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..

Google Spreadsheet .... Does not work in IE8

Yes.. Intrestingly Google Spreadsheet does not work in IE8. Is this a business strategy from Google by forcing the user to use Non Microsoft browser :) . Javascript error blocks the user to use Google spreadsheet in IE8

Luckily it works fine in Firefox ..

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