Cheap and Free Test Tools

I keep on researching for free or cheap testing tools available on the net that could help testers to do smart testing.

Here are few of the tools that one can consider-

Test Planning

QA Traq - www.testmanagement.com  (Free). This tool allows you to plan and organize your testing.

QAtraq provides a central location for all test documentation with full revision control.

Test Automation

Sahi - http://sahi.co.in/

Sahi is a mature, business-ready tool for automation of web application testing. Sahi is available as an Open Source free product and as Sahi Pro, the commercial version. For testing teams in product companies and captive IT units which need rapid reliable web automation, Sahi would be the best choice among web automation tools.


Maveryx - http://www.maveryx.com/

Maveryx is a free, open source testing tool designed to provide testers and developers with advanced test automation capabilities for functional testing, regression testing, GUI testing and data-driven testing.

Canoo WebTest - http://webtest.canoo.com/webtest/manual/WebTestHome.html

Canoo WebTest is a free Open Source tool for automated testing of web applications in a very effective way.

Verifaya Studio - http://studio.verifaya.com/product/
I am yet to try this product, and if you try it before me please share your feedback with me.

Verifaya Studio was developed as an internal test automation tool for our services team, so it’s a test automation tool developed by testers for testers. It offers a 100% script free environment that can be used by test engineers of all levels, but has the power and flexibility to do serious testing in a faster and more economical way than top commercial and open source testing tools.

Macro Recorders and Players

These tools capture keystrokes and even create simple scripts that can be replayed.
Macro Scheduler - http://www.mjtnet.com/
Mouse and Key Recorder - http://www.kratronic.com/recorder/
iOpus Internet Macros - http://www.iopus.com/iim.htm
Macro Express - http://www.macros.com/

Comparison Tools
ExamDiff and ExamDiff Pro - http://www.prestosoft.com/examdiff/examdiff.htm
Beyond Compare - http://www.scootersoftware.com/ Compare It! - http://www.grigsoft.com/wincmp.htm
Total Commander - http://www.ghisler.com/
WinMerge - http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/

Load and Stress Tools
Web Server Stress Tool - http://www.paessler.com
Open Load - http://sourceforge.net/projects/openload/
VeloMeter - http://www.velometer.com/
Load - www.pushtotest.com
Jmeter - http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/

Screen Video CaptureThese are great tools to document a test. Screen video is captured and saved in wmv format, which is about 1/10 the size of avi files.
Windows Media Encoder - www.microsoft.com  FREE - search on the term "Windows Media Encoder" to find it on the Microsoft site.

Test Drivers for Unit Regression Testing
TestMaker 3.3 - http://www.pushtotest.com
NTest for .NET components - http://sourceforge.net/projects/nunit
Article on using NTest - http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/Globalking/nunit01192006034629AM/nunit.aspx
JTest for Java - http://www.junit.org/index.htm

Configuration Management

Syncronize It! - http://www.grigsoft.com/winsin.htm

FolderMatch - http://www.foldermatch.com/

Test Data Generation

This is a really cool web script which allows you to generate large amount of test data on the fly. 

http://www.generatedata.com

Added on 24/April
Link checker tools
SortSite and PowerMapper are good tools to validate the links on the websites.But they might not be free, please check that out.


I will keep adding more tools to this list, so visit this page again in next few days..