What are the test automation tools that use perl as the scripting language??

What can be the alternate uses of software test automation (scripting)?

• Web Automation scripts can do monotonous tasks of verifying data presence on a web page; can't this be used to automate data picking from different sites using automation scripts? One guy here on Quora wrote about writing a script for the Flipkart big sale and says an item only appeared on the hot items/discount list once it was completely sold out (apologies if that script did something different!!) using Python script. Was some sort of web/browser automation script used for checking data for the same? Edit: OK below is the link for the above scripting story:

• Answer:

  You can't limit the usage of software test automation. In my previous job, We have migrated to a new HRMS application and we had to feed the initial set of employee details into that system from a spreadsheet that we were using to maintain the HRMS data. So I went and suggested Selenium RC with little programming which will read the spreadsheet and will feed the data into the HRMS Employee details page. Also it will create a username based on a pattern and a random password and will send an auto generated Email to the the employee along with their login credentials. Earlier I have worked on automating manual testing for some of our projects. But for me that was the day where I felt that I have accomplished something really very great because of the impact that small program created in our organization. So my opinion is "Automation is not just Testing your Application". Anything that you are repeatedly doing on a regular basis in a manual and redundant way and if you are solving that with a help of a computer program, that is the real automation. See my definition about Test Automation here - http://linkeshkannavelu.com/2014/01/22/test-automation/ Hope this helps :) -Linkesh