List of points to select Automation Tool

After the strong analysis and believe of automation will really help for our concern.However we have to choose a right automation tool to implement for our project requirement

Before choose the automation tool,think about the below points :

1.Do we need to automate standalone application or client/server application or both?
2.Are we ready to invest some money to buy a tool or not
3.Do we have the technical persons to train the resource or need any expert from out side
4.Is our existing testing resources capable of adopting the new technology?
5..How is the technical support available for the tool
6.How frequent update is available for the tool to handle the new technology implementation of AUT.
7.Complexity of using the tool.
 For Client/Server Application Selenium is my choice to automate my application for various reasons

• Its Free
• Its Compatible for many languages so i don't need a different language expert to implement. I can use any language which i am using to develop my application.
• Its easily maintainable during frequent integration

Test Data Generator

For all projects, test data is important for application testing (Validation). So i am looking for tool to generate test data.  Here i mentioned the link which i used to generate....
We can generate different type of test data  format like HTML XML, Excel, Csv, Sql

http://www.generatedata.com/#generator

softwaretestingclub

The below mentioned link to get more information about software testing...

http://www.softwaretestingclub.com