4. Selenium IDE
Firefox Add-on
What it user/browser sees
Black box testing
Simply record a flow
Add assertions
Build test cases and test suites
You can even do dynamic stuff with JavaScript
5. soapUI
Stand-alone GUI
Web Service testing (WSDL)
Create test cases and test suites
Dynamic stuff using embedded Groovy
Also handles REST and more
6. Apache JMeter
Stand-alone GUI
Stress and performance testing
Mainly HTTP(S), but also e.g. FTP or JDBC
Use as a proxy to record requests/responses
Visual programming language
Output as graphs and/or CSV data
7. The Nightly Build
You can run Selenium IDE test suites from CLI
On a headless server use Xvfb
You can run soapUI test suites from CLI
You can run JMeter test suites from CLI
Which means you can easily add them to CI
(e.g. Jenkins)
8. Why go beyond?
— the average defect detection
rate is only 25 percent for unit testing, 35
percent for function testing, and 45 percent for
integration testing.
Steve McConnell, Code Complete
9. Testing is not enough
… software testing alone has limited
effectiveness — the average defect detection
rate is only 25 percent for unit testing, 35
percent for function testing, and 45 percent for
integration testing. In contrast, the average
effectiveness of design and code inspections
are 55 and 60 percent
Steve McConnell, Code Complete
10. Testing is not enough
… software testing alone has limited
effectiveness — the average defect detection
rate is only 25 percent for unit testing, 35
percent for function testing, and 45 percent for
integration testing. In contrast, the average
effectiveness of design and code inspections
are 55 and 60 percent
Steve McConnell, Code Complete
