12 most favorite testing tools

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Performance Testing Tools

Here are some important tools to test

the performance, load and stress of the

website/application. These tools ensure

that your website/application will run

under high performance and less load &

stress.

is a 100% pure Java desktop application

designed to load test functional behavior

and measure performance. It was

originally designed for web applications

testing but has expanded to other test

functions since.

is a load testing tool for Windows and

Linux, given by HP to test the web and

other applications very efficiently before

it goes to end users. It is available in

stable version 12.0 in many languages.

LoadRunner is very helpful in determining

the performance and result of the web

application under heavy load.

Automation/ Functional testing Tools

is one of the most popular automated testing

suite. Selenium is designed in a way to

support and encourage automation testing if

functional aspects of web based applications

and a wide range of browsers and platforms.

is a Java-based open source library designed to

help teams implement Acceptance Test Driven

Development more effectively. In the same

way, the Thucydides framework observes and

analyzes your acceptance tests, and records a

detailed account of their execution.

Testing and Project Management Toolsis a centralized test case management tool – you

create test cases and test suites, track execution

and report metrics. One most common

integration is with Gemini, which is a

incident/ticket management system.

is one of the very few open source test

management tools available for use in the

market. It is a web-based tool with typical

features like, requirement management etc.

is team collaboration software. Written in Java

and mainly used in corporate environments, it is

developed and marketed by Atlassian.

Bug Tracking Tools

is a proprietary issue tracking product, developed

by Atlassian. It provides bug tracking, issue

tracking, and project management functions.

Although normally styled JIRA, the product name is

not an acronym, but a truncation of Gojira, the

Japanese name for Godzilla.

is an open source issue tracker that provides a

delicate balance between simplicity and power.

Users are able to get started in minutes and start

managing their projects while collaborating with

their teammates and clients effectively.

is Pivotal Labs' software as a service product for

agile project management and collaboration. In

July 2011,Pivotal Tracker had over 250,000

registered users.

is an open source issue tracking system that

integrates with SCM (source code management

systems). Even though it is not a ‘bug tracking’

tool it involves working with issues, where issuescan be features, tasks, bugs/defects etc.

is a web-based general-purpose bugtracker and

testing tool originally developed and used by the

Mozilla project, and licensed under the Mozilla

Public License.

All of this testing tools are important

for evaluation of output and of course

for testing. During the testing QA

Madness use the listed tools ourselves.