Alternative Tools

There are a number of well known tools out there for testers to use. This section of the site is here to bring to your attention a few tools which have been used or evaluated by Compendium Developments which may not be in common usage.

Compendium Favourites

EVE      GraphViz 

Test Modelling Tools

Name	Description	Rating
AiSee	A GDL Graph Visualiser
DaVinci	A TCL written Graph Editor and Presenter
EVE	A tiny vector drawing program. Great for emergencies.
Graphlet	A Scriptable TCL Graph Editor
GraphViz	The AT&T Graph Visualisation Toolkit
TouchGraph	An on-line, in browser graph visualiser/editor.
VCG	The precursor to AiSee
VGJ	A Browser GML Graph Editing Applet. Now maintained as the co-operative workflow project.

 

Alternative Links

James Bach stirred up a lot of interest with his recent Stickyminds article with a good list of alternative tools. And the comments on the article came up with a lot of good tools, some of which didn't have URLs associated with them so I had a look on the web and I've taken the liberty of listing some of them below but please do read the article and comments, there are more tools than listed here.

windows scripting host or at msdn
WinSQL
Beyond Compare
4Dos
SnagIt
WinTask 
UltraEdit editor 
Xenu
Spector

The comments also reminded me of the existence of freeware tools and the testing tools faq list

These are the tools used to produce this very site.