Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Firefox add ons used for Manual Testing

These days i am busy with one manual testing project. So, I found some very useful firefox add ons which i am sharing with you all :

1)  Awesome Screenshot :- Capture the whole page or any portion, annotate it with rectangles, circles, arrows, lines and text, blur sensitive info, one-click upload to share.

2)  CheckFox  :- This enables quick check/uncheck of checkboxes...

3)  Clear Cache Button :- Adds a clear cache toolbar button. After installing the extension, find the clear cache button in the toolbar customization...

4) Crossbrowser  :- Open a website in the Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome and Opera with one click.

5) ETNote :- Helps tester to take notes during Exploratory Testing.
This tool will help a tester testing a homepage to save data from the browser, e.g. URL or text areas, depending on your settings. It has also a notepad function.

6) Firebug :- Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page...

7) Firesizer :- Allows you to resize the window to specific dimensions.

8) GroundSpeed :- Groundspeed is an add-on that allows security testers to manipulate the application user interface to eliminate annoying limitations and client-side controls that interfere with the web application penetration tests.

9) HTML Validator :- HTML Validator is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla. The number of errors of a HTML page is seen on the form of an icon.

10) Interclue :- Ever wanted to know what was behind the link before you clicked? Interclue tells you everything you need to know before you open yet another tab.

11) Remove Cookies :-  A very simple extension to remove all the cookies of currently opened site. It adds an option to the Right Click menu of the page, and a Clear Cookies Button to perform this operation. It displays the status of operation in the status bar.

12) RestClient, debugger for WebServices :- Notice: some important features (XML indentation and load old saved requests) are missing in version 2.0.0, please update to version 2.0.1.

13) Session Manager :- Session Manager saves and restores the state of all windows - either when you want it or automatically at startup and after crashes. It can also automatically save the state of open windows individually.

14) Show IP :- Show the IP address(es) of the current page in the status bar. It also allows querying custom information services by IP (right click) and hostname (left click), like whois, netcraft, etc. Additionally you can copy the IP address to the clipboard.

15) SQL Inject Me :- SQL Injection vulnerabilites can cause a lot of damage to a web application. A malicious user can possibly view records, delete records, drop tables or gain access to your server. SQL Inject-Me is Firefox Extension used to test for SQL Injection vulnerabilities.

16) SQLite Manager :- Manage any SQLite database on your computer.

Some other important add ons :-

1) Fire Math :- FireMath is an equation editor based on MathML, the mathematical markup language.
Find examples, FAQ, installation instructions and a discussion board at
http://www.firemath.info
Speed up scientific scripting! Improve your science!

2) IE NetRender :- Render the current page with IE NetRenderer

3) Launchy :- Launchy will enable you to open links and mailto's with external applications...

4) Opera View :- Open pages in Opera from Firefox context menus. Very usefull for web developers!

5) Regular Expression Tester :- Testing tool for regular expressions with color highlighting (including submatches) and helpers for creating expressions