Software Testing Tools

There are various software testing tools available for QAs to increase efficiency, visibility, accuracy, and ability of their work. The tools available are fast evolving and vary in terms of form, type, purpose, size, price, and so on. Here I provide a bunch of examples categorized according to their domain.

Lifecycle Management (overall solution)

Azure, a.k.a TFS, a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers.

Test Planning

Testlink. TestLink is a web-based test management system that facilitates software quality assurance. The platform offers support for test cases, test suites, test plans, test projects and user management, as well as various reports and statistics.

Test Automation

Selenium(framework).Selenium is a portable framework for testing web applications. Selenium provides a playback tool for authoring functional tests without the need to learn a test scripting language (Selenium IDE). It also provides a test domain-specific language (Selenese) to write tests in a number of popular programming languages, including C#, Groovy, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Scala. The tests can then run against most modern web browsers. Selenium runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS. It is open-source software.
Robot(framework).Robot Framework is open and extensible and can be integrated with virtually any other tool to create powerful and flexible automation solutions. Being open source also means that Robot Framework is free to use without licensing costs. Robot Framework has easy syntax, utilizing human-readable keywords. Its capabilities can be extended by libraries implemented with Python or Java. The framework has a rich ecosystem around it, consisting of libraries and tools that are developed as separate projects.
Katalon(IDE).Katalon Studio is an automation testing solution developed by Katalon LLC. The software is built on top of the open-source automation frameworks Selenium, Appium with a specialized IDE interface for web, API, mobile and desktop application testing.

API Testing

SoupUI. SoapUI allows you to test REST and SOAP APIs with ease – as it has been built specifically for API testing.
Postman. Seems to be a bit more popular, more up to date look and more features than the previous.

Security Testing

OWASP. The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is an online community that produces freely-available articles, methodologies, documentation, tools, and technologies in the field of web application security.
Kali Linux. Kali Linux is a Debian-derived Linux distribution designed for digital forensics and penetration testing.

Load Testing

JMeter. Apache JMeter is an Apache project that can be used as a load testing tool for analyzing and measuring the performance of a variety of services, with a focus on web applications.

Cypress Testing

Prerequisite for using Cypress.io

Node.js and NPM. Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside a web browser. NPM is a package manager for the JavaScript programming language. It is the default package manager for the JavaScript runtime environment Node.js.

Advantages of Cypress.io

Open source, free, automatic, scalable end to end testing, easier than selenium.
Tests run inside real browsers instead of a headless browser.
Visibility is considered during the test.
The scripts are readable.

Limitation

Cannot test multiple tabs at the same time.
Cannot test multiple superdomains in the same test.

Where to write your first test?

E.g. cypress > integration > first_test.js

Basic skills

• textbox input: get the element, test span, input
• selecting elements by: HTML tags or indexes or CSS classes or data-cy attribute (recommended)
• aliasing element: basically referring a long element selection as a short referral
• command results: assert on the element selected with cy.get
• beforeEach: easy repetition in beginning of each test
• base URL: specified in a JSON file
• interactions: double click, check(checkbox), uncheck, select(dropdown), hover over
• assertions: length, existence, contain, ...
• retry: some actions will be automatically retied to fight against flakiness