# Question for QC People: Best Testing Tool?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-qc-people-best-testing-tool/194991>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 13, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-qc-people-best-testing-tool/194991 "2003-08-13T19:41:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![skeptic\_ev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@skeptic\_ev](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skeptic_ev)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-qc-people-best-testing-tool/194991/1 "2003-08-13T19:41:49Z")

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QC/developers/other IT: which testing tool(s) do you prefer and why?

We’ve used Empirix for the last year, but our yearly fee is nearly due, so we’re considering other options. My manager wants something that does scripting, regression testing, and load testing. Open source is a plus. (All our testing is for web-based stuff.)

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**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-qc-people-best-testing-tool/194991/2 "2003-08-13T21:16:16Z")

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QC in IT only? Because many other disciplines QC/QA their work, reporting and sampling procedures.

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**Author:** ![skeptic\_ev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@skeptic\_ev](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skeptic_ev)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-qc-people-best-testing-tool/194991/3 "2003-08-14T01:57:59Z")

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Doh! :smack: Yes, IT only. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-qc-people-best-testing-tool/194991/4 "2003-08-14T03:52:13Z")

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I’m sure you know about WinRunner, so I won’t mention that. We use it in some instances.  
We are just getting our feet wet with JUnit. I don’t have much to report on other than I’ve heard some promising things about it, and it is open source.

[http://www.junit.org/index.htm](http://www.junit.org/index.htm)

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**Author:** ![LtningBug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@LtningBug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LtningBug)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-qc-people-best-testing-tool/194991/5 "2003-08-14T07:58:33Z")

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At my company, we use home-brewed tools for all of our QA purposes.