In this session you will learn:
Software Testing Tool – Overview
Advantage- Automation
Disadvantage - Automation
Grouping of Automation Tool
Functional Tool
Source Code Testing Tool
Performance Tool
Test Management Tool
Security Testing Tool
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Software Testing Tool – Overview
Software testing tools are of immense use to develop quality software .
Automated software testing is the best way to increase the effectiveness,
efficiency and coverage of your software testing.
Need for automation Testing tool
Manual testing is time – consuming , error prone and requires lot of
infrastructure and manpower All this drawbacks can be overcome if the
testing process is automated. The testing tool reduce manual testing effort
to large extend and the testing can be done automatically
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Advantage- Automation
• Reliable: Tests perform precisely the same operations each time they are
run, thereby eliminating human error
• Repeatable: You can test how the software reacts under repeated
execution of the same operations.
• Programmable: You can program sophisticated tests that bring out hidden
information from the application.
• Comprehensive: You can build a suite of tests that covers every feature in
your applicaation.
• Reusable: You can reuse tests on different versions of an application, even
if the user interface changes.
• Better Quality Software: Because you can run more tests in less time with
fewer resources
• Fast: Automated Tools run tests significantly faster than human users.
• Economical: As the number of resources for regression test are reduced.
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Disadvantage - Automation
It’s Not Easy! - Writing test automation scripts is not an easy task. You really
need testers who are experienced in doing this otherwise it will go horribly
wrong and you will end up spending even more money and time than if done
manually.
Automation Script Errors- If an error is made in the test automation scripts
which is undetected, it could be fatal for the project since the correct testing
won’t have been done. In fact you may not even realize the error until the
software launches and then falls over.
Scope Changes- Every project will have to implement change request
management. However despite best endeavours there will still be some
which get through. The problem with this is that it may require the test
automation scripts to be reprogrammed or redesigned. This may be the case
even when there is a minor change in the user interface of the software.
Complexity- With the increase in the number of requirements (business
requirements documentation and software requirements specification) that
are to be tested, this leads to more and more complexity which makes the
maintenance of test data extremely difficult.
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Grouping of Automation Tool
A wide variety of software testing tools are available to support different
software , programming languages , types of testing
These tools are broadly divided into the following categories :
• Functional/Regression testing tool
• Source code testing tool
• Performance testing tool
• Java testing tool
• Embedded software testing tool
• Test Management testing tool
• Security testing tool
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Functional Tool
Functional tool can be used to the software application and web application such as
web sites. Majority of the application involve Graphical user interface (GUI). These
tool will test the GUI objects and functionality automatically
This tool also called as Regression tool because whenever there are changes made in
application/application / web site, all the test need to be re- run.
List of Functional Testing tools :
• Telerik TestStudio
• HP-QuickTest Professional
• Watir
• TOSCA Testsuite
• Selenium
• Visual Studio Test Professional
• Rational Functional Tester
• TestComplete
• TestPartner
• SOA Test
• TestDrive
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Source Code Testing Tool
Tools check the source code of the application. This is white box type of
testing , Many numbers of tools are available for checking line coverage
,branch coverage and path coverage . Profilers display the number of times
each line is executed .
The test engineer can study the output of the profiler to find out which
portion of code are not executed and then create test cases to make sure
those lines of code is executed .
Many tools are available to test the whether the source code is compliant to
the standard guide lines and generate the metrics such as number of non-
commented lines , number of commented lines , number of functions etc .
There are tools available which check the portability of the code .
List of source code tools are
• Aqtime
• Parasoft Insure++
• Telelogic Logiscope
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Performance Tool
These tools are used to carry performance testing or stress testing and very
useful to test how the application or software works when multiple users
access the application simultaneously . Application can be web site or
Database. These tools simulate multiple users on a single machine and hence
do not need many machines and testers to perform the performance testing.
• Performance Testing Techniques:
• Load testing
• Stress Testing
• Soak testing
• Spike testing
• Attributes of Performance testing :
• Speed
• Scalability
• Stability
• Reliability
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Java Testing Tool
As java programming language has become more popular in recent year , a
number of tools are available exclusively for testing Java applications. These
tools are used to test Java Classes
List of Java tools are :
• Jmeter
• Jtest
• Junit
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Embedded Software Testing tool
Embedded software is computer software, written to control machines or
devices that are not typically thought of as computers. It is typically
specialized for the particular hardware that it runs on and has time and
memory constraints.
In Embedded systems the code has to be optimized so that it occupies the
minimum memory
IBM - Rational Test RealTime
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Test Management Tool
Test Management encompasses anything and everything that we do as
testers.
Our day-to-day activities include:
• Creating and maintaining release/project cycle/component
information
• Creating and maintaining the test artifacts specific to each
release/cycle that we have- requirements, test cases, etc.
• Establishing traceability and coverage between the test assets
• Test execution support – test suite creation, test execution
status capture, etc.
• Metric collection/report-graph generation for analysis
• Bug tracking/defect management
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List of Test Management Tool:
• HP ALM/Quality Center
• qTest
• JIRA
• QMetry
• TestRail
• IBM Rational Quality Manager
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Security Testing Tool
Security testing is basically a type of software testing that’s done to check
whether the application or the product is secured or not. It checks to see if
the application is vulnerable to attacks, if anyone hack the system or login to
the application without any authorization
The six basic security concepts that need to be covered by security testing
are:
• Confidentiality
• Integrity
• Authentication
• Availability
• Authorization
• Non-repudiation
