Software testing tools for testing web application

Question

Hi, may I ask if there is any recommended tools for testing web application written in PHP, JavaScript, etc?

Currently, I am doing a research to find out software testing tools for testing web application efficiently. May I ask if there is any recommended tools?

Or is there any recommendation on what direction I may follow in doing a research like this?

Thank you very much

Answer 1

There are a lot of web application testing tools out there. Here are several lists of them:

http://freshmeat.net/articles/open-source-java-and-web-testing-tools

http://java-source.net/open-source/web-testing-tools

http://www.softwareqatest.com/qatweb1.html

Specifically, Selenium is a very popular tool.

Answer 2

It's dependent which tests do you want to have. For unit tests I used PHPUnit, tehre is maybe now better one.

For web tests there is Selenium and WebTest I'm using. Selenium is really easy to learn.