This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

By Edwin Hernandez


 


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We recently published an article with a collection of useful tools for QA/Test Engineers, highlighting tools that are sometimes overlooked or that you probably don’t know about. If you get a chance please check that list too: Collections of Useful Tools for QA/Test Engineers.


 


On the same lines, this time I’m writing this article geared towards Performance Test Engineers. Whenever you work with JMeter, Visual Studio, LoadRunner or any other IDE, these tools help in the areas of scripting, debugging, performance analysis, etc.


 


Parts of this list has been circulating inside of the Microsoft Test Team for years. An earlier version of this list was originally put together by Geoff Gray (100-level wizard of Testing if you ask me). Taking that list as starting point, I moved things around, updated old links, replaced with newer versions were applicable and added other tools I find useful and have used throughout the years. I hope you find this useful:


 


 


 


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      • Notepad++


        • Powerful text editor, features applying different encoding options, language formatting, macros, external plugins and lets you perform many string manipulation operations

        • https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/





 


**There are many others text editors such as EditPad Pro, PSPad, Charny Notepad, etc. but wanted to feature at least one.


 



 

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      • BareTail


        • Log File Monitoring Tool that lets you trace a log file in real time and view the tail of the file as information keeps coming in, without blocking the file for writing. Also lets you highlight filter information by color.

        • https://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/





 



 

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GUIDES



 


 


BLOGS


Some of these may be a bit dated, but the fundamentals are still very valuable: 



Mark Russinovich’s Blog




 


 


OTHER LISTS OF TOOLS



 


 


While this list includes mostly free tools, there are a few freeware or only trials. Also if you think I missed an important tool please let me know in the comments.

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