Mogotest - Web consistency testing service from Mogoterra, Inc. created and developed by Kevin Menard and Nick Plante. For automated checking of web site appearance consistency of UI's vs reference site pages, across browsers, and across browser versions. Also checks for dead links, broken pages, redirect loops, and other common deployment problems. Capabilities also include secure testing of pages located behind a firewall without publicly exposing a site or modifying firewall configuration. Test agent infrastructure runs in Amazon Web Services cloud. Monthly or pay-per-test payment options.
Skytap - Cloud-based application development and test solution from Skytap Inc. provides developers and test engineers with scalable cloud based virtual data centers (VDC) that can run apps/sites without rewrites; publish specific environments to different testing teams; scale load testing capacity on-demand. Create isolated test environments for wide variety of OS, database, browser, and app combinations and capture state (memory, network settings, data, etc) of multi-machine configurations and save as templates. Each configuration is network fenced, enabling installation of intrusive tools and restoration to a safe known version.
Feedback Roulette - A free service for anonymous exchange of feedback about websites, by Michael Dadashyan. You review others' websites and they review yours. Members assign scores to each others' reviews to specify how useful the feedback is. Based on that the reviewer's reputation is calculated. The system then uses the reputation to match reviewers. All reviews are anonymous, allowing people to say openly what they think. Also there is a powerful system of ratings and reputation which helps to match reviewers with each other. Premium memberships also available via PayPal subscription or redeeming Feedback Points.
Wave - Free web accessibility evaluation online tool provided by WebAIM. It is used to aid humans in the 508 web accessibility evaluation process. Rather than providing a complex technical report, WAVE shows the original web page with embedded icons and indicators that reveal the accessibility of that page. Also available is the WAVE Firefox toolbar allowing evaluation of web pages directly within your browser.
Color Contrast Analyzer - Free downloadable tool from the Paciallo Group to help determine the legibility of text on a web page and the legibility of image based representations of text, can be used as a part of web accessibility testing. It is primarily a tool for checking foreground and background colour combinations to determine if they provide good colour visibility. It also contains functionality to create simulations of certain visual conditions such as colour blindness. Determining "colour visibility" is based on the Contrast Ratio algorithm, suggested by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to help determine whether or not the contrast between two colours can be read by people with colour blindness or other visual impairments. For Win platforms.
JAWS Screen reading software from Freedom Scientific; for Win platforms. Can be used for Web 508 accessibility testing.
NVDA - NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) is a free and open source screen reader for win platforms developed by NV Access. Support for over 20 languages and the ability to run entirely from a USB drive with no installation. Can be used for 508 accessibility testing.
Charles - Web debugging proxy app by by Karl von Randow at XK72 Ltd is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables viewing all the HTTP and SSL/HTTPS traffic between the browser and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information). For Win/Mac/Linux.
OnionTest - Simple quasi-functional testing of REST/HTTP web services, by Jacques du Rand; released under the MIT Software license.
Email on Acid - Service to preview an email in more than 40 variations of the most popular mobile devices, web-based email clients, and email apps. Tests can be run 3 ways - insert a URL, cut/paste HTML code, send an email directly to Email on Acid account. Uses two approaches: a) Screen Captures - the email is sent through each email client application with a screen capture of the final result, b) Code Based Simulations - a code based simulation of the email is generated by analyzing and parsing the HTML and CSS code much like each of an actual email clients does, and test results are displayed from within a web browser; for web based email clients, the email is displayed as it would appear in the browser being used to run the test. Free and $ versions of service available.
Litmus - Email preview service via screenshots of how email would appear in more thaqn 30 mobile devices and email clients. Allows uploading the HTML or sending a test email. Also provides cross-browser landing page and website testing, in addition to the email previews, by generating landing page previews in 8 different web browsers.
View Dependencies - Firefox extension adds a tab to the Page Info window, in which it lists all the files which were loaded to show the current page. It orders the files by servers and by types (image, stylesheet, script, ...). The size of each file, the total size per server and the total page size are displayed. With a context menu, can open any file in a new tab or new window; can also copy a url to the clipboard.
Gridfox - Firefox extension draws a grid on top of a website; useful for checking designs. Right click anywhere on a website, and go to GridFox > Toggle Grid. In the bottom right will be some buttons to help create, edit and save a grid; also some arrows which enable browing let you browse any existing grids for the site of interest.
FontFinder - Firefox extension allows a user to analyze the font information of any element on a page, copy any piece(s) of that information to the clipboard, and perform inline replacements to test new layouts. Any active element can have any piece of the font's options (such as color, size or family) adjusted inline. Info captured includes: Font color (rgb and hex); background color (rgb and hex); font family (including actual font being rendered); font size, line-height, vertical-align, letter and word spacing; font weight, style, variant; text transform, decoration, align and indent;element's type, class and ID.
Firesizer - Firefox extension provides a menu and status bar to resize the window dimensions to a specific size. Unlike other similar extensions, this one sets the size of the *entire window*, not just the HTML area.
Web Developer - Firefox extension with a vaireity of useful capabilities; one of the more popular Firefox extensions for dev/testing. Capabilities include inspect, edit and disable CSS, graphics; browser resizer; much more.
