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Software testing/Test tools

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Here there will be presented test tools (also with a video tutorial).


special attention

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Following test tools will be made available for public usage for the participants. Tutor Erkan Yilmaz shows their importance in the daily testing, their usage and also common mistakes.

  • bug tracking system: used for recording of anomalies (e.g. here some info on the bug tracking system of MediaWiki, e.g. Wikipedia)
  • trouble ticket system: to communicate with customers
  • version control: so that you can restore old versions (of source code, documents of any kind like user manuals, requirements, ...)

documentation of source code

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Following tools are a very simple way to summarize comments (examples for comments for programming languages you can find here) out of source code:


  • Doxygen: can be used for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors) and to a certain extent als for PHP, C#, and D. examples and projects, which use it.
  • Javadoc with example
  • PhpDocumentor (also called: phpdoc or phpdocu) with example
  • ROBODoc for e.g. C, C++, Fortran, Perl, shell scripts, Assembler, DCL, DB/C, Tcl/Tk, Forth, Lisp, COBOL, Occam, Basic, HTML, Clarion. And here examples
  • NDoc for .Net projects with example

and here more tools

other tools

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more tools will be added over time, see also discussion (at the moment go to German discussion)