Revo Uninstaller Portable, this portable application can identify leftover uninstalled information, in the form of files, folders and registry entries. It also has a number of other useful feature as a window’s utility.
As a test tool, one can use the information to create issue reports, detailing the information that was not uninstalled.
Image 1 - Revo Uninstaller Portable
For example uninstalling the application Yahoo! Toolbar has 246 leftover Registry items and 6 leftover files and folders. This potentially could lead to issues when installing different versions of the application on the same machine. Read the rest of this entry »
Pismo File Mount provides a process to mount an ISO file (also ZIP, CISO, CFS, ISZ, DAA files) as a read-only, virtual folder or mapped drive. A number of standard ISO formats are supported; like ISO-9660, Joliet extensions and UDF 1.02.
Pismo File Mount is the graphical user interface for the command line application pfm.exe.
Mounting and unmounting an ISO file via pfm.exe:
>pfm mount “Test Tools.iso”
>pfm unmount “Test Tools.iso”
Using Windows Explorer
Mounting a ISO file as a Virtual Folder
Right-click the ISO image, select Quick mount
Image 1 - Pismo File Mount: Quick Mount
Mounting a ISO file as a Mapped Drive
Right-click the ISO image, select Mount…
From Map drive drop down select a drive, click Mount
Image 2 - Pismo File Mount: Mount Options
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MD5 Checksums are used to check the integrity of files. They are normally a 32 hexadecimal number (128-bit hash value) created by a cryptographic has function.
In short, a MD5 Checksum is useful for identifying a corrupt, incorrect or missing file.
Using fsum to create and verify a MD5 Checksum
fsum.exe is a command line application and therefore ideally used with batch files.
Creating a MD5 Checksum with fsum.
>fsum -d”d:\verification” -jnc -jm -r *.* >”d:\verification\CHECKSUM.md5″
Image 1 - The Checksum.md5 content (opened in Notepad)
I have changed two files to show the status of warning and errors. The document “Verification Testing.doc” has been deleted and the file content of “ReadMe.txt” has been changed.
Verify a MD5 Checksum with fsum.
>fsum -d”d:\verification” -c CHECKSUM.md5
fsum identifies a warning and an error.
Image 2 - fsum output
Options used:
-d <directory>, set working directory
-jnc, suppress comments
-jm, use MD5 format
-r, recurse subdirectories
-c, check sum against given list
Using Fsum Frontend to verify a MD5 Checksum.
Fsum Frontend also identifies a warning and an error.
Image 4 - The Fsum Frontend interface
Fsum Frontend can calculate 4 different checksums (SFV, MD5, SHA1 and SHA2), and it also allows 96 different hashes for files and text strings.
Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition provides a defect management solution which integrates into the Team System environment.
Visual Studio Team System 2008 has been designed with a number of inbuilt test tools. One of these test tools is for defect management. Work items are used in Team System to manage work.
A bug work item has four states:
- New -Test Engineers or Software Engineers are raising a bug.
- Active - Software Engineer is investigating bug and potentially fixing the bug.
- Resolved - Test Engineers is retesting bug (the Engineer should closes or re-actives the bug they opened).
- Closed – Bug is closed, however it is available to be re-activated if bug reappears.
Also the reason field, complements the state field, by indicating why a bug is in a given state.
Image 1 - The states & reasons of bug work item
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PrimoPDF provides a virtual printer for applications that have a print option.
As a test tool, one can capture test evidence of the application’s printable documents, in the form of a PDF.
Image 1 - Output optimized screen PDF customization for each time you print
BeCyPDFAsm (BeCy Portable Document Format Assembler) is ideal for merging individual pages from several PDF files.
Image 1 - Source & output files are defined on the same screen
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Workrave also tells me when to have a rest break and that I’ve reached my daily limit (as it just did 10 minutes ago).
Image 1 - Rest break in Workrave
Image 2 - Daily limit for Workrave
