Not your ordinary testing tool: Observability Tools

When we talk about tools that are traditionally used for testing or by testers we usually bring up test automation tools. If we dig a little bit deeper into the testing tools world the bug tracking tools, test management tools, and some screen recording tools may come up but that’s kinda it.

I think that limiting the testing toolset only to tools that have a “testing” stamp on it a) is artificial b)does not reflect the reality. The engineers that do testing* as part of their daily responsibilities use much wider selections of tools, amongst them:

1. Test Automation Tools
2. Performance Testing Tools
3. Test Management Tools
4. Bug Tracking Tools
5. CI/CD Tools
6. Software Development tools
7. Observability tools.
8. Log Management Tools
9. Virtualization Tools
10. Cloud Tools
11. Database Tools
12. Messaging and Event streaming Tools
13. Other little helpers

This list can go on and on. I would like to take a closer look at some of these tools and how and when to use them to find issues. Let’s start with observability tools. My most recent…