Tools for Software Testing

December 08, 2017 by Julia Atlygina

Screenshots

• Jing
• Monosnap capture full screen or area, record video as mp4 or GIF. Very user friendly.
• Recordit

Prototyping

• Balsamiq (paid) - desktop application that allows quickly creating prototypes for your software. Most of the actions have hotkeys so after some time using it becomes super effective.
• Pencil (FF Addon)

Preparing Test Data

• Mockaroo
• generatedata.com
• Loren Ipsum
• Bugmagnet
• Lorempixel
• Form Filler (Chrome Plugin)

Pairwise

• Pairwiser - online version seems to be shutting down, desktop version costs a lot of money.

Validators

• W3C Checklink
• W3C HTML validator

Performance

• WebPageTest
• PageSpeed Insights
• YSlow comes as a plugin for all popular browsers as well as a standalone utility.
• GTmetrix
• Lighthouse
• BlazeMeter

Compatibility Checkers

• ModernIE
• Browserstack (paid)
• Saucelabs.com (paid)
• TestObject (free & paid) - testing mobile apps on real devices.

Security

• XSS Me (FF Addon)
• SQL Inject Me (FF Addon)

Web Proxies

• Fiddler
• Charles

Generic Web Testing

• WebDeveloper Chrome Plugin, FF Plugin

Test Management

• LeanTesting
• Moqa
• Checkvist
• Testpad
• Checklists base - plenty of ready to use checklists for popular scenarios.

Mind Maps

• MindMup
• XMind (desktop)
• MindMeister (paid, has plugins for Confluence)
• Coggle
• Yoikee (Confluence plugin)
• LucidChart​

Usability

• Userium
• CheckMyColours