Greasemonkey - Firefox extension enable user to customize the way a web page displays or behaves, by using small bits of JavaScript; hundreds of useful Javascript snippets available.
FireShot - Firefox extension that creates screenshots of web pages entirely and enables annotations. save as PNG/GIF/JPEG/BMP. Also available for Google Chrome and IE.
MeasureIt - Firefox extension draws a ruler across any webpage to check the width, height, or alignment of page elements in pixels.
Glimpse Real User Monitoring - A web performance monitoring solution from Catchpoint Systems, that relies on JavaScript tags to capture the performance of the webpages for the actual end users of the site. It provides insight on the performance of the pages and its impact on the business.
RedBot - An open source robot that checks HTTP resources to see how they'll behave, pointing out common problems and suggesting improvements. Although it is not a HTTP conformance tester, it can find a number of HTTP-related issues. Interacts with the resource at the provided URL to check for a large number of common HTTP problems, including: Invalid syntax in headers, ill-formed messages (e.g., bad chunking, incorrect content-length), incorrect gzip encoding, missing headers. Additionally, it will tell how well your resource supports such HTTP features as caching, negotiation for compression, last-Modified and ETag validation, partial content. Supports http but not https.
Webpagetest - An online tool that was orginially developed by AOL for use internally and was open-sourced in 2008. The online version is an industry collaboration with various companies providing the testing infrastructure for testing your site from across the globe. Provides web page content analysis, performance analysis, various performance scores. API's available for scripting.
GTMetrix - Free online web page speed analyzer, from Gossamer Threads, Inc. Based on Google Page Speed and Yahoo! YSlow, checks one page at a time and provides page preformance analysis report and suggestions for improvement.
Page Speed - An open-source project started at Google to help developers optimize their web pages by applying web performance best practices. Started as an open-source Firefox/Firebug add-on and is now deployed in third-party products such as Webpagetest.org, Show Slow and Google Webmaster Tools. Page Speed family of tools includes Page Speed Firefox/Firebug add-on which allows you to evaluate the performance of web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them, and the mod_pagespeed Apache module which automatically rewrites pages and resources to improve their performance.
Sikuli - An open source visual technology to automate and test GUI's using images (screenshots). Developed at the User Interface Design Group, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Includes Sikuli Script, a visual scripting API for Jython, and Sikuli IDE, an integrated development environment for writing visual scripts with screenshots easily. Sikuli Script automates anything you see on the screen without internal API's support. You can programmatically control a web page, a Windows/Linux/Mac OSX desktop application, or even an iphone or android application running in a simulator or via VNC.
Xpresser - An open source Python module which enables trivial automation of GUIs via image matching algorithms. Note: though Xpresser uses gtk to implement its features, there’s nothing specific to gtk on the features and interface that Xpresser offers. Can use on its own or embedded in other apps.
RoutineBot - A visual test automation software tool from AKS-Labs that enables creation and execution of tests based on image patterns. Can use manual script design or automatic script recording. Supports Pascal, JavaScript and Basic scripting languages; supports a variety of events - mouse events (clicking, moving), keyboard events (entering text), taking screenshots, loading and saving data, downloading files, working with applications and windows; supports wide range of functions to log events which includes advanced htm log with screenshots of test cases.
Speed Tracer - An open source tool to help you identify and fix performance problems in your web applications. It visualizes metrics that are taken from low level instrumentation points inside of the browser and analyzes them as your application runs. Speed Tracer is available as a Chrome extension and works on all platforms where extensions are currently supported (Windows and Linux). Using Speed Tracer you are able to get a better picture of where time is being spent in your application. This includes problems caused by JavaScript parsing and execution, layout, CSS style recalculation and selector matching, DOM event handling, network resource loading, timer fires, XMLHttpRequest callbacks, painting, and more.
ShowSlow - An open source tool that helps monitor various website performance metrics over time by collecting web performance data and showing it in aggregated form for better business understanding. Captures the results of YSlow and Page Speed rankings and graphs them, to help you understand how various changes to your site affect its performance.
Blaze - An online service from Blaze Software Inc. for optimizing website speed by optimizing Front End Performance. Blaze’s automated optimization combined with it's Content Delivery Network partner can maximize the potential performance of your web site.
Fitnium - Fitnium from Magneticreason.com provides the ability to write and execute Selenium tests using the FitNesse framework but without the need to write code. Based on a FitNesse DoFixture, provides an English language interpretation of the Selenium API that you would normally call from Java, Ruby, Python, Perl or C#. In this instance it allows developers, testers, and customers to write UI driven automated acceptance tests. All API's available to Java, Ruby, Python, Perl or C# developers is now available as an easily understand English phrase that anyone can use to develop their own tests.
Sauce OnDemand - Runs Selenium tests in parallel across multiple browsers in the cloud; from SauceLabs Inc. Acts as a drop-in replacement for Selenium RC, allowing simple configuring of scripts to use Sauce OnDemand. Unlimited browser instances enables testing as many apps across as many browsers as needed; live remote control views of tests running in Sauce OnDemand enables faster test debugging cycles; run FireFox Custom Profiles in the Cloud; test apps securely behind a firewall with Sauce Tunnel - connects a VM on your internal webserver to Sauce OnDemand via SSH, with only the Sauce Labs machines actively running the tests having access and when a test is finished, access is revoked.
