Many times our Q/A staff is tasked by well meaning managers with the task of testing some new website, plugin, game or other network enabled application with zero training, tools or even a basic understanding of the scope of what they need to test.
Any network enabled application can run into a number of issues that it will need to work with or fail gracefully from. Without adequate testing the company will at the least loose some of its reputation, and at most go out of business.
A short list of of common network errors include, but are not limited to:
- Server Failure
- Packet Loss
- Slow Connection
- No Connection
- Bad or corrupt data
To test these scenarios required dedicated hardware in the past, but today almost any PC or Mac can detect and simulate most network conditions through simple to use tools. To get a team started I have assembled the simple networking toolbox bellow..
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