Articles and Reviews on Testing Tools

How to Read a pdf using the selnium webdriver? here is one solution, implemented with selenium on visual studio,

extract PDF using selenium.This sample will helps you out

On traditional projects, testing is usually treated as a quality gate, and the QA/Test group often serves as the quality gatekeeper. It's considered the responsibility of testing to prevent bad software from going out to the field. The result of this approach is long, drawn out bug scrub meetings in which we argue about the priority of the bugs found in test and whether or not they are sufficiently important and/or severe to delay a release.
On Agile teams, we build the product well from the beginning, using testing to provide feedback on an ongoing basis about how well the emerging product is meeting the business needs.

Selenium is a browser automation tool, commonly used for writing end-to-end tests of web applications. A browser automation tool does exactly what you would expect: automate the control of a browser so that repetitive tasks can be automated. It sounds like a simple problem to solve, but as we will see, a lot has to happen behind the scenes to make it work.

Before describing the architecture of Selenium it helps to understand how the various related pieces of the project fit together. At a very high level, Selenium is a suite of three tools. The first of these tools, Selenium IDE, is an extension for Firefox that allows users to record and playback tests. The record/playback paradigm can be limiting and isn't suitable for many users, so the second tool in the suite, Selenium WebDriver, provides APIs in a variety of languages to allow for more control and the application of standard software development practices. The final tool, Selenium Grid, makes it possible to use the Selenium APIs to control browser instances distributed over a grid of machines, allowing more tests to run in parallel. Within the project, they are referred to as "IDE", "WebDriver" and "Grid". This chapter explores the architecture of Selenium WebDriver.

Start or Stop Appium Server Programmatically using Java.
Appium is a very promising tool when it comes to mobile automation. I have given it a try for about 6 months when I was working on a mobile testing framework for my company. 
Appium comes in many client bindings (Java, C#, Python and Ruby) which offer a lot of features, but they lack the ability to start the server in an automated way which means that it has to be done manually.

Apache JMeter is a great open source tool designed for load testing and performance measurement of web applications and web services. For those of you wishing to bring together the strengths of JMeter and JSystem, here is a short tutorial describing the methods that me and my team members have devised for integrating JMeter scripts with JSystem

Consider the following scenario:
You're writing an automation script that's supposed to perform a login to a website (using a username and password), and then you're transferred to the next web page which has a link for downloading a PDF document (call it: my_report.pdf). To download the file, your script would need to be able to perform the following steps:

1. Enter a username and password into the relevant input fields and click the "Submit" button.
2. On the next page, click the "Download Report" link to begin downloading the my_report.pdf file.
3. Select a location on your local hard drive for saving the PDF document, and finally download the file to that location for some further processing.

eggPlant brings a plethora of cross platform, technology agnostic user based test automation capabilities to an organization through image recognition technology, with complete control of entire user interface.
It can automate anything that a manual test engineer needs to test.
eggPlant essentially started as a functional testing tool which later developed into an automation solution that could automate any system, rather than the application.
It later permeated into performance and load testing, network testing, device and lab management testing, mobile and integration testing space.
The tool further focuses to provide solutions for test analytics, test creation and test environment management.

Read on how to setup Selenium with SoapUI installation in a way that it will empower SoapUI, to be operation even for testing flows that need interaction with the UI.

Whether you create a project from scratch or use an existing template, you need to add your project to source control for version management and change tracking. To create a new project using Visual Studio, in the New Project dialog box, just select Test and make sure that the Add to Source Control check box is checked.

You can use Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate or Visual Studio 2010 Premium to create automated tests of the user interface (UI) known as coded UI tests. These tests provide functional testing of the UI and validation of UI controls. Automated UI tests enable you to test that the UI is functioning correctly after code changes. Coded UI tests are quicker to run than manual tests, meaning that you can run them more frequently.

This article provides test automation guidance that helps you leverage the coded UI features of Visual Studio 2010 to foster a continuous, consistent and standard automation approach. Such an approach allows you to build, deploy and test, taking advantage of Visual Studio Lab Management features, which let automation testers reap the benefits of integrating with the build process for automatic build deployment, executing on VMs and reporting test automation results as part of Microsoft Test Manager (MTM).

XStudio is a complete and enhanced graphical test management solution facilitating a feature rich suite of options to help you manage the complete life-cycle of your products, including but not limited to users, requirements, specifications, documents, projects, test reports and test campaigns and integrated bug-tracking options. XStudio was designed as a test engine that later evolved into a test management solution to handle the complete project lifecycle from start to finish. The GUI harnesses five different modules to handle the data of the project : product module, requirements module, test module, test campaign module and bug tracking module. The uniqueness of XStudio lies in its prioritization of each individual element of the traceability matrix.

See what's new in QAComplete:

• SoapUI NG, ServiceV, and SoapUI integration with QAComplete
• Comes with new connector for Jira,
• Support for TestNG Selenium WebDriver framework 
• Selenium WebDriver Integration.
• Add, Run, and Report on Selenium WebDriver tests.
• Support for JUnit and NUnit Selenium frameworks.
• Link manual and automated tests to requirements, releases, and defects.
• Get aggregated test run reports across both manual and automated tests.