Open Source Linux Software Testing Tools
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View 40 business solutionsBrowse free open source Software Testing tools and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Software Testing tools by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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MailHog
Web and API based SMTP testing
Inspired by MailCatcher, easier to install. Built with Go, MailHog runs without installation on multiple platforms. Run it from Docker Hub or using the provided Dockerfile. The SMTP server starts on port 1025, the HTTP server starts on port 8025, in-memory message storage. ESMTP server implementing RFC5321. Support for SMTP AUTH (RFC4954) and PIPELINING (RFC2920). Web interface to view messages (plain text, HTML or source). Supports RFC2047 encoded headers. Real-time updates using EventSource. Release messages to real SMTP servers. Chaos Monkey for failure testing. HTTP API to list, retrieve and delete messages. See APIv1 and APIv2 documentation for more information. HTTP basic authentication for MailHog UI and API. Multipart MIME support. Download individual MIME parts. In-memory message storage. MongoDB and file based storage for message persistence. Lightweight and portable. No installation required. -
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Playwright
Node library to automate Chromium, Firefox & WebKit with a single API
Playwright is a Node library for automating Chromium, Firefox and WebKit using a single API. It supports headless execution for all these browsers on Linux, macOS and Windows, providing automated web browser interactions that are fast, capable, reliable and ever-green. Playwright enables a broad spectrum of cross-browser web automation capabilities, which are used by Single Page Apps and Progressive Web Apps. These include scenarios that span multiple pages, domains and iframes; emulation of mobile devices, geolocation, and permissions; upload and download files and many more. -
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Scrapy
A fast, high-level web crawling and web scraping framework
Scrapy is a fast, open source, high-level framework for crawling websites and extracting structured data from these websites. Portable and written in Python, it can run on Windows, Linux, macOS and BSD. Scrapy is powerful, fast and simple, and also easily extensible. Simply write the rules to extract the data, and add new functionality if you wish without having to touch the core. Scrapy does the rest, and can be used in a number of applications. It can be used for data mining, monitoring and automated testing. -
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Puppeteer
Headless Chrome Node.js API
Puppeteer is a headless Node library that provides a high level API for controlling Chromium or Chrome over the DevTools protocol. It requires zero setup and comes bundled with the Chromium version most suited to it. Puppeteer is headless by default, making it fast to run. However, it can also be set to run full or non-headless Chrome or Chromium, simply set the headless option when launching a browser. Many of the things you can do manually in the browser, you can also do with Puppeteer such as generate page screenshots and PDFs, crawl a Single-Page Application, test Chrome extensions and more. -
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PM2
Node.js Production Process Manager with a built-in Load Balancer
PM2 (Process Manager 2) is a production process manager with its own built-in load-balancer for Node.js applications. If you want battle-hardened Node.js applications that can be monitored and kept alive forever, PM2 is the way to go. PM2 lets you manage, maintain and increase Node.js performance. It is constantly assailed by over 1800 tests so you can deliver high quality applications, and deploy confidently and more often. PM2 is cross-platform and arguably the most widely-used process manager for Node.js with over 100 million downloads. Setting it up is easy, it just takes a couple of minutes and one simple command. -
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PyLoris
A protocol agnostic application layer denial of service attack.
PyLoris is a scriptable tool for testing a server's vulnerability to connection exhaustion denial of service (DoS) attacks. PyLoris can utilize SOCKS proxies and SSL connections, and can target protocols such as HTTP, FTP, SMTP, IMAP, and Telnet. -
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AWS SAM CLI
CLI tool to build, test, debug, and deploy Serverless applications
The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI is an open-source CLI tool that helps you develop serverless applications containing Lambda functions, Step Functions, API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS, SNS and more. The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) is an open-source framework for building serverless applications. It provides shorthand syntax to express functions, APIs, databases, and event source mappings. With just a few lines per resource, you can define the application you want and model it using YAML. During deployment, SAM transforms and expands the SAM syntax into AWS CloudFormation syntax, enabling you to build serverless applications faster. To get started with building SAM-based applications, use the SAM CLI. SAM CLI provides a Lambda-like execution environment that lets you locally build, test, debug, and deploy AWS serverless applications. -
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Playwright for Python
Python version of the Playwright testing and automation library
Playwright enables reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps. Single API to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit. Capable automation for single page apps that rely on the modern web platform. Use the Playwright API in JavaScript & TypeScript, Python, .NET and, Java. With Playwright, test how your app behaves in Apple Safari with WebKit builds for Windows, Linux and macOS. Test locally and on CI. Use device emulation to test your responsive web apps in mobile web browsers. Playwright supports headless (without browser UI) and headed (with browser UI) modes for all browsers and all platforms. Headed is great for debugging, and headless is faster and suited for CI/cloud executions. Playwright interactions auto-wait for elements to be ready. This improves reliability and simplifies test authoring. Playwright receives browser signals, like network requests, page navigations and page load events to eliminate the need for sleep timeouts that cause flakiness. -
