3rd Annual ATI Automation Honors

The ATI Automation Honors are awards that celebrate excellence in the discipline of software test automation. You, the automation community, have voted for who should be honored, and the winners were announced live at the Verify/ATI 2011 Testing and Test Automation conference. Now, you can finally see who the winners are! The winners and finalists are listed below in sections.

Read more: The Special November Issue of the Automated Software Testing Magazine will highlights all of the Automation Honors Finalists and winners, by providing additional details about each of them as well as fun facts and excerpts of some of the acceptance speeches.

Category List

Best Open Source Unit Automated Test Tool
Best Open Source Functional Automated Test Tool
Best Open Source Performance Automated Test Tool
Best Commercial Functional Automated Test Tool
Best Commercial Performance Automated Test Tool
Best Automated Testing Book
Best Automated Testing Blog
Best Automated Testing Forum

BEST OPEN SOURCE UNIT AUTOMATED TEST TOOL

Sub-Category: C++

ATI AUTOMATION HONORS WINNER

PRODUCER/PROJECT ADMIN(S)

Google C++ Testing Framework

Google

RUNNER-UP

ATF	Automated Testing Framework (ATF)	TBD
*FINALISTS*
	Boost Test Library	Dave Abrahams
	cfix	Johannes Passing

Sub-Category: Java

ATI AUTOMATION HONORS WINNER

PRODUCER/PROJECT ADMIN(S)

JUnit
David Saff, Erich Gamma, Erik G. H. Meade, Kent Beck

FINALISTS

	TestNG	Cédric Beust
	UISpec4J	Régis Medina, Pascal Pratmarty

Sub-Category: .NET

ATI AUTOMATION HONORS WINNER

PRODUCER/PROJECT ADMIN(S)

NUnit
Charlie Poole

FINALISTS

	MbUnit	Johan Appelgren, Jeff Brown, Joey Calisay
	xUnit.net	Brad Wilson, Jim Newkirk

Sub-Category: Overall

ATI AUTOMATION HONORS WINNER

PRODUCER/PROJECT ADMIN(S)

JUnit
David Saff, Erich Gamma, Erik G. H. Meade, Kent Beck

RUNNER-UP

NUnit

Charlie Poole

FINALISTS

	Google C++ Testing Framework	Google
	TestNG	Cédric Beust

BEST OPEN SOURCE FUNCTIONAL AUTOMATED TEST TOOL

Sub-Category: Web

ATI AUTOMATION HONORS WINNER

PRODUCER/PROJECT ADMIN(S)

Selenium
OpenQA

RUNNER-UP

TestMaker

PustToTest

FINALISTS

	Sahi	Tyto Software
	Watir	Bret Pettichord

Sub-Category: Java

ATI AUTOMATION HONORS WINNER

PRODUCER/PROJECT ADMIN(S)

White Vivek Singh

RUNNER-UP

SWTBot

Ketan Padegaonkar

FINALISTS

	T-Plan Robot	T-Plan Ltd.
	Jemmy	Alexandre (Shura) Iline

Sub-Category: Flash/Flex

ATI AUTOMATION HONORS WINNER

PRODUCER/PROJECT ADMIN(S)

Flex Monkey
Gorilla Logic

FINALISTS

Melomel	Melomel	Ben Johnson
	TestMaker	PustToTest

Sub-Category: Overall

ATI AUTOMATION HONORS WINNER

PRODUCER/PROJECT ADMIN(S)

Selenium
OpenQA

RUNNER-UP

Flex Monkey

Gorilla Logic

FINALISTS

	TestMaker	PustToTest
	T-Plan Robot	T-Plan Ltd.

BEST OPEN SOURCE PERFORMANCE AUTOMATED TEST TOOL

Sub-Category: Web

ATI AUTOMATION HONORS WINNER

PRODUCER/PROJECT ADMIN(S)

JMeter
Apache Software Foundation

FINALISTS

	Grinder	Philip Aston
	Hammerora	Steve Shaw

Sub-Category: Web Services/SOA

ATI AUTOMATION HONORS WINNER

PRODUCER/PROJECT ADMIN(S)

SoapUI SmartBear Software

FINALISTS

JMeter

Apache Software Foundation

Grinder

Philip Aston

Sub-Category: Overall

ATI AUTOMATION HONORS WINNER

PRODUCER/PROJECT ADMIN(S)

JMeter
Apache Software Foundation

RUNNER-UP

SoapUI

SmartBear Software

FINALISTS

	Grinder	Philip Aston
	Hammerora	Steve Shaw

BEST COMMERCIAL FUNCTIONAL AUTOMATED TEST TOOL

Sub-Category: Web

ATI AUTOMATION HONORS WINNER

PRODUCER/PROJECT ADMIN(S)

