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TamperIE Web Security Tool is a small utility that enables HTML-form tampering for penetration testing of web applications.

TamperIE is an Internet Explorer Browser Helper Object which allows tampering with HTTP requests from Internet Explorer 5 and above.

TamperIE is a useful tool for security testing your web applications, in order to ensure you don’t make foolish assumptions about the data sent by client browsers.

Since the tool exposes and allows tampering with otherwise inconvenient input, many user-input security flaws immediately become apparent.   SSL? TamperIE works inside IE itself, before data is placed on the wire; this means that it works fine even against SSL secured sites.

Online Database Functions Testing Tool

One of the key factors in building software applications is development time.  One of the solutions to reducing development time is to use user friendly software development tools which help the developer complete the job quickly.  In any software application there may be many database functions; these functions will be tested several times when they are used in many places in the application.  Early testing helps to lay cleaner code and saves time in further stages of the application build.

Traditionally, testing the function meant launching SQL Plus then typing the SQL commands.  This tool enables testing database functions with mouse clicks; it is very convenient and should save application development/testing time.  The tool supports Oracle and SQL Server databases; it can also extend to other databases such as DB2 and Informix with minor modifications.

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Configuring the Tool

Read Functions from a Database

Display Function Parameters

Execute the Functions with Input Values

GCT was my third coverage tool.  It instruments C code in a source-to-source translation, then passes the instrumented code to a compiler.  Its first major use was on a Unix kernel, so it is suitable for measuring the coverage of embedded systems.

In addition to branch and multiple-condition coverage, it also has boundary-condition and loop coverage.  I find those useful and inexpensive types of coverage, and I’m disappointed that more coverage tools don’t include them.

It also contains a type of coverage we used for evaluating stress testing of a multiprocessor kernel.

However: GCC was written in 1992 using the GNU C compiler (gcc) as a base.  For reasons too boring to explain, it still has most of the original GCC code in it.   The practical effect of that is that porting GCT is not as trivial as it should be. Although there are Linux and Solaris ports, I do not have appropriate configuration files for them.  (If you do, please send them to me.)  There are no ports to any version of Windows or other non-Unix operating systems.  I would be stunned to see one.

Since GCT is based on gcc 1.x, it does not handle some gcc 2.x constructs.  There has been a mostly-completed port from gcc 1.x to 2.x, but I have not used it myself.

GCC has no GUI for looking at coverage results.  The output is formatted like error messages from a compiler.  It comes with an Emacs mode (based on M-x next-error) that I rather liked.  But non-Emacs users are left out in the cold – as they are in so many things.

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If you are looking for alternative of manual testing, then start with iTestBot test automation tool.

iTestBot – interfaceiTestBot is an interface automation testing software with the support of Pascal-like syntax. It allows to create scripts to Test interface of software systems just like human testers would do it. iTestBot does not just emulate mouse clicks or button clicks, the iTestBot allows user to specify some image sample to be found n the screen and do some action with this sample. For instance, it can find image sample and then focus mouse on it or move the mouse relatively.

The software is powerful enough as it use Pascal syntax inside, this means that user can create scripts with variables, cycles (for, until), procedures and functions, include external unit. Check more about Pascal-like syntax in iTestBot.

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