Testing requires many labor-intensive tasks, running numerous program executions, and handling a great amount of information. Appropriate tools can alleviate the burden of clerical, tedious operations and make them less error-prone. Sophisticated tools can support test design and test case generation, making it more effective
Selecting Tools
Guidance to managers and testers on how to select testing tools that will be most useful to their organization and processes is a very important topic, as tool selection greatly affects testing efficiency and effectiveness. Tool selection depends on diverse evidence, such as development choices, evaluation objectives, execution facilities, and so on. In general, there may not be a unique tool that will satisfy particular needs, so a suite of tools could be an appropriate choice.
Categories Of Tools
We categorize the available tools according to their functionality:
1. Test Harnesses
2. Test Generators
3. Capture/Replay Tools
4. Oracle/file comperators/assertion checking tools
5. Coverage analyzers and instrumentals
6. Tracers
7. Regression Testing Tools
8. Reliability Evaluation Tools
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Published on : 30-May-2018
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