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Open source software testing tools and scripts
By siliconindia
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Saturday, 24 October 2009, 04:06 IST
We all live in the age of computers, there are plenty of inventions and updates are happening every day which directly relates to the computer. These updates and inventions helps the nucleus of the computer technology to be stable, but there is a nucleus that has the capability to control even the computer's nucleus.
It is nothing but the software that acts as an effective interface between the human beings and the computer. From the first ever software created in the 1940's to the latest Google earth version 5, software industry is the only industry which went on to become a super star over night. Now, we have softwares that rescues people from committing suicide to the ones used for mars mission.
However, all these software's have to undergo rigorous testing before being commercialized or being used. On early days, this testing was done manually with a software tester trying to do different things with the software, test for the reliability and other aspects of the software for a certain period of time, check whether the codes for the software are looped correctly and then the software is released.
It took plenty of time for this testing process to be done, so the engineers came up with the idea of software's that can test different softwares. And these softwares were then generally called as software testing tools. There are plenty of websites offering different software testing tools to a software engineer to test their software.
The variety of the software testing tools ranges from the software testing tools that have an open source code to the ones that are used to testing security software systems.