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Hoverfly
Lightweight service virtualization/ API simulation / API mocking tool
Hoverfly is a lightweight, open source API simulation tool. Using Hoverfly, you can create realistic simulations of the APIs your application depends on. Replace unreliable test systems and restrictive API sandboxes with high-performance simulations in seconds. Run on MacOS, Windows or Linux, or use native Java or Python language bindings to get started quickly. Simulate API latency or failure when required by writing custom scripts in the language of your choice. -
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Wallaby
Concurrent browser tests for your Elixir web apps
Wallaby helps you test your web applications by simulating realistic user interactions. By default, it runs each test case concurrently and manages browsers for you. Here's an example test for a simple Todo application. Because Wallaby manages multiple browsers for you, it's possible to test several users interacting with a page simultaneously. Read on to see what else Wallaby can do or check out the Official Documentation. Wallaby also requires bash to be installed. Generally, bash is widely available, but it does not come pre-installed on Alpine Linux. If you're testing a Phoenix application with Ecto and a database that supports sandbox mode, you can enable concurrent testing by adding the Phoenix.Ecto.SQL.Sandbox plug to your Endpoint. It's important that this is at the top of endpoint.ex before any other plugs. -
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SSLScan queries SSL services, such as HTTPS, in order to determine the ciphers that are supported. SSLScan is designed to be easy, lean and fast. The output includes prefered ciphers of the SSL service, the certificate and is in Text and XML formats.
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BackstopJS
Catch CSS curve balls
Visual regression testing for web apps. Supports screen rendering with Chrome-headless. Add your own interactions with the Playwright and Puppeteer scripting. BackstopJS automates visual regression testing of your responsive web UI by comparing DOM screenshots over time. -
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ciao
HTTP checks & tests (private & public) monitoring
HTTP checks & tests (private & public) monitoring - check the status of your URL. ciao checks HTTP(S) URL endpoints for a HTTP status code (or errors on the lower TCP stack) and sends a notification on status change via E-Mail or Webhooks. It uses Cron syntax to schedule the checks and comes along with a Web UI and a RESTful JSON API. Create an open-source web application for checking URL statuses with a UI and a REST API which is easy to install and maintain (no external dependencies like Databases, Caches, etc.) in public and private environments. -
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Playwright for .NET
.NET version of the Playwright testing and automation library
Playwright for .NET is the official language port of Playwright, the library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API. Playwright is built to enable cross-browser web automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast. Cross-browser. Playwright supports all modern rendering engines including Chromium, WebKit, and Firefox. Cross-platform. Test on Windows, Linux, and macOS, locally or on CI, headless or headed. Cross-language. Use the Playwright API in TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, .NET, Java. Test Mobile Web. Native mobile emulation of Google Chrome for Android and Mobile Safari. The same rendering engine works on your Desktop and in the Cloud. Auto-wait. Playwright waits for elements to be actionable prior to performing actions. It also has a rich set of introspection events. The combination of the two eliminates the need for artificial timeouts - the primary cause of flaky tests. -
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QA Wolf
Create browser tests 10x faster
Set up browser tests in minutes to find bugs before your users do. QA Wolf helps you create, run, and maintain end-to-end tests 10x faster. We found browser testing too difficult and often gave up on it entirely in our previous jobs. We built QA Wolf for developers like us who want to spend less time testing and more time shipping. QA Wolf is zero-effort automated QA. We get you to 80% coverage in four months, and keep you there, so your team can stay focused on shipping. 2/3 of tech companies have less than 50% test coverage. Why? Traditional QA strategies pit coverage against velocity. The more testing you do, the slower you ship. QA Wolf is different. By combining the best parts of in-house QA & test platforms, we deliver ultra-high end-to-end test coverage that never slows you down. First step is getting to know your app. You don’t have to have any kind of test plan; a short demo is all we need. -
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VBot
JSON based visual regression testing library
A visual regression testing library/tool, aims to quickly automate browser-based tests with minimum development overhead. To test flexibly in different testing scenarios, either testing against web UI wired with backends or just static web pages, VBot exposes API to be used with testing frameworks like mocha or ava, etc. Therefore, the test data variables can be updated according to different conditions, in order to decouple from real backends and avoid false negative results. -
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VCR.py
Automatically mock your HTTP interactions to simplify testing
