Software Testing Tools: Unit Testing Tools, Functional Testing Tools, Load Testing Tools, Performance Testing Tools, Agile Testing Tools, DevOps

Commercial and Open Source JMeter Plugins

October 8, 2024 3

The Apache JMeter is an open source load testing tool developed by the Apache Foundation that can be used to test performance both on static and dynamic resources. It can be used to simulate a heavy load on a server and also some functional testing. JMeter has an open architecture that can be extended with plugins.

Open Source Database Testing Tools

September 26, 2024 6

Database testing is one of the areas that might have the smaller number of open source tools. The programming languages have many xUnit tools and mocking frameworks, but this is not the case for databases. This article provides a list of open source tools that can be used to perform unit, load and security testing on several relational (MySQL, Oracle, SQLServer, etc.) and NoSQL databases.

Exploratory Testing Chrome Extensions

August 5, 2024 0

This article presents a list of exploratory testing extensions available for the dominant Chrome browser. The current trend in software testing might be to talk about test automation or artificial intelligence, but in some cases nothing replace the intelligence of a human tester to detect bugs and consequences of irrational user behavior.

Learning Gatling: Documentation, Tutorials, Videos

May 24, 2024 1

Gatling is an open source load testing tool. It officially supports HTTP, WebSocket, Server-Sent-Events and JMS. Gatling is developed in Scala and built upon Netty for non-blocking HTTP. It works with Akka for virtual users’ orchestration.

Free Online Test Data Generators

May 9, 2024 1

Most of your software testing activities will require to use data. Sometimes it could be just a small amount, however if you must test a feature to deliver an order confirmation on more than one page, then you need something other than a few items.

Open Source JavaScript Code Analysis

April 15, 2024 8

The quality of the JavaScript code is often verified with the traditional activities of unit and functional testing. There are however tools that allow checking code before or during its execution to assess its quality and its adherence to coding standards using a process called code analysis. This article presents a list of open source tools to perform static and dynamic code analysis on JavaScript programs.

When Postman Goes That Extra Mile to Deliver Performance to APIs

March 25, 2024 1

Postman is an API platform for building, using and testing APIs. Postman aims to simplify each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs. This article provides an introduction to the different features of using Postman as a test automation tool during the software testing activities related to API creation and management.

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