General Test Tools

My general testing tools are designed to help testers with common tasks,  troubleshooting, or investigating problems.

  • Dif2Dirs - Directory Comparison Tool
    A simple change management tool for comparing files in 2 separate folders and displays deleted files, new files, and also changed files between a base and target folder and its sub-folders.

  • File Properties
    Useful change management tool to scan the properties and attributes of files in a folder and its sub-folders. This is useful to verify file properties prior to releasing or shipping software files.

  • SSSCalculator - Statistical Sample Size Calculator
    This calculator helps determine an appropriate statistical sample size of a population for a given level of confidence. Statistical sampling can be used to help testers determine how many elements from a given equivalent class subsets should be tested.

  • String Decoder
    Tool to convert a string of characters to Unicode encoding hexadecimal values or integer values. The hex or integer values are more useful for troubleshooting problematic strings than trying to use the character glyph. It can also be used to compare different Unicode transformation format encodings, or convert between Unicode hex values and 32-bit integer values of characters.

  • Test Timer
    Useful for timing the duration of manual tests or testing tasks, or for performance testing.

All tools require the .NET Framework 2.0 or higher.