Articles and Reviews on Testing Tools

Stress testing isn't just for developers. You need to understand the impact each user has on your application stack. Relying on recommendations and capacity planning isn't enough to make educated decisions on hardware and software requirements.

Test Management encompasses anything and everything that we do as testers. Our day-to-day activities include:

Creating and maintaining release /project cycle /component information

Creating and maintaining the test artifacts specific to each release /cycle that we have- requirements, test cases, etc.

Establishing traceability and coverage between the test assets

Test execution support - test suite creation, test execution status capture, etc.

Metric collection/report-graph generation for analysis

Bug tracking/defect management

The above are broadly some of the tasks that involve what we call, the test management process. 

SpiraTeam manages your project's requirements, tests, stories, release plans, iteration plans, tasks and bugs/issues in one environment. Since it’s web based, teams can collaborate in real time and have up to the minute visibility of the project’s status.

Inflectra® is pleased to announce the release of Rapise 5.0, the latest version of its Rapise test automation platform. Rapise is the most comprehensive and powerful automated testing solution on the market. With its latest version, Rapise offers testers a single platform to test web, mobile and desktop applications as well as web service APIs.

Test Set permutations is a great feature when you want to test the same test sets and instances multiple times, for example when you are supporting a large number of platforms, languages or even configurations.

In this case you want to be able to take one or a small number of test sets, and create multiple test sets for each of the different combinations you wish to test.

Inflectra® is pleased to announce the release of SpiraTeam 5.1, the latest version of its award-winning application lifecycle management (ALM) suite.
SpiraTeam 5.1 Released by Inflectra, Enables Effective Program Management
The latest version of SpiraTeam brings together major enhancements in performance and usability along with the ability to break the project paradigm for the first time. With SpiraTeam 5.1, you can take control of even the most complex programs.
SpiraTeam 5.1 provides users with the ability to have complete traceability between items in different projects, the ability to view integrated program backlogs and the ability to quickly search across all items and projects to make associations.

One of the challenges in applying software test automation successfully in your projects is to select a most appropriate automated testing tool or framework.  It is a challenging decision as you have many tools to choose from and a number of requirements to satisfy, and automated testing tools may have hidden problems you don’t see or overlook at the time of making decision. Making the right tool choice is crucial to avoiding problems related to the tool that haunt your project execution.

In selecting a tool, you have a set of selection constraints, which can be classified into hard and soft constraints. Hard constraints are fixed and must be satisfied in any case. These constraints include platforms, executing environments, programming languages, and frameworks used to develop the target application under test (AUT).  Soft constraints can be compromised or partially met. Such constraints include schedule, cost, maintainability, usability, level of programming and technical skills required. As these constraints are adjustable, you find it challenging in balancing among them in order to select the best tool given that most of the tools do not satisfy all of these constraints perfectly.

If you have been long in the web UI development niche, you must have already been doing some testing automation or at least approaching this task. It is tempting to let a software do your low-level tasks instead of you but overall efficiency could be a problem. In order to reach an appropriate level of quality for your automated tests, you have to invest much time and efforts into setting up a platform and building scripts. If you skip the proper the preparations, you are likely to have a bunch of bad-structured tests returning false alarms or failing to capture actual bugs. In such a case automation was not helpful for your project at all.

Automation is the best way to insure your code is fulfilling it purpose. make sure all features are functional with automatic testing platform. now you can change your code and verify all other features are intact. 
There are several different types of testing tools or testing frameworks, available for PHP, which use different approaches. All of which are trying to avoid manual testing and the need for large Quality Assurance teams, just to make sure recent changes didn’t break existing functionality.