JSView - Firefox plugin enables ability to view the source code of external files. Most websites store their javascripts and style sheets in external files and then link to them within a web page's source code. JSView enables access to these files from the context menu, from the toolbar, from the view menu, or from the status bar. If the website you are viewing contains any external js/css files, an icon will appear that says "SS", "JS", or both. Each individual file can then be viewed by clicking on the filename. The file will be opened in a new window. You can also choose to open all external files by clicking on "View All"
.
.
Flash-Selenium - The Flash-selenium open source project extends the Selenium RC clients for adding Flash communication capabilities. Enables direct testing of the UI components of a Flex application.
Selenium-Flex API - The Selenium-Flex API allows automation of Flex applications using the popular test automation tool Selenium. The API is easy to set up and can be done with only basic working knowledge of either Flex or Selenium. Requires Firefox and inclusion of the Selenium-Flex API in Flex app build.
Virtu-El.com Spell Checker Online free spell checker and link checker from C# computing.
HTTPDebugger - HTTP Traffic Analyzer tool from MadeForNet.com that enable effective debugging of http headers and http content. Analyze HTTP headers, POST data, cookies, error codes and SOAP envelopes; measure the size, execution and downloading time of dynamic web pages; view the traffic from browser add-ons, ActiveX components and Java applets; decode HTTPS connections and gzip/chunked encodings; see complete stats in charts and diagrams. Supports a variety of browsers.
WebWait - Free online web site timer from Michael Mahemof; use to benchmark your website or test the speed of your web connection; pulls down the entire website into your browser, so it takes into account Ajax/Javascript processing and image loading which other tools ignore.
Cucumber - Cucumber is a tool that can execute plain-text functional descriptions as automated tests. The language that Cucumber understands is called Gherkin. While Cucumber can be thought of as a “testing” tool, the intent of the tool is to support BDD (Behavior-Driven Development). This means that the “tests” (plain text feature descriptions with scenarios) are typically written before anything else and verified by business analysts, domain experts, etc. non technical stakeholders. The production code is then written outside-in, to make the stories pass. Cucumber itself is written in Ruby, but it can be used to “test” code written in Ruby or other languages including but not limited to Java, C# and Python. Requires only minimal use of Ruby scripting, so cucumber can be utilized in testing contexts where the application code is not Ruby.
Aptimize Website Accelerator - An ISAPI filter for Microsoft IIS, or a Daemon and module for Linux Apache, that automates performance tuning by dynamically optimizing web pages for high performance at runtime – just before a page is sent from web server to browser. For Win and Linux platforms.
Spello - Open source web site spell checker; run as a windows form or command line. Supports English (US and UK), French, German and Spanish (Spain and Mexico) dictionaries. More dictionaries can be downloaded from http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries. Html based log file. Written in C#, requires Microsoft.Net 3.5 SP1, the setup program has a bootstrapper to install it.
eggPlant - An image-based, low-overhead, non-invasive black-box test automation tool. Does not reside on the system-under-test and is technology agnostic, so it can test in many situations that other tools cannot by using image capture and advanced search techniques. Does not interact with the underlying code, and can test any application including those that can cause problems for other tools such as Flash, Silverlight, etc. Works
T-Plan Robot - A black box automated testing tool developed on generic image based testing principles; provides a human-like approach to software testing and performs in situations where other tools may fail. Support of Java test scripts as well as a proprietary scripting language; record & replay capability; support of testing over the RFB protocol (better known as VNC); ability to perform black box GUI testing of mobile phones (Windows Mobile, Symbian, iPhone); open architecture with a generic plugin interface and well documented programming interfaces. Platform independent (Java); runs on, and automates major systems, such as Windows, Linux, Unix, Solaris and certain mobile platforms.
LiteTest - Web analysis and evaluation reports of your website usability and other aspects; you test other users websites, and they test yours. Complete a website evaluation report for three other sites and you will then be guaranteed a minimum of three web analysis reports on your own site. Registration and evaluations are free.
System Shephard - An IT Performance Monitoring and Operations Management Platform for web and other systems; from Absolute Performance Inc. Modules include StressWalk and WebWalk. Delivers an enterprise-wide view of system performance and alert status; supplies analysis and reports based on real-time, recent, and historical data
Spydermate - Free online SEO analysis tool from MentorMate that gives a numerical and visual representation of a website's online marketing effort by using a variety of graphs and statistics. Other capabilities: page-specific on-site keyword analysis; side-by-side comparisons of your own website against a competitor.