QuickTest Professional (HP Functional Tester)
Hewlett Packard

RUNNER-UP

	Test Studio	Telerik
*FINALISTS*
	SilkTest	Micro Focus
	Rational Functional Tester	IBM

Sub-Category: Java

ATI AUTOMATION HONORS WINNER

PRODUCER/PROJECT ADMIN(S)

TestComplete
SmartBear Software

RUNNER-UP

QuickTest Professional (HP Functional Tester)

Hewlett Packard

FINALISTS

	TestDrive	Original Software
	Twist	ThoughtWorks
	QA Wizard	Seapine Software

Sub-Category: .NET

ATI AUTOMATION HONORS WINNER

PRODUCER/PROJECT ADMIN(S)

Ranorex
Ranorex GmbH

RUNNER-UP

	Test Studio	Telerik
*FINALISTS*
	Certify	Worksoft
	SilkTest	Micro Focus

Sub-Category: Flash/Flex

ATI AUTOMATION HONORS WINNER

PRODUCER/PROJECT ADMIN(S)

Ranorex
Ranorex GmbH

RUNNER-UP

	TestDrive	Original Software
*FINALISTS*
	RIATest	Cogitek Inc
	eggPlant	Testplant

Sub-Category: Web Services/SOA

ATI AUTOMATION HONORS WINNER

PRODUCER/PROJECT ADMIN(S)

SilkPerformer for SOA
Micro Focus

RUNNER-UP

	SoapUI Pro	SmartBear Software
FINALISTS
	TestDrive	Original Software
	SOATest	Parasoft

Sub-Category: SAP

ATI AUTOMATION HONORS WINNER

PRODUCER/PROJECT ADMIN(S)

Certify
WorkSoft

FINALISTS

	QuickTest Professional (HP Functional Tester)	Hewlett Packard
	Rational Functional Tester	IBM

Sub-Category: Overall

ATI AUTOMATION HONORS WINNER

PRODUCER/PROJECT ADMIN(S)

QuickTest Professional (HP Functional Tester)
Hewlett Packard

RUNNER-UP

TestComplete

SmartBear Software

FINALISTS

	Rational Functional Tester	IBM
	Ranorex	Ranorex GmbH
	SilkTest	Micro Focus

BEST COMMERCIAL PERFORMANCE AUTOMATED TEST TOOL

Sub-Category: Web/HTTPS

ATI AUTOMATION HONORS WINNER

PRODUCER/PROJECT ADMIN(S)

LoadRunner
Hewlett Packard

RUNNER-UP

SilkPerformer

Micro Focus

FINALISTS

	Rational Performance Tester	IBM
	AQTime	Smart Bear

Sub-Category: Web Services/SOA

ATI AUTOMATION HONORS WINNER

PRODUCER/PROJECT ADMIN(S)

LoadRunner
Hewlett Packard

RUNNER-UP

	SoapUI Pro	SmartBear Software
*FINALISTS*
	SilkPerformer for SOA	Micro Focus
	SOATest	Parasoft

Sub-Category: Overall

ATI AUTOMATION HONORS WINNER

PRODUCER/PROJECT ADMIN(S)

LoadRunner
Hewlett Packard

RUNNER-UP

	SilkPerformer	Micro Focus
*FINALISTS*
	Rational Performance Tester	IBM
	AQTime	Smart Bear

BEST AUTOMATED TESTING BOOK

ATI AUTOMATION HONORS WINNER

AUTHOR(S)

Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation Jez Humble and David Farley

FINALISTS

	Software Testing with Visual Studio 2010 (Microsoft .NET Development Series)	Jeff Levinson
	Selenium 1.0 Testing Tools: Beginner's Guide	David Burns

BEST AUTOMATED TESTING PRESENTATION

ATI AUTOMATION HONORS WINNER

AUTHOR(S)

Making Test Automation Work on Agile Projects Lisa Crispin

FINALISTS

Exploratory Test Automation in Bing	Harry Robinson
Automated Testing in an iOS World	Eric Bariaux

BEST AUTOMATED TESTING ARTICLE

ATI AUTOMATION HONORS WINNER

AUTHOR(S)

Development’s role in software test Automation Linda Hayes

RUNNER-UP

Technical vs. Non-Technical Skills In Test Automation	Dorothy Graham
*FINALISTS*
Continuous Integration and Automation	Eric Pugh
Test automation: Business agility requires disposable test assets	George Wilson
UI Automation Beneath the Presentation Layer	Bj Rollison