Sofware Testing Tools

Are you into the field of software development? You must be well aware of the importance of software testing tools and quality assurance. You must also know about sofware testing tools adequate for this purpose. There are tools which specialize only in a particular type of testing. Then there are tools which are comprehensive and allow you to do entire testing work centrally. Let's have a look at some software testing tools which you would come across in the industry.

First tool presented here is LoadRunner from Mercury Interactive. The tool can do extensive load testing. It can emulate hundreds even thousands of users using the solution at the same time. This allows you to check how many users can use the application at the same time without causing any considerable performance degradation. This is a commercial software testing tools and it provides really good value for money.

This tool can be used to do extensive testing of web servers , database server, ERP infrastructure and even AJAX based online applications. For the people who want to run streaming media server, this tool is indispensable.

Jemter is another software testing tools which you would come across. This solution is based on the Java technologies. The tool was primarily developed to do testing of web based applications. It has since expanded its scope. Now this testing tool can be used to do testing of JDBC, Java, FTP, SOAp and XML - Remote Procedure Call. This tool provides extensive distributed testing features. It can be used for a number of target systems. The tool can be extended using pluggable samplers.

LoadSim is another software testing tool that you would occasionally come across. This is an open source tool. It is developed using Java. You can use this software package for distributed load testing over HTTP. This tool uses Muffin scripting language to develop testing scripts. Be advised that there is no Graphical User Interface so you would have to do everything from the command line. On the flip side, this tool also lacks any graphical reporting.

These tools are extensively used when you outsource your testing requirements to Bangalore, India. With the knowledge of automation process of these sofware testing tools, you can do parallel testing and be doubly sure about the testing results you would get from the outsourced company.

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