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.

Statistics time !!!!

Know the Market share on the browsers, Operating system, Screen Resolution, search engines from Market share website


Statistics

This will help setting up the Browser matrix for any product development.

Quality center - Stand alone Explorer add in

Accessing Mercury Quality center through the IE browser gives an Activex download error now and then. For that purpose.. good alternative is use the Standalone Explorer addin for Quality center

Install this explorer addin and follow the instructions on the website
http://updates.merc-int.com/qualitycenter/qc90/others/qcexplorer/index.html

Google mail - Error

Just wondering google has also failed to give the proper mail box. See below.



No doubt... Google needs good software test engineer :-)

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 :-)

Screen Capture utilties

Many users are trying to grab the screen capture utilities. This post belongs to them

For freeware and shareware screen capture utilities follow below link

http://www.etrusoft.com/screen-capture-software-reviews/