Load testing from different parts of World..

Have you ever thought of doing load testing from different parts of world to see how web pages are responding from different parts of the world, then you should try this tool from AOL

Load test

Want to view how it works

Optimizing Web Performance with AOL Pagetest from Dave Artz on Vimeo.

1. It gives very clear detail of statistics when it comes to component level

2. Detailed Waterfall, Optimization check list, and Screen shot of web page tested.

3. Repeat view helps to execute the same load test without cache.

4. And it gives clear report of things which needs to be changed.

Quality center in IE8

If you are having a problem of accessing quality center in IE8. Follow the below steps by opening the Internet Explorer 32 bit version

1. Navigate to Tools > Internet Options > Advanced tab
2. Scroll down to security section of Advanced tab
3. Deselect "Enable memory protection to help mitigate online attacks"
4. Restart the browser and navigate to Quality center
5. Install the activex .. you will straight away see the quality center opened without any problem

Update:

Note: 1. For doing above steps you need to Open Internet explorer 32 bit version with administration (Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer and right click on Internet Explorer and run as administrator)

Update2:

After following above steps if you are still getting OTACLIENT.dll not download Error then you need to install "HP Quality Center Connectivity" plugin from Quality center addins page

Wonder about these free Software testing tools

I know most of the software testers are aware of Selenium, Fitneese, Test link and other Open QA tools. But there are many other free tools which require attention as well like
a. CTE -XL
b. ZETA Test
c. Unified Test pro
d. qa manager
e. Generatedata.com
f. Jkool profiler
g. The Grinder
h. Xqual Studio
i. Testopia
and many more..

Firefox Add-ons for Software testing

Just wanted to share the firefox add-ons which are really helpful for software testing

1. Firebug - With this you can edit the CSS, HTML, Javascript and inspect for the elements

2. YSlow - This is the integrated plugin within Firebug, which really helps for checking the performance of the individual components such as Javascript, image download etc

3. W3C Page Validator - This Add-on helps to validate the webpages for w3c compliance or not.

4. IE Tab for firefox - This little add-on opens IE tab within the firefox window, which is really helpful while doing some layout testing. But this renders differently compared to IE

5. Firesizer - This Add-on helps the tester to test the applications in different sized windows.

6. Web Developer tool bar - This add-on as important as Firebug. This toolbar is equivalent of IE tool bar in IE. This tool bar does everthing that is required for validating the webpages (css, HTML, XHTML, Acessibility, Meta data information and many more)

7. LinkChecker - When a page is having many links and to check for broken links on the webpage this add-on is really helpful

8. Flash Switcher -If you are testing the flash based application with different versions of the flash plugin on your browser, so this is the right tool for performing the desired task.

9. Flash Block - Again to test fall back page when flash plugin not installed in the browser, this is the good add-on

10. SQL injection - This addons helps tester to identify the sql injection vulnerabilities

11. HTTPFOX - This is the good add-on to know and dig into the request/response of the webpage.

12. HACK BAR -this is the good add-on for finding the SQL vulnerables, XSS vulnerabilities and DOS attacks.

13. Add N Edit cookies - This add-on is really useful if you some want to test the webpage after tampering the cookie,.

14. Tamper Data - This add-on is helpful to tamper the header of the Request/response data.

15. Measureit This is the great utility when you are testing the application design consistancy.

Web CEO

It's been a while i have posted here... all these because of the Agile methodology.. :-)

Alright... after coming from the clouds of agile testing, i have found a great utility for the testers called WEB CEO.

It includes all the following features
1. SEO Testing
2. Link popularity
3. Traffic analysis
4. Reports generation.

more importantly it is an Freeware.

web CEO can be downloaded from

Visual studio Team suite 2008

Just came across the visual studio team suite 2008 edition. I have installed this. this is a becoming very handy webtesting tool for the testers as well. It is having my cool features integrated into single suite

Supports different test types such as

a. Unit test: Use a unit test to create a programmatic test in C++, Visual C# or
Visual Basic that exercises source code.

b. Web Test: Web tests consist of an ordered series of HTTP requests that you
record in a browser session using Microsoft Internet Explorer. You can have
the test report specific details about the pages or sites it requests, such
as whether a particular page contains a specified string.

c. Load Test: You use a load test to encapsulate non-manual tests, such as
unit, Web, and generic tests, and then run them simultaneously by using
virtual users. Running these tests under load generates test results,
including performance and other counters, in tables and in graphs.

d. Generic testA generic test is an existing program wrapped to function as a
test in Visual Studio.

e. Manual test: The manual test type is used when the test tasks are to be
completed by a test engineer as opposed to an automated script.

And also VS TFS supports Profiling/code coverage/ Load testing/ data driven test. It is having inbuilt bug tracking system/Project management system everything in one tool

Click here to download


i am loving'it :-)

Another awesome add in for firefox users - Yslow

Yslow for firebug is a great utility for analyzing the web pages and based on some set of rules


To download
http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/

One URL covers many tools

Just found one URL which can cover more than 100 tools

Here we go....

http://tester.jonasjohn.de/

Bad boy automated tool

Bad boy is the automation regression tool which works with view state and lots of the features in it.

To download it http://www.badboy.com.au/

It is a good record and play back tool with load testing feature also i.e we can simulate the 1000 users at a time

It not commercial tool or open source tool cheap to use