Links

• Japex is a simple yet powerful tool to write Java-based micro-benchmarks.

• FEST is a collection of APIs, released under the Apache 2.0 license, which mission is to simplify software testing.

Acceptance Testing

• http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/ Robot Framework, A keyword-driven test automation framework. Acceptance level testing and acceptance test-driven development (ATDD).

Book

• XUnit Test Patterns Refactoring Test Code - Gerard Meszaros.

Behaviour Driven Development

• Given When Then

Continuous Integration

• Martin Fowler, Continuous Integration

Definitions

• Unusual software bugs (Wikipedia)

email

• How to test e-mail notifications properly.

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/mailster/ Mailster is a project aimed at testing software mail capabilities.

  • MailsterSMTP: few lines to get a customized Java SMTP server

FTP

• http://mockftpserver.sourceforge.net/ mock/dummy FTP server implementations.

Functional Testing

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/texttest/ TextTest is an application-independent tool for text-based functional testing.

GUI

• http://sikuli.org/ Sikuli is a visual technology to automate and test graphical user interfaces (GUI) using images (screenshots). Sikuli includes Sikuli Script, a visual scripting API for Jython.

Load Testing

• httpstone Simple Java-based stress testing tool for HTTP applications.

• ab - Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool. Shows you how many requests per second your Apache installation is capable of serving.

• http://blitz.io/, Load testing (commercial).

Performance

• http://projects.nuttnet.net/hummingbird/

• Real Time Web Traffic Visualisation. The Box: A Shortcut to finding Performance Bottlenecks

Unit Testing

Blogs

• Easy 2 Test == Less Reason to Test?

• Very interesting thoughts on testing the UI, from this blog entry by Alan Page, more UI test design

Web

• HtmlUnit is a headless java browser, pure GUI-Less browser.

• Canoo WebTest is a free Open Source tool for automated testing of web applications in a very effective way.

• Selenium is a test tool for web applications.

• Selenium IDE is an integrated development environment for Selenium tests.

• HTTPTracer is an application that sits between your HTTP client and your HTTP server and sniffs all the communication that goes on between the two.

• http://twill.idyll.org/ twill: a simple scripting language for Web browsing

• http://www.pushtotest.com/

• http://www.badboy.com.au/

• User Agent Switcher

Performance

• http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/index.html Page Speed, the Web Performance Tool.