By: Dr. Shohreh Ajoudanian
Software Testing Tools
(30 OF THE BEST FREE TEST TOOLS)
2018
IAUN
Manual vs Automated testing
About every test tool
Who: <What kind of tester is it for?>
What: <What is it good for?>
Where: <address please http://>
CATEGORY: THINKING TOOLS
#1 THE HEURISTIC TEST STRATEGY MODEL
Who: Every tester must consider this model whe n assessing the testing needs of an application What: If your looking for a model by which to plan a test strategy project, design tests, explore the s oftware, and assess quality. Oh, and provide valu able feedback and find a ton of bugs…
Where: http://www.satisfice.com/tools/htsm.pdf
#2 YOUR BRAIN
Who: Any Tester wanting to improve their test efforts
What: Upgrade some thinking today
Experience is a fabulous teacher. Use the gray matter between your ears to solve tough probl ems in testing, try new things, follow your teste r’s intuition when exploring software, and inno vate on your processes – making them faster, more reliable, and with a higher degree of qual
#3 MINDMUP
Who: Testers that want to visually design tests or organize test ideas in an easy to understand for mat
What: A cloud-based mind mapping tool running i n Chrome, complete with collaboration features Where: https://www.mindmup.com/
#4 BLACK BOX SOFTWARE TESTING COURSES
Who: Any tester wanting to grow their tes ting skills
What: Courses to build a solid testing skill set – Foundations of Software
Testing, Bug Advocacy, and Test Design Where: http://testingeducation.org
CATEGORY: PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
Who: Any Tester that doesn’t want to rem ember every user ID and password for ev ery stinking application and system on th ey access on planet earth
What: Password management – plain and simple
Where: https://lastpass.com/
#6 GENERATEDATA.COM
Who: Any Tester that needs some da ta, like right now!
What: It lets you quickly generate lar ge volumes of custom data in a varie ty of formats for use in testing softw are, populating databases, etc. It ha s a variety of export options!
Where: http://www.generatedata.co m/#t1
#7 JING
Who: Any Tester wanting to take quick and easy screenshots or short videos and share them out
What: Image and video capture of your screen + basic edits + sharing a link from screencast.com
Where:
https://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
#8 GOOGLE DOCS
Who: Any tester looking for document creation, sharing, and with awesome collaboration abilities!
What: Documents, Spreadsheets, Slide Presentations, and Forms for Surveys.
Everyone can work on the same document at the same time!
Where:
https://www.google.com/docs/about/
#9 TRELLO
Who: Any Tester or team who needs to organize work tasks
What: Organize your personal tasks in lists, or use the tool for project collaboration
Where: https://trello.com/
CATEGORY: TOOLS THAT WE USE IN TESTING
#10 NOTEPAD ++
Who: Any Tester that wants more out of a text editor
What: Notepad++ is a free source code e ditor and Notepad replacement that supp orts several languages. It runs in MS Win dows environment.
Where: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
#11 RAPID REPORTER
Who: Any Tester wanting to do session- based testing with notes management What: A note taking application that aid s in the reporting process of SBTM – Se ssion Based Test Managements. SBTM i s a method for managing exploratory te sts, which relies on notes taken during an uninterrupted testing session and a review of these notes afterwards.
Where: http://testing.gershon.info/repor ter/
#12 FIREEYES
Who: Testers looking for Section 508 Accessibility feedb ack
What: A Firebug Plugin that runs with Firebug. With FireE yes you can review your testing results which include de tails about the specific standard in violation, the capabili ty to highlight the specific area of the page where the er ror is located, and inspect the issue directly in your brow ser. Then you can download the results as a report.
Where: http://www.deque.com/products/fireeyes/
#13 BURP SUITE
Who: Any Tester wanting to monitor network traffic or do some security testing
What: Burp Suite is an integrated platform fo r performing security testing of web applicat ions. Its various tools work seamlessly toget her to support the entire testing process, fro m initial mapping and analysis of an applicati on's attack surface, through to finding and ex ploiting security vulnerabilities.
Where: http://portswigger.net/burp/
#14 CHECK MY LINKS
Who: Any Tester working with web pages What: Quickly check all of the links on a page to see if they are working
Where:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/cat egory/apps
CATEGORY: AUTOMATION TOOLS
Who: Testers wanting to drive web browsers across platforms
What: create browser-based regression automation tests, and scale and distribute scripts across many environments – or create scripts to aid in exploratory testing Where: http://www.seleniumhq.org/
#16
Who: Any Tester that wants to eat a zero calorie vegetable…and fall in love with automation.
What: Cucumber lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text.
Where: https://cucumber.io/
#17 SOAPUI
Who: Any Tester needing to test Web Services a nd APIs
What: SoapUI is an open source cross-platform Functional Testing tool for Service Oriented Arc hitecture (SOA) and Web Service testing. With a n easy-to-use graphical interface, and enterpris e-class features, SoapUI allows you to easily an d rapidly create and execute automated functio nal, regression, compliance, and load tests.
Where: http://www.soapui.org/
CATEGORY: TECHNICAL TOOLS
#18 FIREBUG
Who: Focused Testers Feeling Frankly Ferven t For Firefox Flavor
What: Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fing ertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live i n any web page
Where: http://getfirebug.com/whatisfirebug
#19 PROCESS MONITOR
Who: Testers needing deep system monitoring capabilities
What: Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring t ool for Windows that shows real-time file system, R egistry and process/thread activity. It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemo n and Regmon, and adds an extensive list of enhan cements including rich and non-destructive filterin g, comprehensive event properties
Where: https://technet.microsoft.com/enus/
library/bb896645.aspx
#20 CCLEANER
Who: Any Tester who wants to clean up their cache
What: Cleans up unused files and settings, browser cache, cleans registry and fixes errors and broken settings, disables background programs
Where:
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
#21 JMETER
Who: Performance Testing\Testers What: Scaling performance tests and cr oss platform.
Where: http://jmeter.apache.org/
#22 SHAREX
Who: Snagit Wannabe
What: Screen capture, screen editing, scree ncasting
Where: http://getsharex.com/
#23 TOGGL
Who: Any Tester
What: Time tracking that can be used for better tracking and planning
Where: http://www.toggl.com/
#24 PYTHON
Who: Any Tester
What: General purpose scripting language Where: http://www.python.org/
#25 POSTMAN
Who: Any Tester needing to test Web S ervices and APIs
What: REST testing for browsers Where: https://www.getpostman.com/
#26 ES FILE EXPLORER
Who: Any mobile Tester
What: File System viewer and modifier Where:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/detail s?id=com.estrongs.android.pop&h l=en /
#27 WIRESHARK
Who: Any Tester needing to look at all typ es of network traffic
What: Awesome for looking at network tra ffic with nice filtering
options. Can look at several adaptors bec ause you can have multiple
instances open.
Where: http://www.wireshark.org/
#28 ECLIPSE
Who: Any Tester wanting to do automation What: Open source IDE SUN + GIT
Where: http://github.com/
Where: http://maven.apache.org/
Where: http://genymotion.com/
#29 ITERM (MAC)
Who: Anyone viewing terminal windows o n a Mac
What: Great for looking at logs on multiple servers
Where: http://iterm.sourceforge.net/
#30 GOOGLE HANGOUTS
Who: Any Tester \ Offsite Testers
What: Google Hangouts is a communicat ion platform developed by Google which includes messaging, video chat, SMS an d VOIP features.
Where: http://www.google.com/+/learnm ore/hangouts/
