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Ask HN: What tools do you use to test your website?

10 points by kevinburke 16y ago

I'm just getting started with testing and I'd appreciate some help figuring out which tools are good. How would you test a subscribe via email form?

Jsarokin 16y ago
http://browsershots.org http://browsershots.org Shows you what your site looks like in different browsers. Extremely useful.
- qbproger 16y ago
  http://browserling.com http://browserling.com This will also let you interact with the website in the given version of a browser.
zoowar 16y ago
Many web frameworks support testing. Are you using a framework? Which one?
- kevinburke 16y ago
  Flask
  - nudge 16y ago
    There's a page on this in the docs: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/testing/ http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/testing/
  - zoowar 16y ago
    Checkout flask-mail http://flask.pocoo.org/extensions/ http://flask.pocoo.org/extensions/
misterbwong 16y ago
User acceptance testing: Selenium Unit testing & load testing: testing framework built into Visual Studio IE testing: Two or three VMs with different versions of IE installed
iuguy 16y ago
That depends. If I'm using a framework I'll try to test the functionality internally first, then validate the form and submit it to make sure it all works. I'd probably automate this with something like urllib2 and beautifulsoup, but that's just me. For more complicated clientside things you have selenium. For website security testing I use Nikto and Netsparker to save a bit of time, Skipfish and Burp Professional.