Twill - Simple open source Python-based scripting language for web browser control from a command-line interface. Navigate through Web sites that use forms, cookies, and most standard Web features. Supports automated Web testing
Web Testing Plugin collection - Large collection of links to and short descriptions of open source utilities and tools for web testing, unit testing, assertions, mocks, fixture utilities, reporting, validators, code coverage, etc. Mostly for Ruby, maintained by Benjamin Curtis
UTE - Automated 'usability testing environment' from Mind Design Systems, Inc. Assists in quantitative usability evaluation of websites and web applications; automates capture of usability data in detail not easily done by a human observer. Consists of a) a 'UTE Manager' which helps set up test scenarios (tasks) as well as survey and demographic questions, and compiles results and produces customized reports and summary data; and b) a 'UTE Runner' which presents test participants with test scenarios (tasks) as well as any demographic and survey questions; the runner also tracks actions of the subject throughout the test including clicks, keystrokes, and scrolling.
Venkman Javascript Debugger - Firefox extension; open source JavaScript debugging environment for Mozilla based browsers.
XPather Firefox add-on by Viktor Zigo. Has rich XPath generator, editor, inspector and simple extraction tool. Requires the standard DOM inspector plugin for FF3.
FlexMonkey - A testing framework for Flex apps. Capabilities include capture, replay and verification of Flex UI functionality. Can generate ActionScript-based testing scripts that can easily be included within a continuous integration process. Uses the Flex Automation API and was created by extending Adobe's sample automation adapter, AutoQuick. Donated to the Flex community by Gorilla Logic. Site also lists info and links to three other open source Flex test tools/frameworks: FlexUnit, Selenium-Flex, and FunFx.
UnmaskParasites - A free online service that checks web pages for hidden illicit content (invisible spam links, iframes, malicious scripts and redirects). By Denis Sinegubko. Just type in the URL of the web site to be checked.
TestArmy - TestArmy provides cheap access to a large, flexible base of testers with a wide range of hardware. Test applications thoroughly in a variety of environments, at lower cost, using crowd-sourcing. Enable more efficient testing on the end user hardware and software platforms that have proliferated, particularly for mobile and web applications. Developed by Peter Georgeson.
Rasta - Rasta is a keyword-driven open source test framework by Hugh McGowan using spreadsheets to drive testing. Loosely based on FIT, where data tables define parameters and expected results. The spreadsheet can then be parsed using your test fixtures. For the underlying test harness, Rasta uses RSpec so in addition to reporting results back to the spreadsheet you can take advantage of RSpec's output formatters and simultaneously export into other formats such as HTML and plain text. Since Rasta utilizes Ruby, it can work well with Watir (listed elsewhere in this page).
File Comparators - Web testing - or any type of testing - often involves verification of data vs expected data. While this is simple enough programmatically for single data points or small data sets, comparison of large amounts of data can be more challenging. This site, maintained by FolderMatch/Salty Brine Software, a windows file/folder comparator tool vendor, lists a large number of Win data comparators. An old (2003) but still useful listing of mostly non-Windows data comparator tools is maintained by Danny Faught in his Open Testware Reviews site's Data Comparator Survey .
TMX - Keyword driven test automation product from Critical Logic, provides automated, fully annotated, executable scripts for QTPro, Watir, TestPartner, and SilkTest. Imports the objects that make up an application (radio buttons, entry fields, etc.) and builds an Object Tree containing all elements and attributes subject to testing. Then automatically generates the executable test scripts and test documentation. 'Virtual Objects' allow building of test scripts from requirements in parallel with code development.
Google's Website Optimizer - Google's service for testing variations in site design (titles, images, content, etc) to determine impacts on conversions, user actions, traffic, or other goals.
YSlow - Free open source tool analyzes web pages and explains why they're slow based on rules for high performance web sites. A Firefox add-on integrated with the Firebug web development tool. Includes a Performance report card, HTTP/HTML summary, list of components in page and related info, tools including JSLint. Generates a grade for each rule and an overall grade, lists suggested specific changes to improve performance, calculates total size of page for empty and primed cache scenarios, cookie info. Can also view HTTP response headers for any component.
ItsNat - Open source Java AJAX component-based web development framework provides a natural approach to web development; leverages 'old' tools to build new AJAX based Web 2.0 applications. Server centric using an approach called TBITS, "The Browser Is The Server": simulates a Universal W3C Java Browser at the server mimicking the behavior of a web browser, containing a W3C DOM Level 2 node tree and receiving W3C DOM Events. Contains significant built in functional web test support.
HTT - Open source scriptable HTTP test tool for testing and benchmarking web apps and for HTTP server development. Can act as client (requesting) and server (backend for reverse proxies). Pattern matching answers (both server and client) to test validity. Supports chunking in request and response.
Web Page Analyzer - Free online website performance tool and page speed analysis from Website Optimization. Calculate page size, composition, and download time, size of individual elements and sums up each type of web page component. Then offers advice on improving page load time.
HTTPWatch - An HTTP viewer and debugger plugin for MS Internet Explorer for HTTP and HTTPS monitoring without leaving browser window. Real-time page and request level time charts;millisecond accurate timings and network level data. Includes automation interface that can be used by most programming languages. Supports filtering of requests by criteria such as content types, response codes, URLs, headers and content. Basic free and paid versions available.
IBM Rational Policy Tester Accessibility Edition - Helps ensure Web site accessibility to all users by monitoring for over 170 comprehensive accessibility checks. It helps determine the site's level of compliance with government standards, including the U.S. government's Section 508 and guidelines such as the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (W3C WCAG), the UK's Disability Discrimination Act, and France's AccessiWeb.
