Testing Tools: Different tools used for Testing

Depending on the size of the company, testing is done using various tools for each phase of testing.

Quality Management Tools:

Quality Center (9.2+) - Latest version available is 11. You can actually download a copy of it from HP's BTO software website. Most of the medium to big organizations do use HP's Quality Centre for writing and running tests
Note: For version 11 onwards this is more referenced as Application Life Cycle Management software - ALM
Microsoft Excel - for writing test cases

Microsoft Word - for writing test plans and test strategy document

Test Tools:
SOAP UI: for making web service requests and to verify the responses coming back
QTP: for automating the regression tests & create a regression suite that can be run continuously
Test Complete: for automating the regression suites
Load Runner: for load testing purposes
Win Runner: for automating the regression suites. Most of the places is now replaced by QTP
Fitnesse: to test individual methods or classes. Generally used to Unit test, or may be used for integration testing purposes. Mostly used by development in Agile development projects
Selenium: to perform integration or system test on web application using specific technologies. Can not run on all platforms/ applications. Mostly used in agile development projects

and so on..there's no end to this because of wide variety of projects and environment today's projects running on