Software Testing Tools: Unit Testing Tools, Functional Testing Tools, Load Testing Tools, Performance Testing Tools, Agile Testing Tools, DevOps
The shift towards mobile platforms is a strong trend currently and Android is the most widely adopted mobile OS with an estimated market share above 80% in 2014. You should naturally test all the apps developed for Android and a large number of open source testing tools and test automation frameworks have been developed to achieve this goal.
Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is an Agile approach that mixes requirement gathering, documentation and acceptance testing. You write human-readable sentences describing the features of your application and how they should work.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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