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For test engineers, tools are essential for every testing activity. It will be very difficult for any one to perform all the testing activities without help of appropriate tools.
Fortunately, tools are present for every activity related to testing from Test Management, execution to reporting. As a test engineer, you need to know not only core testing tools but also tools which can improve your efficiency multi fold.
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TestingGeek has divided tools based on the activity they perform
- Requirement Management
In the recent time, people have started realizing that testing team should be involved in the project from the inception. Early involvement of test team in the project can be very beneficial for the project, but it require test team to be familiar with the tools which are used to manage requirement of the project. Tools like Rational Requisite Pro, Telelogic
help people in managing
requirements in a better
way. You should try to
make yourself familiar
with these tools. As a
tester, if you
participate in
requirement gathering
process or analyze
requirement for
testability,
maintainability,
ambiguity etc., having a
good understanding of
requirement management
tools can make your life
easier.- UML or software design tools
More and more people have started realizing the value of UML and software design.
Modeling tools gives you functionality of designing
your whole system, use
cases, sequence diagram
etc. As a test engineer you should be familiar with the use cases,
class diagram, sequence
diagram and how it can be used to increase your understanding of the system.
Good understanding of
use cases and system
design can help you in
writing more efficient
test cases and help you
in finding design flaws
as well. Familiarity
with tools like Rational
Rose, Rational Software
Architect can go a long
way in doing that.
- Test planning and management tool
Tools mentioned in the above section can be treated as good to have, but these tools are essential. You should try to get expertise in the tools like Rational Test Manager, Mercury
Quality Centre etc. These tools can be used for managing test assets, creating test plan and cases, tracking execution,
reporting and executing automated test cases
as well. Some of the
tools covered on
TestingGeek are
mentioned below.
- Test execution tools
This is what most of the test engineer use for Test Automation. Most of the tools in this category support the playback kind of functionality. These tools can be used to automate and execute automated test cases. Tools like Rational Functional Tester, Rational Robot, QTP, WinRunner and SilkTest can be used for this purpose.
- Unit Testling tool
Though unit testing
is mostly done by
development team, but
now a days test team
also assist development
team in writing and
defining unit test
cases.
- Performance testing tool
Performance testing is mostly used for web based applications. But in some case, memory profiling can be used for desktop applications as well. Tools like Load tester, JMeter can create virtual hosts and can simulate the real time load on the system.
- Useful Tools
Apart from the tools mentioned above, there are some more tools which are always good to have for your use. Specially, tools like
VMWare, NortonGhost
VMWare - A Tester's
Best
Friend : In this
article, author explains
what is virtualization,
and how to create and
use VMWare in your
testing. It explains, in
simple steps how to
create virtual images,
how to create snapshot
and how to use it.
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