IBM Rational Policy Tester Privacy Edition - Reports on form, form controls, and Form GET inventory, pages collecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and privacy policy links. Generates inventory of site privacy policies and checks and checks for secure pages and encryption and third-party data sharing policies; maps technical checks to specific online requirements of laws and regulations, such as U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) Privacy Rules, HIPAA, California SB1386 & AB1950 and AB1 950; Safe Harbor re European Community's Directive on Data Protection; and U.S. Section 208.
TextTrust - Online service for one time or periodic full site spell checking; report includes listing of each text error with URL, built-in spelling mistake highlighter; correct your errors with Google suggestion lookup. System learns as it checks, detects industry terms and buzzwords such that only real errors are reported.
WireShark - Network protocol analyzer available under the GNU General Public License. Capabilities include deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, live capture and offline analysis, standard three-pane packet browser, runs on most platforms. Captured network data can be browsed via a GUI, or via the TTY-mode TShark utility; rich VoIP analysis; read/write a very wide variety of different capture file formats. Live data can be read from Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, PPP/HDLC, ATM, Bluetooth, USB, Token Ring, Frame Relay, FDDI, and others. Decryption support for many protocols, including IPsec, ISAKMP, Kerberos, SNMPv3, SSL/TLS, WEP, and WPA/WPA2. Coloring rules can be applied to the packet list for quick, intuitive analysis. Output can be exported to XML, PostScript, CSV, or plain text
TPTest - An open source software suite for testing network throughput and Internet services. It consists of a software library with test functions that can be implemented in test client and server applications. Reference client/server apps are also included.
BWMeter - Bandwidth meter, monitor and traffic controller, which measures, displays and controls all traffic to/from computer(s) or on your network. Can analyze the data packets (where they come from, where they go, which port and protocol they use). For Windows platforms. Shareware.
Fiddler - HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler includes a powerful event-based scripting subsystem, and can be extended using any .NET language. Can debug traffic from virtually any application. For Windows platforms. Freeware.
HTTP Interceptor - Low cost pseudo Proxy server that performs http diagnostics and enables viewing of the two way communication between browser and the Internet. View http, asp, http header, data headers, responses. Demo version Free and paid versions available.
Expecco - A component based, modular test and quality assurance platform from eXept Software AG, which aims at the consolidation of tests and partial test systems into an automated, interactive test center. Enables productivity improvement in creation and maintenance of test scenarios, includes extensive debug features and flexible integration into existing enterprises. Features include utilization of UML 2.0 and Selenium libraries.
Aptixia IxLoad - Highly scalable, integrated test solution from Ixia Inc. for assessing the performance of Triple Play (Voice, Video and Data services) networks and devices. IxLoad emulates IPTV and Triple Play subscribers and associated protocols to ensure subscriber Quality of Experience (QoE). Protocols supported include video protocols like IGMP, MLD, and RTSP; voice protocols like SIP and MGCP; and data protocols like HTTP, FTP, and SMTP. Can be used to test critical aspects of the infrastructure like DNS, DHCP, RADIUS, and LDAP services, as well generate malicious traffic to test for security. Also available are a wide variety of other related performance test tools to help accelerate the migration of communications and entertainment to IP.
Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar - Microsoft add-on for IE that includes some tools for that can be useful for web testing. Includes tools to explore a page's document object model (DOM), locate and select specific elements on a Web page through a variety of techniques, view HTML object class names, ID's, and details such as link paths, tab index values, and access keys; validate HTML, CSS, WAI, and RSS web feed links; view the formatted and syntax colored source of HTML and CSS; and more.
Web Service Scheduler - WSS is an online cron service that can execute custom scripts remotely, for websites hosted on a web server with no access to a scheduling utility like cron or task scheduler. To use, just login and add the URL of the web service or script (PHP, ASP, CGI) and the time you would like the service to run. Basic account is free.
Chickenfoot - An open source Firefox extension from MIT that creates a programming environment in the Firefox sidebar, enables writing of scripts to manipulate web pages and automate web browsing. Scripts are written in a superset of Javascript that includes special functions specific to web tasks.
WebAii - Free web automation framework from Telerik that helps developers easily write functional tests for AJAX and Silverlight applications. The framework offers one consistent API that allows users to automate the UI of web applications as part of regression testing. Besides Silverlight support, a key benefit of WebAii Testing Framework is the browser abstraction, which allows developers to create a test once and execute it against all major browsers – IE, FF, and Safari for Windows are currently supported.
sketchPath - Free XPath Editor and XML analysis and testing tool by Phil Fearon supporting XPath 1.0 and 2.0. Capabilities includes: Provides integrated graphical environment for viewing XML files, developing and testing XPath expressions against them and managing the expressions in file libraries. Auto-Generate XPath locations by selecting from XPath result list, regular expression result list, element tree view, element nodes list, XML text editor, etc. Import XPath Expressions from an XML source (eg. XSLT). auto-complete uses 'Look-Ahead' to list available location and value nodes when typing, XSD schema validation with fully-navigable invalid elements list. Use regular expressions to resolve XPath locations. And more. For Windows platforms.
soapUI - A free, open source desktop application from Eviware/SmartBear Software for inspecting, invoking, developing, simulating/mocking and functional/load/compliance testing of web services over HTTP. It is mainly aimed at developers/testers providing and/or consuming web services (java, .net, etc). Functional and Load-Testing can be done both interactively in soapUI or within an automated build/integration process using the soapUI command-line tools. Mock Web Services can be created for any WSDL and hosted from within soapUI or using the command-line MockService runner. IDE-plugins available for eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans and a specialized eclipse-plugin for JBossWS. Paid 'pro' version available with professional support and extended functionality.
