Powerful Web Testing Tools

Web testing; Nowadays meant to be very crucial, so many Internet browsers and their supporters. Numerous tools available for web testing most of them require higher budget. Few free website testing tools are available online or as add-ones for example firebug,Yslow. These are not only used for web development also for web testing. We can fetch object details ,CSS, JavaScript and more using these kinds of add ones. It is easy to analyze all these information. Open source Testing tools like Selenium, Watir needs web object’s physical properties or it’s description to run successfully, we can use these tools as an object spy.Checkout some powerful web testing tools

1.Firebug
Firebug integrates with Firefox, it is a great invention for developers can find JavaScript errors , page loading time etc. Most of the developers used to fix Html/CSS, JavaScript errors simply in your finger tips while you browse. Firebug is one of the best applications around for debugging issues with front-end code and CSS. If there’s any image or style that’s out of line, checking it out with Firebug is the best response. It’s even possible to change styles within the extension to see how a website will actually appear in the browser. How this is useful in web testing. We can monitor java script errors, web site performance i.e. site loading time/object wise also Html or CSS validation. Inspect elements option in firebug is like GUI Spy.
Visit:- Firebug

2. YSlow
YSlow analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the Firebug web development tool. YSlow grades web page based on one of three predefined ruleset or a user-defined ruleset. It offers suggestions for improving the page’s performance, summarizes the page’s components, displays statistics about the page, and provides tools for performance analysis, including Smush.it and JSLint.
Visit :- YSlow

3. Load Impact (Online testing)
This is used for Performance Testing (Load/Stress). It simulates users and access your website . It simulates large user load on web servers to determine whether or not they can handle the high traffic load. Free users can only attempt using 50 simulated users But this is very useful . The tool will check (ping) from different locations and results will display as a complete report with graphs
Visit :- LoadImpact