Automatically mock your HTTP interactions to simplify and speed up testing. VCR.py simplifies and speeds up tests that make HTTP requests. The first time you run code that is inside a VCR.py context manager or decorated function, VCR.py records all HTTP interactions that take place through the libraries it supports and serializes and writes them to a flat file (in yaml format by default). This flat file is called a cassette. When the relevant piece of code is executed again, VCR.py will read the serialized requests and responses from the aforementioned cassette file, and intercept any HTTP requests that it recognizes from the original test run and return the responses that corresponded to those requests. This means that the requests will not actually result in HTTP traffic, which confers several benefits including: -
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chai
BDD / TDD assertion framework for node.js
Chai is a BDD / TDD assertion library for node and the browser that can be delightfully paired with any javascript testing framework. Chai has several interfaces that allow the developer to choose the most comfortable. The chain-capable BDD styles provide an expressive language & readable style, while the TDD assert style provides a more classical feel. Plugins extend Chai's assertions to new contexts such as vendor integration & object construction. Developers can build their own plugins to share with community or use the plugin pattern to DRY up existing tests. You can also use it within the browser; install via npm and use the chai.js file found within the download. Browse our growing directory of custom plugins & vendor integrations to find the best tool for your needs. Chai has an extensive utility belt for plugin developers. Learn how to build your plugins & share. -
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httpexpect
End-to-end HTTP and REST API testing for Go
Concise, declarative, and easy-to-use end-to-end HTTP and REST API testing for Go (golang). Basically, httpexpect is a set of chainable builders for HTTP requests and assertions for HTTP responses and payload, on top of net/http and several utility packages. URL path construction, with simple string interpolation provided by go-interpol package. URL query parameters (encoding using go-querystring package). Headers, cookies, payload: JSON, urlencoded or multipart forms (encoding using form package), plain text. Custom reusable request builders and request transformers. Type-specific assertions, supported types: object, array, string, number, boolean, null, datetime. Regular expressions. Simple JSON queries (using subset of JSONPath), provided by jsonpath package. JSON Schema validation, provided by gojsonschema package. -
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speedtest-cli
Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest
Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net. It is not a goal of this application to be a reliable latency reporting tool. Latency reported by this tool should not be relied on as a value indicative of ICMP style latency. It is a relative value used for determining the lowest latency server for performing the actual speed test against. Speedtest CLI brings the trusted technology and global server network behind Speedtest to the command line. Measure internet connection performance metrics like download, upload, latency and packet loss natively without relying on a web browser. Test the internet connection of your Linux desktop, a remote server or even lower-powered devices such as the Raspberry Pi with the Speedtest Server Network. Set up automated scripts to collect connection performance data, including trends over time. -
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Bannergrab is a next generation network service banner grabbing tool. In addition to simple banner grabbing it can send triggers to various services such as FTP, SMTP and HTTP to enumerate additional information, including support for SSL services.
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Cinemagoer
Python package to retrieve and manage data of the IMDb
Cinemagoer is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb movie database about movies, people, characters and companies. Platform-independent, it can retrieve data from both the IMDb's web server and a local copy of the whole db. -
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PyNuker
A stress testing tool written in python.
PyNuker is a network stress testing tool written in python. Because it is written in python it should run equally well on any system that has Python version 3.x installed. It infinitely(until stopped) sends a string of text via a UDP packet to a target computer or network device in an effort to flood the target with so much useless traffic that it stops responding to valid requests. I digitally sign some files in my releases. If you'd like to verify those signatures, you can find my PGP/GPG keys at: https://marcusadams.me/keys.html If you'd like to donate there's several ways to do so: PayPal: https://paypal.me/gerowen Bitcoin (BTC): bc1q86c5j7wvf6cw78tf8x3szxy5gnxg4gj8mw4sy2 Monero (XMR): 42ho3m9tJsobZwQDsFTk92ENdWAYk2zL8Qp42m7pKmfWE7jzei7Fwrs87MMXUTCVifjZZiStt3E7c5tmYa9qNxAf3MbY7rD LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/gerowen -
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Hammerhead is a web site coverage, HTTP load generator, HTTP benchmarking, and stress testing tool. It has been designed to emulate multiple users from multiple IP addresses at maximum speed (unlike it's interpreted counterparts).
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must: A More Useful Syslog Test tool
A syslog message generator that replicates real syslog messages
Using templated message formats with customisable placeholders, run in configurable sequences that can selectively reuse data between steps, must allows more intelligent testing of syslog receivers with realistic data, as well as longer soak testing and stress testing. must was created to fill a gap found when trying to stress test Splunk as real, indexable and meaningful data was needed. must will (eventually) be provided as a standalone tool that uses XML configs (for quick use and consultancy etc) and as a web-based tool (for more permanent/pretty deployment (with historical reporting and live stats). SUPPORT: The best way of contacting me is via Twitter below, NEWS: (16/Mar/15) A beta of v2 is finally released - apologies for the long delay!