SOAPscope Server - Web services test tool from Mindreef Inc./Progress Software; create test scenarios automatically by recording actions; share these with other testers in collaborative server-baaed UI. View WSDL and SOAP messages in Pseudocode ViewTM. Create complex tests including passing values from a response to subsequent requests, perform batch testing and validate results all without coding. Simulate web services that don't yet exist, or new scenarios for those that do.
Parasoft SOAtest - Scriptless web services test tool from Parasoft. Automatic test creation from WSDL, WSIL, UDDI and HTTP Traffic. Capabilities include WSDL validation, load and performance testing; graphically model and test complex scenarios. Automatically creates security penetration tests for SQL injections, XPath injections, parameter fuzzing, XML bombs, and external entities. Data-driven testing through data sources such as Excel, CSV, DB queries, etc. Support for JMS; MIME attachment support.
QEngine - ManageEngine QEngine Web Service Functional Test tool automates functional testing of web services that are bound with the SOAP/HTTP binding. Automatically generates test scripts from a WSDL document and validates every operation published in the WSDL document. The responses to each SOAP/HTTP request can be validated against the data sources such as CSV or Database.
Fault Factory - API-level fault injection tool from from Extradata Technologies; injects HTTP/SOAP/Socket faults into an application - no code changes, no proxies required. Injects two types of faults: socket API failures and arbitrary HTTP responses (that can be used to imitate a wide range of conditions, including SOAP faults). Can be used standalone or in combination with a debugger. Language-neutral. For Windows platforms.
XML-Simulator - Black-box test tool from Elvior for applications using asynchronous XML messaging to communicate with different systems. Customizable to support any XML protocol.
Tools4Internet - Free on-the-web tools for determination/testing of various web page/site characteristics; results presented in convenient tabbed summary format. Includes browser/server security information tool for viewing details of http headers sent from web server and browser, along with other information obtainable via javascript and other publicly available means. Web Content Analysis capability includes response time, web page code comments lines, anchors, scripts, etc.
Firebug - Open source add-on tool for Firefox - allows editing, debugging, and monitoring of CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. Monitor network activity, visualize CSS metrics, information about errors in JavaScript, CSS, and XML. Includes DOM explorer; execute JavaScript on the fly.
GH Tester - Middleware test automation tool, from Green Hat Consulting Limited, for testing systems that do not have graphical user interfaces including web services, JMS, IBM MQ, Sonic MQ, TIBCO, TCP/IP, UDP/IP and SmartSockets. Includes an API enabling writing of your own transports. Schema-aware message editors for XML (DTD and XSD), SOAP (WSDL) and AE. Other capabilities: automatically create test plan documentation, record and playback messages, integrate with databases to simulate adapters by querying or changing rows, produce detailed reports on actual test results and expectations, including any differences
Filemon - Free tool from Microsoft monitors and displays Windows file system activity on a system in real-time. Timestamping feature shows when every open, read, write or delete, happens, and its status column indicates outcome. Useful in security testing, monitoring/testing of web servers etc. Also available (links available on Filemon page): RegMon - a Registry monitor; Process Monitor - a process and thread monitor; DiskMon - a hard disk monitor.
AceLive - Tool from OpNet Technologies Inc. for end-user experience monitoring and application performance management. Spans network monitoring, measurement, and detection of SLA violations, and can bridges seamlessly into integrated and detailed transaction-level troubleshooting with OPNET’s ACE Analyst.
Charles - An HTTP proxy/monitor/Reverse Proxy that enables viewing all HTTP traffic between browser and the Internet, including requests, responses and HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information). Capabilities include HTTP/SSL and variable modem speed simulation. Useful for XML development in web browsers, such as AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) and XMLHTTP, as it enables viewing of actual XML between the client and the server. Can autoconfigure browser's proxy settings on MSIE, Firefox, Safari. Java application from XK72 Ltd.
Paessler Site Inspector - A web browser that combines MSIE and Mozilla/Gecko into one program; it's Analyzing Browser allows switching between the two browser engines with the click of a mouse to compare. Freeware.
CookiePie Firefox Extension - Firefox extension from Sebastian Wain enabling maintenance of different cookies in different tabs and windows. For example developers working on web software supporting multiple users or profiles can use CookiePie to simultaneously test their software with each user without needing to open a different browser
.
.
Broken Link Preventer - Link checker that reports on broken links, reports statistics on user attempts to access broken links, and enables broken link prevention. Runs on server and constantly monitors site links.
