When I talk about tools with testers, I most often hear about UI or API automation tools. However, testing includes a very rich set of activities where innovation and efficiency can be brought. What types of tools do you use to boost your testing activities? Here are some examples that I will giv…

Snipping tool windows and quickplayer in mac for screen recording IDE - vs code, aqua Postman, swagger - api testing and postbot -test scripting Chrome dev tools for network calls Git bash for git Jenkins for ci/cd Mailosaur for email testing Excel for data driven testing Jsondiff and jsonb…

I’ve used probably about half of the above mentioned tools, but in terms of quantity it’s the hand-written options that far exceed the commercial or open source tools. I often don’t have time to find a tool to do a specific job, so I just use whatever programming language is available, and write it …

Hello @parwalrahul Using a mix of tools & Extensions: Bug Manger BurpSuite Jmeter Postman Fake Filler Session Buddy WhatFont PageRuler GoFullPage WAVE CSSViewer Page Load time Lighthouse SelectorsHub Mobile Simulator Lightshot PagespeedInsight LinkMiner ClearCache etc… Currently …

Same here, I often use various bash tools to get what I want (whether filtering output or generating input), or write Python scripts if I think I’ll need to repeat the process at a later date. Tools could also include the physical things on your desk - I have a soft button on my mouse bound to “lau…

[image] parwalrahul: Here is a detailed map of different types of such tools that I use. What do you mean by use? I doubt you’d need some of those at the same time on a project. Here’s a few questions that might reveal more tools being used to those answering in here: do you intercept/sim…

I’m surprised that the list of tools is so short :grin: yeah, it’s useful to have a list of (not the most popular) tools grouped by purpose/category. I see just 2 tools in the security section, while there are dozens of even popular ones missing. In most cases, you don’t need tools - you need to u…

WebLOAD – Great for large-scale load testing with solid correlation and real-time analytics. JMeter – Open-source, good for functional and load testing, but scripting can be tricky. Gatling – Code-based, great for DevOps and CI/CD integration. K6 – Another code-based option, focuses on performance …

Thank you Rahul for sharing. I know most of the tool you’ve shared, but some are new to me and will have a look. On our side, like some other comments we create our own tool, mainly to create simulators (load, customers, failovers…) and help in deployment of test environment / configuration using o…

I developed the following tools at my company: download and compare data from database to test the change from Oracle to PostgerSql. Highly customizable for different level of depths. organized download and extraction of our rich client from our CI server for different branches get data from the d…

Interesting. What is the use case for link miner? Help me learn more about this.

What the various types of tools that you use in testing?

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parwalrahul (Rahul Parwal) 4 March 2025 19:44 12

Thanks all for your responses.

Here is my updated map with more categories.

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