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50+ Open Source Performance Testing Tools
Performance testing is a general term used to describe testing activities where a simulated user load is directed at a system and measurements are gathered. It is designed to meet or exceed a set of system performance goals while maintaining a particular user load profile. It places variable load - from a minimum to a ...
100+ Software Testing Blogs and Tweeters
This is a extension of the blog post "10+ Software Testing Blogs". This blog post has 100+ software testing blogs and tweeters.
I also created the Twitter List "@jayphilips/software-testing" so you can follow all of the people listed on this post with one just click.
Abby Fichtner
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Follow HackerChick on Twitter
Advanced Brain
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Advanced QTP
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30+ Common Testing Mistakes
I was cleaning out a folder on my machine when I stumbled on an oldie but goodie PDF called "Classic Testing Mistakes" by Brian Marick.
In the paper he states how he breaks the classic mistakes into 5 themes and how to resolve the mistakes:
1. The Role of Testing: who does the testing team serve, and ...
Mashable’s 2009 Open Web Awards
Mashable's 2009 Open Web Awards is still open for nominations. Nominations started on October 14, 2009 and last until November 15, 2009. Voting is from November 18th - December 13th, 2009. Winner Announcements will be on Tuesday, December 15th, 2009.
You can nominate people/companies for various different categories ranging from:
Brand/Startup/Company/Agency
FaceBook Specific
Media
Mobile
People
Photos and Videos
Twitter Specific
There are a ...
100+ Open Source/Free Security Tools
Security testing is a process to determine that an IS (Information System) protects data and maintains functionality as intended.
The six concepts that need to be covered by security testing are: confidentiality, integrity, authentication, authorization, availability, and non-repudiation.
Confidentiality: A security measure which protects against the disclosure of information to parties other than the intended recipient(s). Often ...
15+ Open Source Test Management Tools
Test Management tools are very important to any test team. Test teams use these tools to help capture requirements, design test cases, map test cases to requirements, test execution reports and much more. Companies may use one to many tools for this, which range from very expensive to open source. My advice would ...
100+ Open Source/Free Functional Testing Tools
It is very important to make sure that your application functions as expected. There may be times that you add one little piece of code and all of a sudden other parts of the application no longer works. You may not have time/capacity to manually go back and regression test all the pieces ...
Why I Think You Should Join AST
I attended the Conference of the Association of Software Testing (CAST) this week, which is hosted by the Association for Software Testers (AST). I was very impressed by not only the topics but also the great people. It was nice being able to sit down and discuss topics that we all face out in the ...
50+ Open Source Tracking Database Tools
No matter how good you think your code is there is always going to be a bug/defect of some kind. Defect numbers may range from 1 to thousands so it's important to have a very good tracking tool. There are commercial tools out there but I figured I'd focus on the open source ...
10+ Open Source Link Checking Tools
It is very important to make sure that there are no broken links on your site. A link may be active when your first added it but as the days, months, years go by the link may end up being broken.
Below are some open source tools that can help you find those broken links.
Bugkilla - ...
