Software Testing Tools Blog – Testertools

Testilence is an open-source unit testing library for PHP 5. It is published under the MIT license which means you are free and welcome to use it in any way. Like other JUnit inspired unit testing libraries, Testilence roughly follows the canon . It is however written with emphasis on what’s useful, not what’s usual, and combines original ideas with the best features found in different unit-testing toolkits into a coherent set.

Testilence differs from the above-mentioned canon in that you only get to have one assertion per test method (this is a Good Thing):

1. Multi-assertion test methods reduce test coverage, since the first failed assertion will abort the test method, skipping latter assertions in that method.

2. Single-assertion test methods provide the author with a strong incentive to think about the PUT, because each test method should name a behavior. Thinking of meaningful names for all the tests is sometimes painful, but the reward is a better understanding of the code.

3. Single-assertion test methods provide clearer picture to the reader.

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XLTest is a spreadsheet intergity tool that allows users to check the integrity of spreadsheets far more quickly than with tedious cell-by-cell inspection

Features of the tool include

Start new test session: Open workbook for testing, start new log, $APP sheet

Create $DOC sheet for Workbook documentation

Reset workbook settings, hidden rows, columns, sheets

Create $INF sheets of detailed cell inspections

This creates a sheet $INF  that summarises the warnings on the sheet. The addresses are hyperlinked to a named range referring to the cells. The sheet lists the #Error values, the error and warnings checks, some formula statistics, a list of functions used, any circular reference chain, and the number formats in use.

List / Colour cells by distinct formula (R1C1) - Shows inconsistent formula blocks

List / Colour Conditional Format Formulas  – Shows inconsistent conditional format rules

List / Colour Data Validation Formulas  – Shows inconsistent validation rules

The XLTest toolbar

To learn more, download the 19-page set of screenshots (1MB PDF) showing you what it does.

QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.

When used as a machine emulator, QEMU can run OSes and programs made for one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine (e.g. your own PC). By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performances

When used as a virtualizer, QEMU achieves near native performances by executing the guest code directly on the host CPU. A host driver called the QEMU accelerator (also known as KQEMU) is needed in this case. The virtualizer mode requires that both the host and guest machine use x86 compatible processors.

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Looking for a way to see how your web creations will look on iPhone? Look no further. iPhoney gives you a pixel-accurate web browsing environment—powered by Safari—that you can use when developing web sites for iPhone. It’s the perfect 320 by 480-pixel canvas for your iPhone development. And it’s free.

iPhoney is not an iPhone simulator but instead is designed for web developers who want to create 320 by 480 (or 480 by 320) websites for use with iPhone. It gives you a canvas on which to test the visual quality of your designs. If you have questions about iPhoney, visit our issue tracker on SourceForge as our support team doesn’t provide technical support for iPhoney.

We’ve added a few handy features to iPhoney 1.2, and it is still open source so that talented developers from around the world can make it the best tool for testing iPhone-compatible web creations. What’s new in version 1.2:

* View source to see the source code for the page you’re viewing, great for checking iPhone targeted pages.
* Localized for Norwegian, French, and German users.

iPhacts.

iPhoney requires Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later. Here’s some of what you can do with iPhoney:

* Test your iPhone-enabled Web 2.0 applications and compatible web sites.
* Open any website that works with Safari (use Safari 3 beta for the most accurate experience).
* Rotate to see websites in either portrait or landscape orientation.
* Show or hide the location bar for a full-screen iPhone experience.
* Simulate the iPhone user agent, to test browser redirection scripts.
* Zoom out to see how your current pages might look while zoomed out on iPhone.
* Turn off plug-ins (including Flash, but note that they all turn off (including QuickTime).
* Automatic updates with Sparkle, s
o you’ll always know if there’s a new version.
* And of course, open source code so you can contribute to iPhoney’s rapid development.

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Question: What steps will you need to take and what deliverables will you need to produce in order to manage your next project?

Answer: Let the Project Planning Roadmap lead the way.

To produce required deliverables, on time and on budget, projects have to be defined. What are the goals? What are the requirements? What are the risks? Will we need to prepare a Statement of Work and when would it be due? Will we need a Communication Plan and who will do it? How will we know if we are successful?

These questions, and more, have to be answered, and it takes it a process to get that done. And that process has to be planned and managed. The Project Planning Roadmap, featuring the new “Project Process Plan”, is a roadmap template guiding project process planning and execution.

* Identify project process requirements – to define your project and plan project process deliverables.
* Schedule due dates for project process requirements and deliverables.
* Set resource assignments for process requirements and deliverables.
* Set and track current status for requirements and deliverables development.
* Share completed Project Process Plans for review and comment.

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Capedit is an Open Source PCAP Based Network Protocol Testing Tool.

Containing a Wireshark Like GUI Interface the app is Developed In C and GTK+ (Currently Supported on Linux only).

Features include:

* Protocol Field Value Modification.
* Packet Deletion.
* Packet Duplication.
* Packet Reordering.
* TCP and UDP Stream based Field Value Modification.
* IP and MAC Address Find And Replace
* Auto CheckSum for IP, ICMP, IGMP, TCP and UDP Protocols.
* Interface Selection For Sending Packets.
* Option for Sending Single Selected Packet.
* Pcap Replay.

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Test Conductor is a complete automation and regression framework for Ixia and third-party test applications. Tests can be organized into test groupings and used for development, QA and regression testing.

The changing nature of the IP networking industry has created challenges for the IP network quality assurance teams. Technology advances are occurring at an ever accelerating pace. At the same time, the pressures to bring new and innovative products to market faster with higher quality and performance continue. The convergence of services delivered over IP has created new network demands that call for new solutions.

Test Conductor is a complete multivendor test automation framework for IP network testing teams. It’s easy-to-learn and use testing environment covers every aspect of test automation from test authoring, test and resource management, regression definition and execution, scheduling and trends analysis.

The Test Conductor framework provides the right set of tools that enable integration of lab elements from different vendors in a lab environment. By using a generic and extensible integration approach, the automation benefits are realized not just on Ixia equipment, but across all elements of a lab. These include but are not limited to devices under test, WAN emulation tools, physical layer switches and a variety of test devices.

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The Google Chrome Developer Tools provide an integrated environment for debugging, optimizing, and understanding a web application, or website, running in Google Chrome. The developer tools are developed partly through the open source project, WebKit, where the tools are called Web Inspector.

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Mouseover DOM Inspector, or MODI for short, is a favelet (also known as a bookmarklet) that allows you to view and manipulate the DOM of a web page simply by mousing around the document.

Very nice tool to identify the html object properties.

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* What best describes the platform of your planned project?
* What best describes the primary development environment to be used?
* What best describes the development type?
* Which phases are included in your estimate?
* What is the expected size of the functionality to be delivered (in IFPUG function points)?

ISBSG is a ‘best practice’ project repository

The ISBSG Repository probably represents the best performing 25% of industry projects. As such it’s a great way to benchmark your projects against ‘best practice’. When reality checking your estimates, take this into account, especially if your expectations are rated as optimistic. Some projects might also appear to be under-performing when, compared to common practice, they may be considered ‘average’.

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