QA has several testing tools at their disposal, we generally use
tools to automate repetitive, monotonous tasks. We also use tools to
quickly perform checks and validations which would take a human hours to
do.
#1 Xenu
Xenu is a very fast and reliable link checker mainly used for finding
out broken links. Large websites with deep links are a good target for
Xenu. Its an open source tool so you can download it from here: http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
Best
thing about Xenu besides it being free is that it has a simple
interface and supports SSL websites. You can customize and ask Xenu to
hit a list of URLs within minutes you will get results.
# 2 Bug Magnet
Bug
Magnet is a nice Google Chrome extension, that will help you with your
web exploratory testing. The extension is called Bug Magnet and is
developed by Gojko Adzic.
Gojko
describes his tool with the following text: “Bug Magnet provides
convenient access to common problematic values and edge cases, so you
can keep them handy and access them easily during exploratory testing
sessions. Just right-click an input field!”
The tool provides the following features:
It
provides easy and useful test cases that you could check on every form
and input field of a web application. It is also a very good reminder of
things like white spaces, charsets and format exploits. However, the
tool has two limitations. The first one is, that it is a Chrome
Extension so it works only with Chrome. The second limitation is that it
works on multi-frame pages but only if they are on the same web domain.
http://gojko.github.io/bugmagnet/
# 3 SQL Inject Me
An
Add in for Firefox, SQL inject helps in testing Injection
vulnerabilities. You can choose what tests you want to run and based on
focus your attacks. Word of caution, you might not want to run this on
your prod website.
Will
talk about more tools in my next post about QA tools. Please leave a
comment if you have any questions/suggestions or any tools that you use
and find them useful.
The tool provides the following features:
• Lorems | Text in different charsets and languages
• Text size | With or without white spaces
• Names | Different names like NULL or Chloë Rømer
• E-Mail addresses | Valid or non valid addresses
• Numbers | Large numbers
• Whitespace | Leading white spaces, tabs or newlines
• Format exploits | SQL injection or broken HTML
http://gojko.github.io/bugmagnet/
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