Open Source Software Testing Tools

The Software Testing Automation Framework (STAF) is a framework designed to improve the level of reuse and automation in test cases and test environments. The goal of STAF is to provide a complete end-to-end automation solution for testers.

httest is a script based tool for testing and benchmarking web applications, web servers, proxy servers and web browsers. httest can emulate clients and servers in the same test script, very useful for testing proxys.

BugUnit extends JUnit with the concept of a 'bug'. Multiple tests test one bug, if one test fails the bug is open. Methods like assertEquals("PRJ-123",i,10) will flag bug PRJ-123 as open or closed in Jira and a bug-centric HTML summary.

In order to assure software performance, software needs to be tested accordingly as early as possible - only weaknesses diagnosed early can be assessed quickly and cheaply. ContiPerf enables performance testing already in early development phases and in an easy-to-learn manner: A developer writes a performance test in form of a JUnit 4 test case and adds performance test execution settings as well as performance requirements in form of Java annotations. When JUnit is invoked by an IDE, build script or build server, ContiPerf activates, performs the tests and creates an HTML report. The report provides a detailed overview of execution, requirements and measurements, even providing a latency distribution chart. A large feature set for execution settings and performance requirements is available, e.g. Ramp up, warm up, individual pause timing, concurrent exection of test groups and more.

The SpeedTest program is used to test the speed of Java code on various computer platforms. It runs tests such as 500,00 sin & cos calculations, allocate an array of 5,000 doubles 50,000 times, and allocate an array of 50,000 points 20 times.

ORUnit is a simple framework for writing and running automated tests, written in the CA-OpenROAD programming language. It is modelled after JUnit, the unit testing framework written in Java by Kent Beck and Erich Gamma.

Testing complex systems calls for clear task management and control covering everything from defining test plans to writing test cases and recording results. QATraq provides the framework for task management and control, across the whole test process.

The software program (SarBox) parses and analyzes SAR data in charts or text formats. SAR is cumulative activity counters in the operating system. It is the most comprehensive command which helps to monitor performance of various Linux / Solaris subsystems (CPU, Memory, I/O, Disk, Network, etc) all in same log. This makes it difficult to analyze since every counter data is dumped into the log file. SarBox helps to analyze this log file and present data in graphical charts or text format. To collect sar statistics from an environment, use below syntax [user@host ~]# sar -A 30 2 > sar_linux.log “30 2” reports for every 30 seconds and total of 2 times, written in sar_linux.log.

Support automatic exposure of mock/proxy pairs into a Spring container.