Add-ons for Testers
My Favorite FireFox add-ons
Firefox is one of the most important browser that i been working in web application domain. Over a period of time, I have used plenty of add-ons to test various web applications. There are add-ons useful for security testing, analyzing page source, accessibility, debugging, performance and pretty much everything you need for web application testing. You can certainly boost your productivity using these add-ons.
1. Firebug
If you are working in web application domain, I am sure you are already familiar with this add-on. Firebug, along with the development toolbar are absolute minimum your firefox should have if you are working in web application testing domain.
2. W3C Page Validator 3.0.0
This little add-on validates a page using the W3C Markup Validation Service. Depending on your context, if your organization is committed to create W3C compliant web applications, this might be very handy.
3. SQL Injection
This is an excellent tool to help developers in identifying SQL injection vulnerabilities. This add-on transform checkboxes, radio buttons and select elements to an input text box.
4. Firesizer
Provides a menu and status bar to resize the window dimensions to a specific size. This add-on is extremely useful if you want to test how your application will look in different size windows.
5. Regular Expression Tester
This small add-on allows you to test your regular expression. The tool includes options like case sensitive, global and multiline search, color highlighting of found expressions and of special characters, a replacement function incl. backreferences, auto-closing of brackets, testing while writing and saving and managing of expressions.
6. HttpFox / HttpWatcher
This add-on is an amazing tool if you want to dig deeper into http request / response and analyze all the traffic. Using this add-on, you can get information about request / response header, sent and received cookies, Querystring parameters, POST parameters and Response body.
7. Accessibar 0.7.8
Its an amazing add-on to test accessibility of any site. Using this add-on, you can change font size, line spacing, hide all the images / flash and so on. It also integrates text to speech reader and reads string on mouse hover / focus elements.
8. Add N Edit Cookies
There are very few applications which does not use cookies these days. This little add-on allows you to add / edit cookies and test how your application will respond to changes in the cookies setting.
9. LinkChecker 0.6.3
This is a very simple tool to check if there are any broken links on the web page. It highlights all the links in various colors to show if they are broken or not.
10. MeasureIt
If you have a design team which is very particular about the size of every element, than this little add-on can be used to test hight and width of all the elements. It draws a ruler around any element and shows hight / width of the element.
11. FireShot
FireShot can be handy in situations where you want to take screen shot of your web application. It even allows you to write comments, highlight specific element of your application and so on.
12. URLParams
This little add-on make it convenient to analyze GET and POST parameters of the current website in the sidebar. You can ever change their values, add new parameters etc.
Hope you found this list useful. Please add other interesting add-ons you have used in the comment, which are not listed above.
I will give some real time examples in later posts.
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