What's in your Testers Tool Box

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Permalink Reply by Justin Hunter on June 4, 2009 at 10:00am

Rosie,

I wasn't planning to announce this for a few weeks, but since you asked about what tools we're using and used the phrase "things out there that some of us don't know exist," I can't resist...

A tool in my Tester's Tool Box that hardly anyone one knows exists (yet!) is a pre-launch version of Hexawise, a test design tool. It maximizes coverage in black box testing projects using the fewest possible number of test cases.

If any Software Testing Club members want early access to it, I'd be happy to grant early access to the right types of testers: we're interested in obtaining input on U/X and feature requests from smart, experienced testers.

- Justin

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Permalink Reply by Ainars Galvans on June 4, 2009 at 10:22am

Paint :) and alt+PrintScreen (or FireShot)
Paper and pen
Skype
Notepad++
Remote Admin (or VNC)

And last but not least it used to be word and Lotus Notes but now confluence wiki that helps me to better do written communication. A limited replacement for something that I'm missing

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Permalink Reply by Simon Godfrey on June 4, 2009 at 11:22am

I'll leave this to people who actually get a chance to test!

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Permalink Reply by Rosie Sherry on June 4, 2009 at 11:44am

LOL...

but you could say what you use to use in the olden days :)

or what you would use if you had the opportunity...

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Permalink Reply by Teemu Vesala on June 4, 2009 at 11:47am

Mathematics - For some reason I need this now much more than I used to need when I was coder... I've spent part of the day just to find out how to use 'mean square error' to replace part of the manual checks. If that manages to reduce manual asserts from 1000 to 100, then it is really useful.
Python
Perl
Vim (and gvim)
Cygwin
Excel
Firefox + plenty of different plugins
Putty or some other ssh-client
VmWare
Linux (running at the virtual machine)

At current project
Selenium
Robot Framework

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Permalink Reply by Rob Lambert on June 4, 2009 at 12:27pm

Rosie,

My testers toolbox, at the moment, consists of:

Selenium
Xenu Link checker
Firebug
Firecookie
Download Helper (firefox addon)
Notepad ++
Visual Studio Test Edition
Test Link
Camstudio
IE Tab (firefox addon)
and
VMWare

Rob..

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Permalink Reply by Joe Strazzere on June 4, 2009 at 12:48pm

http://www.sqablogs.com/jstrazzere/55/Tester%26%2339%3Bs+Tool+Box.html

AllPairs
BareGrep
BareTail
Blat
Bugzilla
Daphne
DbVisualizer
Ethereal
firstobject XML Edit
HttpWatch
InstallWatch
Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
IrfanView
Jenny
JR Screen Ruler
Log-Watch
LogParser
OpenSTA
PerlClip
Qlock
Screen Rip 32
SmartReplace
StatOwl
SysInternals Utilities
TimeSnapper Classic
Virtual PC
Xenu LinkSleuth
XML Notepad
WebMon
WinMerge
WinTask

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Permalink Reply by Joel Montvelisky on June 5, 2009 at 4:17am

You should start thinking about marketing a testing package called "Joe-in-a-Box"

(just make sure to add the paracetamol that Andy suggested bellow + some TUMS for the heartburn of working with some of our Dev colleagues)

:o)

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Permalink Reply by Janesh Chandika on June 8, 2009 at 7:00am

Thanks for the list. This will be really helpful for testers

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Permalink Reply by Andy Smith on June 4, 2009 at 3:32pm

Paracetamol...a vital ingredient.

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Permalink Reply by Glenn Halstead on June 4, 2009 at 8:58pm

Faststone Capture... A brilliantly simple yet effective screen capture and annotation tool.
Hudson... makes a great test execution manager
QTP
VBScript + VBSEdit
Subversion, Commit Monitor, WinMerge
Stexbar... great for bulk file renamed using regex
Grepwin
Process Monitor... sweet for when you can't delete a file because some mystery process has hold of it
Freemind... mind mapping
Instant messenger
Humility & politeness
Impatience, determination and tenacity

New toys - Fitnium, Firebug, Xpather

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Permalink Reply by Anne-Marie Charrett on June 6, 2009 at 5:46pm

Hi Glenn, I just wanted to thank you for the tip on Faststone Capture. I am using it for some testing I am doing right now and I'm loving it. Especially the way you can paste it into your doc with just one click.
I'm also using the recording feature which I like because I voice over it as I am testing expaining what I am doing. I'm interested in what my clients impressions are on the video's of the bugs...

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