Posts Tagged ‘Tools’

Top 15+ WordPress Plugins

Posted by Jay Philips On 2 June 2010 60 Commented

There are currently over 9,000 plugins available for WordPress but the question is which ones are the best ones to use. Every one has their own list of what to use and how to use them. Below is a list of plugins that I have found to be the most useful:

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50+ Open Source Performance Testing Tools

Posted by Jay Philips On 7 January 2010 21 Commented

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 [...]

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100+ Open Source/Free Security Tools

Posted by Jay Philips On 6 October 2009 28 Commented

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 [...]

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15+ Open Source Test Management Tools

Posted by Jay Philips On 10 September 2009 26 Commented

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 [...]

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100+ Open Source/Free Functional Testing Tools

Posted by Jay Philips On 4 August 2009 21 Commented

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 [...]

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50+ Open Source Tracking Database Tools

Posted by Jay Philips On 9 July 2009 5 Commented

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 [...]

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10+ Open Source Link Checking Tools

Posted by Jay Philips On 7 July 2009 18 Commented

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.

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