CS 490 Software Testing

Spring 2011

Testing Tools

 

Each team is required to select five testing tools from the list given below. Each tool must be from a different category listed in the leftmost column labeled "Task." A tool not listed here may also be selected upon approval from the instructor. A consolidated list of open source software testing tools is available here.

Download the tool, learn to use it and prepare a brief, at most 15 minutes, presentation. The presentation will be on Thursdays as per the schedule available here. The presentation must include answers to the following questions:

1. Who (company or individual) developed the tool?
2. What testing purpose does the tool serve?
3. What programming language(s) does the tool support, if any?
4. In what phase of software tetsing is the tool useful?
5. What are the strengths and limitations of the tool?

Answers to the above questions should be followed by a brief demo of the tool.

Task	Tool
Unit testing	JUnit, Achoo PyUnit
Code coverage measurement	Cobertura
Performance and load testing	JMeter OpenWebLoad
Stress testing	Deluge
Bug tracking	FogBugz Bugzilla Testopia Bugzilla
Combinatorial designs	ACTS
Test Management	QATraq
Test automation	TestAutomation
Specification based testing	SpecExplorer ModelJUnit
Concurrency testing	Chess ConTest