SOFTWARE TESTING TOOL FINDER
Maintained by Cordell Vail,csteVail Consulting and Associates
This web page is intended to help you find testing tools
LOAD / PERFORMANCE TESTING TOOL LINKS:
Google Tool Search
Did a search in Google for top 20 entries for Stress, Load, Volume, Performance,
Benchmark, and Baseline testing tools
By Cordell Vail - search done 31 Jan 2006
Load Testing, Performance Testing, Volume Testing, and Stress Testing - TOOL COMPARISON
By Cordell Vail - 2005
Evaluation of all major Load and Performance tools
by Brian Merick - 2005 Brian Meric
www.webmastersolutions.com/services.html
Load Testing and web site monitoring tools and services
www.borland.com/us/products/optimizeit/index.html
Borland's "Optimizet Enterprise Suite" a Performance Solution for Java
www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-testsoap/
IBM Rational's Performance testing SOAP-based applications
www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/tester/performance/
IBM Rational Performance Tester
www.segue.com/products/load-stress-performance-testing/index.asp
Sague's SilkPerformer - Load, Stress & Performance Testing
www.mercury.com/us/products/performance-center/loadrunner
Mercury's LoadRunner
AUTOMATED TESTING TOOL LINKS:
Finding
The Right Automated Testing Tool
By Cordell Vail - 2002
Automate Testing Tool Comparison
By Ray Robinson - 2001
Cost
Benefits Analysis of Test Automation
By Doug Hoffmann (a StickyMinds article)
www.testcompress.com
TestCompress automated testing software
www.assess.com
Assessment systems Corporation. Software, books, and automated testing tools
www.sqa-test.com/articles.html
ATS Automated Testing Specialists - Automated Tests tools comparisons
www.logigear.com/resources/test_types/Automation.asp
Automation Testing Resources - by LogiGear
BENCHMARK TESTING TOOL LINKS:
tpc.org
Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC)... (note this is a subscription
service)
TESTING TOOL LINKS IN GENERAL (more than one kind on same
page):
www.sqa-test.com/toolpage.html
Lists most of the major testing tools and lots of links to other testing tool
pages
www.tejasconsulting.com
Web page with lots of links to papers, presentations and tool comparisons by
Danny R. Faught - 2006 (lots of tool references there)
www.qualitytree.com/feature/mtrc.pdf
"Making The Right Choice - The features you need in a GUI test automation tool"
by Elizabeth Hendrickson
www.grove.co.uk/Tool_Information/Choosing_Tools.html
Short Sharp Advice about how to choose a testing tool from Chapter 10 in the
book "Software Test Automation"
www.logigear.com/resources/other_resources/tools_utilities.asp
Testing Tool resources by LogiGear
www.softwareqatest.com/qatweb1.html
more than 300 tools listed in 12 categories - by Rick Hower
If it is not on this web page, you likely dont need it.....
http://testingfaqs.org/
An information resource for software testers - Test Tools List by type by Danny
Faught
www.softwaretestinginstitute.com/stivend.html
A list of resources for the software testing professional - the email address
of about every major software company and QA organization in the business
www.dbmsmag.com/pctest.html
Very extensive list of testing tools, cost and summary of features - DBMS Online
Buyer's Guide
WHITE PAPER LINKS ON TESTING METHOLODOGY AND TOOLS:
www.veritest.com/tn
Veritest Testers' Network - wealth of information about testing and testing
tools
www.io.com/~wazmo/qa/#test_automation
TEST AUTOMATION - Techniques and ideas for automating software testing - extensive
list of links - by Bret Pettichord
http://safsdev.sourceforge.net/FRAMESDataDrivenTestAutomationFrameworks.htm
TEST AUTOMATION FRAMEWORKS - Automated Testing Strategy Guidelines
http://www.qualitytree.com/autotest/index.htm
Automation Article links by Quality Tree Software
http://www.qualitytree.com/autotest/before.htm
Is your organization ready to Automate? by Quality Tree Software
www.logigear.com/about_us/press_releases/press_release.asp?prId=9
Action Based Testing (ABT) methodology - Hans Buwalda at LogiGear Corp
www.worksoft.com/
Certify automated testing tool - manage both manual and automated testing in a single repository - Linda Hayes - WorkSoft Inc
www.io.com/~wazmo/papers/seven_steps.html
Seven Steps to Test Automation Success - Bret Pettichord
www.kaner.com/
Improving the Maintainability of Automated Test Suites - Cem Kaner
www.satisfice.com/articles/test_automation_snake_oil.pdf
Test Automation Snake Oil by James Bach
www.vcaa.com/tools/AnAutomatedTestingAnalysis-CordellVail.pdf
An Automated Testing Analysis - Advantages and Disavantages of Automated Testing - by Cordell Vail
BULLETIN BOARDS, AND FORUMS
WHERE YOU CAN GET HELP WITH
TOOLS:
http://www.qaforums.com/
QAForums - Software Testing and Quality Assurance discussion site - over 50
forums
http://www.stickyminds.com/member.asp?Function=LOGIN&ReturnPage=forum%2Easp&CancelReturnPage=index.asp
StickyMinds.com discussion and message board
SOFTWARE TESTING BLOGS OF NOTE:
IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER - NOT BY ORDER OF PREFERENCE
blackbox.cs.fit.edu/blog/james/
James Bach
http://www.developsense.com/blog.html
Michael Bolton
www.qualitytree.com/ruminate/index.htm
ELizabeth Hendrickson
http://blogs.msdn.com/micahel/
Michael Hunter
www.testingreflections.com/blog/55
Mike Kelly
http://tedogrady.blogspot.com/
Ted O'Grady
www.testing.com/cgi-bin/blog
Brian Meric
www.clabs.org/blogki/
Chris Morris
www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/
Bret Pettichord
www.jrothman.com/weblog/htpblogger.html
Johanna Rothman
http://joelonsoftware.com/
Joel Spolsky
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/wwake/
William Wake