JsUnit - An open-source unit testing framework for client-side (in-browser) JavaScript in the tradition of the XUnit frameworks
Web Performance Advanced Server Analysis - Add-on module for the Web Performance Inc. Load Tester tool from Web Performance Inc. Automatically points out performance problems in your operating system or application server; tracks performance counters in the operating system or application server during a load test, marking those statistics that are obviously out of spec so you can quickly identify obvious performance problems. Statistics can be viewed during the test and reviewed later in reports for more detailed analysis.
Eclipse TPTP Testing Tools Project - TPTP (Test & Performance Tools Platform) is a subproject of Eclipse, an open platform for tool integration. TPTP provides frameworks for building testing tools by extending the TPTP Platform. The framework contains testing editors, deployment and execution of tests, execution environments and associated execution history analysis and reporting. The project also includes exemplary tools for JUnit based component testing tool, Web application performance testing tool, and a manual testing tool. The project supports the OMG UML2 Test Profile.
Test Architect - Keyword-driven test automation tool from LogiGear helps increase test coverage. Built-in playback support for web-based application and other platforms.
Networking and Server Test Utilities - Small collection of web server and other test utilities provided by hq42.net.
Morae - Usability test tool for web sites and software, from TechSmith Corp. for automated recording, analyzing and sharing of usability data. Consists of 3 components. A Recorder records and synchronizes video and data, creating a digital record of system activity and user interaction. A Remote Viewer enables geographically dispersed observers to watch usability tests from any location; it displays test user's computer screen along with a picture-in-picture window displaying the test participant's face and audio; Remote Viewer observers can set markers and add text notes. The Manager component includes integrated editing functionality for assembly of important video clips to share with stakeholders.
AutoTestFlash - Freeware tool by Tiago Simoes for recording and playing back UI Tests in flash applications. Source code also available.
Repro - Manual testing 'helper' tool that records desktop video, system operations in 7 different categories, system resource usage, and system configuration information. Allows user to save and review relevant information for bug reports, and compress the result into a very small file to replay, upload to a bug tracking system, and share with others. Instruments in memory the target application at runtime so no changes are required to application under test. For Windows
.
.
TestGen - Free open-source web test data generation program that allows developers to quickly generate test data for their web-services before publicly or internally releasing the web service for production.
EngineViewer and SiteTimer - Free basic services: EngineViewer - reports on how a search engine may view a webpage, from how it breaks down the HTML, to which links it extracts, how it interprets page's robot exclusion rules and more. SiteTimer service - Find out how long it takes various connection types to get a page, check all the graphical links to ensure they're correct, examine server's HTTP headers, more.
Fiddler - An HTTP Debugging tool by Eric Lawrence. Acts as an HTTP Proxy running on port 8888 of local PC. Any application which accepts an HTTP Proxy can be configured to run through Fiddler. Logs all HTTP traffic between computer and the Internet, and allows inspection of the HTTP data, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Designed to be much simpler than using NetMon or Achilles, and includes a simple but powerful JScript.NET event-based scripting subsystem. Free, for Windows.
FREEping - Free ping software utility from Tools4ever which will ping all your Windows-based servers (or any other IP address) in freely-definable intervals. Will send a popup when one of the servers stops responding.
IP Traffic Test and Measure - Network traffic simulation and test tool from Omnicor Corp. can generate TCP/UDP connections using different IP addresses; data creation or capture and replay; manage and monitor throughput, loss, and delay.
VisitorVille - Site traffic monitoring tool from World Market Watch Inc. that depicts website visitors as animated characters in a virtual village; users can watch their web traffic as if they're watching a movie.
Sandra - 'System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant' utility from SiSoftware. Provides large variety of information about a Windows system's hardware and software. Includes CPU, mainboard, drives, ports, processes, modules, services, device drivers, ODBC sources, memory details, environment settings, system file listings, and much more. Provides performance enhancing tips, tune-up wizard, file system and memory bandwidth benchmarking, more. Reporting via save/print/fax/email in text, html, XML, etc. Free, Professional, and other versions available in multiple languages.
Deque - Deque Ramp is a cross-platform solution for testing and remediating websites and Web-based applications for integrated accessibility and Section 508 compliance. Audits and corrects accessibility violations and helps organizations develop long-term practices to enhance accessibility for users with disabilities. Available versions include Ramp Personal Edition, Ramp Grade, and Ramp Ascend. Ramp PE version is free for some user categories such as non-profit organizations. Other products include Worldspace Online, an online accessibility test and repair tool.
Dummynet - Flexible tool developed by Luigi Rizzo, originally designed for testing networking protocols, can be used in testing to simulate queue and bandwidth limitations, delays, packet losses, and multipath effects. Can be used on user's workstations, or on FreeBSD machines acting as routers or bridges.
HTTP Interceptor - A real-time HTTP protocol analysis and troubleshooting tool from AllHTTP.com. View all headers and data that travel between your browser and the server. Split-screen display and dual logs for request and response data. Interceptor also allows changing of select request headers on-the-fly, such as "Referrer" and "User Agent".
