The simplest testing principle

Before starting testing web-application make sure that network cable is connected.

The good tester

To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the good tester, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

by eXtreme Software Testing site

FireShot: web pages capturing tool for IE & Firefox

FireShot is a screen shot tool that can capture just the webpage you are looking at. It can capture the visible area or the entire page. The free version is useful for basic capture/save. You can find FireShot here.

Firebug: well known web debugger tool

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

FireGestures: execute various commands with mouse gestures

A customizable mouse gestures extension which enables you to execute various commands and user scripts with five types of gestures. You can get it here

Google Notebook

Web application useful for storing short notes or ticket templates, etc. You will be required your Google account and can access it here

Input Director: use one keyboard & mouse for two computers

Input Director is a software solution used to control two computers using one keyboard and mouse. It make VNC, Remote Desktop or KVM obsolete. Read more and get it here or here.

Extended Statusbar: the easiest performance testing tool

A Statusbar with speed, percentage, time and loaded size (similar to Opera's one). You can get it here

Bottom Error Console: shows Firefox Error Console on the bottom of the page

Bottom Error Console splits window and display error console on the down side. You can toggle the presence of the display with the statusbar button or shortcut key (Ctrl + Shift + B). You can get it here

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Client-side performance testing of Web applications

Testing Goals:
- Improve Web-site performance

Measurements:
- Total Sequence Time (total time of page loading)
- Request Count (amount of requests while opening testing page)
- Page download Size

Tools Required:
- IE / FireFox
- Fiddler2

Test Flow:
- Prepare the test cases you would like to cover in Performance Testing
- Clear cache and cookies of the browser
- Get Fiddler in to the recording mode - F12
- Run prepared test cases
- Save the Fiddler log and clear the fiddler session
- Run prepared test cases again without clearing cache and cookies to measure cached site performance
- Analyze results

Analyzing results:
- Total Sequence Time: good result is <= 3 seconds
- Request Count: good result is <= 50 requests
- Page download Size: good result is <= 100 KB

Example:
- Google search for 'fiddler2' - good performance :)