Tools from open source world have started to find a permanent place in many of the tester's toolkit. Open source provides tools ranging from testing the functionality aspect of a web application to specifically test the security aspect of software.
Open source testing tools have also contributed towards performing non-functional testing like measuring performance etc, which otherwise is a costly affair. Thus the open source testing tools not only provides flexibility and power, they are also cost effective.

This tutorial aims to introduce the audience to the possibility of using tools from open source world for different needs of software testing.
Moreover, users can contribute back to those project in terms of updates to tools, suggesting improvements and reporting bugs etc.
This marriage of commercial world and open source world would result in Win-Win situation for both Open Source projects and the testing community.

Learning Objectives for the Audience:

Gaurav, ME (Computer Science) and a Software Consultant at Novell Software Development has his major work experience on testing SOHO and Enterprise class security software products.
He is the author of “Security Corner” section in i.t. Magazine (from EFY Group with 350,000+ readership), writes regularly for various IT publications/magazines (i.t. Magazine, PC Quest), and has also published more than 2 dozen articles.
Gaurav has presented talks at India's premier Open Source conferences FOSS.IN/2005 and Linux-Bangalore/2004. He has also published papers for International Conference on Information Technology (CIT-2002)