SpySmith - Simple but powerful diagnostic tool from Quality Forge; especially useful when testing web sites and web-based applications. It allows the user to peek inside I.E. Browser-based Documents (including those without a 'view source' command) to extract precise information about the DOM elements in an HTML source. SpySmith can also spy on Windows objects. For Windows. Free 90-day trial.
Co-Advisor - Tool from The Measurement Factory for testing quality of protocol implementations. Co-Advisor can test for protocol compatibility, compliance, robustness, security, and other quality factors. Has modules for HTTP (RFC 2616) and ICAP (RFC 3507) protocols . Other info: runs on FreeBSD packages, Linux RPMs, Windows (on-demand); available as on-line service, binaries, or source code.
PocketSOAP - Packet-capture tool by Simon Fell, with GUI; captures and displays packet data between local client and specified web server. Can log captures to disk. For Windows; binaries and source available; freeware. Also available is PocketXML-RPC and PocketHTTP.
TcpTrace - Tool by Simon Fell acts as a relay between client and server for monitoring packet data. Works with all text-based IP protocols. For windows; freeware
ProxyTrace - Tool by Simon Fell acts as a proxy server to allow tracing of HTTP data; can be used by setting browser to use it as a proxy server and then can monitor all traffic to and from browser. Freeware.
tcptrace - Tool written by Shawn Ostermann for analysis of TCP dumpfiles, such as those produced by tcpdump, snoop, etherpeek, HP Net Metrix, or WinDump. Can produce various types of output with info on each connection seen such as elapsed time, bytes, and segments sent and received, retransmissions, round trip times, window advertisements, throughput, and various graphs. Available for various UNIX flavors, for Windows, and as source code; freeware.
MITS.Comm - Tool from Omsphere LLC for simulating virtually any software interface (internal or external). Allows testing without pitfalls associated with live connections to other systems (TCP/IP, Ethernet, FTP, etc). Allows developers to test down to the unit level by simulating the internal software interfaces (message queues, mailboxes, etc.) Tool can learn what request/response scenarios are being tested for future tests and can work with any protocol, any message definitions, and any network. Also available: MITS.GUI
XML Conformance Test Suite - XML conformance test suites from W3C and NIST; contains over 2000 test files and an associated test report (also in XML). The test report contains background information on conformance testing for XML as well as test descriptions for each of the test files. This is a set of metrics for determining conformance to the listed W3C XML Recommendation.
Certify - Test automation management tool from WorkSoft, Inc. For managing and developing test cases and scripts, and generating test scripts. For automated testing of Web, client/server, and mainframe applications. Runs on Windows platforms.
HiSoftware AccVerify - Tool for testing site accessibility, usability, searchability, privacy and Intellectual Property policy verification; from HiSoftware Inc. Also custom checks and test suites to meet organization's standards. Can crawl a site and report errors; can also programmatically fix most common errors found. Runs on Windows.
HiSoftware Web Site Monitor - Tool allows user to monitor servers and send alerts, allows monitoring web sites for changes or misuse of intellectual property in metadata or in the presented document; link validation. From HiSoftware Inc.
Web Optimizer - Web page optimizing tool from Visionary Technologies intelligently compresses web pages to accelerate web sites without changing site's appearance. Removes unnecessary information in HTML, XML, XHTML, CSS, and Javascript and includes GIF and JPEG optimizer techniques.
HTML2TXT - Conversion utility that converts HTML as rendered in MS Internet Explorer into ASCII text while accurately preserving the layout of the text. Included with software are examples of using the control from within Visual Basic, Visual C++, and HTML.
Team Remote Debugger - Debugging tool from Spline Technologies allows tracing of any number of code units of any kind ( ASP, MTS, T-SQL, COM+, ActiveX Exe, DLL, COM, Thread, CFML ), written in any language ( ASP, VB, VC++, Delphi, T-SQL, VJ, CFML ) residing on multiple shared and dedicated servers at the same time, without ever attaching to process. Remote code can pass messages and dialogs directly to your local machine via Team Remote Debugger component, and developers can then debug their respective code independently of one another no matter if the code units reside on the same servers or on different servers or on any combination thereof.
Datatect - Test data generator from Banner Software generates data to a flat file or ODBC-compliant database; includes capabilities such as scripting support that allows user to write VBScripts that modify data to create XML output, data generation interface to Segue SilkTest, capability to read in existing database table structures to aid in data generation, wide variety of data types and capabilities for custom data types. For Windows.
Triometric Performance Analyzer Suite - Suite of software protocol analyzers from Triometric accurately calculates end-to-end download speeds for each transaction, not just samples; produces a range of configurable reports that breaks down info into network and server speeds, errors, comparison to SLA's, performance for each server, client, URL, time period, etc
.
.
WebBug - Debugging tool from Aman Software for monitoring HTTP protocol sends and receives; handles HTTP 0.9/1.0/1.1; allows for entry of custom headers. Freeware.
NIST Web Metrics Testbed - Web usability testing and evaluation tool suite from U.S. Govt. NIST. Source code available. For UNIX, Windows.
MRTG - Multi Router Traffic Grapher - free tool by Tobi Oetiker utilizing SNMP to monitoring traffic loads on network links; generates reports as web pages with GIF graphics on inbound and outbound traffic. For UNIX, Windows.
