• It does not have options to take screenshots while recording the test results. 
• It is not fully automated and requires manual interference. 
• It can be adjusted according to the developer's choices. These choices make some test cases' execution difficult.
• If we wanna add any features to the licensed version of the tool, we have to pay for it which automatically becomes very expensive.

Applications of Squish Testing Tool

• It applies to a huge number of testing methodologies such as user interface testing, functional testing, regression testing, data-driven testing, keyword-driven testing, stress testing, and more which is allowed to involve more number applications created on the platform or combination of multiple platforms.
• It permits the user to test the application's built-in multiple platforms such as Android-based applications, web-based applications, java-based applications, QT applications, and many more. 

Squish Testing can work with all the applications built on the latest technologies. It is also suitable for those applications which support the test scripts up-to-date like Javascript, Perl, Python, TCL, and ruby.