Tools

BugHunt has a range of test tool experience in both use and assessment for use, some of those are described below.

Test automation is an investment, more time and effort invested early will yield better results later on. It is something that must be approached professionally, not considered a side project, and be planned appropriately. 

The benefits of automated testing are simple:

  • Faster
  • Consistent
  • Repeatable
  • Minimum overhead

Bugzilla

Bugzilla LogoA defect tracking system that allows individuals or groups of developers to keep track of outstanding bugs in their product effectively.

Rational ClearQuest

IBM Logo A highly flexible defect and change tracking system that captures and tracks all types of change.

Test Track Pro

Seapine LogoTracks defects, feature requests, change requests, development assignments, customer issues, and any other tasks or artifacts tracked as part of your development process.

TRUEtrack

McCabe Logo Enables organizations to track the tasks and changes in their software development processes, helping to eliminate duplicate problems and to increase visibility and accountability throughout the change process.

T-Plan Incident Manager

T-Plan Logo  Can be run as an integrated module of T-Plan Professional or can be run as a standalone application. With full integration with T-Plan Professional the benefits of tracking your raised issues against the test or requirements documentation is realised.

IssueNet

 IssueNet Enables full traceability of the issue life cycle giving visibility and accountability to issues found.

JMeter

JMeter LogoApache JMeter is a 100% pure Java desktop application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. Originally designed for testing Web Applications, since expanded to other test functions.

LoadRunner

HP Logo Automated client/server system testing tools which provide performance testing, load testing and system tuning for multi-user applications

SoapUI

 Eviware An automated tool for testing Web services. It helps prevent errors by performing server functional testing, load testing, and client testing. It  facilitates server functional testing by automatically creating a test suite from a WSDL document that tests every operation associated with that document.

JUnit

A regression testing framework.

Selenium

Selenium LogoA Firefox add-on that records clicks, typing, and other actions to make a test, which you can play back in the browser.

BadBoy

BadBoy LogoBadboy makes web testing and development easier with dozens of features including a simple yet comprehensive capture/replay interface, powerful load testing support, detailed reports and graphs.

Ken TestMan

Ken TestMan A browser based test management tool. A very useful and cheap upgrade from managing by spreadsheet, though lacks the features, performance and adaptability of the big boys.

RM Track

 A browser based issue management tool with visual workflow design.

iOpus Internet Macros

iOpus Useful to drive functional testing for browser applications, and has scripting support.

Macro Scheduler

MJNet Offers the capability to automate functional testing of applications running under Windows, using capture-replay technology.

Fiddler

Fiddler A packet sniffer, capturing, and modifying, http and https traffic via a 'man in the middle' approach.

Wireshark

A packet sniffer, less intuitive than Fiddler 2.

Virtual Machines

VirtualBoxGive the ability to test many variations of platform with relative ease, and without hardware costs, Oracles VirtualBox and Microsoft's Virtual PC are two common examples.

Note Pad++

Notepad++ An excellent tabbed and expandable text editor, plugins include xml, html, JavaScript and many, many others.

Personal Brain

TheBrain Mind mapping, in 3d, with file attachments.

Freemind

ButterflyA mind mapping tool written in Java.

CTE XL

berner & mattner A powerful tool to systematically specify and implement test cases using the classification tree method.

Firefox plugins

  • W3c Page Validator Validates a page using W3C markup validation service.
  • SQL Injection Helps identify SQL injection security vulnerabilities.
  • QuickRestart Restarts Firefox at the click of a button.
  • Firebug Inspect HTML and modify style and layout in real-time.
  • HttpFox Analises the http request and response header, cookies, parameters and response.
  • LinkChecker Simply shows broken links on the page.
  • MeasureIt Allows you to be picky about the size and height of elements on the page.
  • YSlow Performance feedback from yahoo.
  • FireShot A screen capture tool, allowing comment and highlighting.
  • URLParams Shows the page parameters in the side bar, and allows them to be changed.
  • Tamper Data A useful security test tool, allowing modification of the POST data.
  • View Dependencies Displays the file and images that are used in a page and their performance statistics.
  • Flash Switcher Changes the current version of Flash player.

Volere Logo The Volere Project Management Process

Volere ProcessThe Volere process provides a well-defined structure and guides as to which requirements content is appropriate for you. The process and template work with existing tools and methods, including agile.

Volere is applicable to modeling techniques such as UML, business process, data and state models.

Prince2

PRINCE2 is a heavy-duty system and is used to run large projects. It is therefore comprehensive, but also verbose and bureaucratic.

Team Foundation Server (TFS)

Offers source control, data collection, reporting, and project tracking in one, intended for collaborative software development projects.