Essential Firefox plugins for QA Testers

Firefox is far becoming an important browser for testers engaging in web application domain. With its number of plugins available on the web, this browser's extensibility seems to break the normal stack of a browser's capability, and this proves essential when dealing with web application testing. Following list of plugins are extremely useful for testing web applications. There are plugins useful for security testing, analyzing page source, accessibility, debugging and pretty much everything needed for web application testing.

Understanding performance tests and its metrics

There are a lot of definition that you could draw out of the concept “Performance testing,” one of these, which I found brief and simple:

Performance testing is the process by which software is tested and tuned with the intent of realizing the required performance.

 

Regardless of the many terms that you could relate to “performance,” like load, stress, spike, soak etc. There are three major categories that you should focus on when you do performance test:

Creating Firefox profile for your Selenium RC tests

Why create a new firefox profile for Selenium?

We create firefox profile for Selenium RC tests, so we can set light configurations to it, which later on we’ll be using to run our Selenium scripts FASTER.

How to create Firefox profile for your Selenium test?

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