Evil TesterA different view of software testing
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On this, barely my third day of self-publishing an electronic ebook. I somehow feel qualified to pass on a few tips to anyone thinking of going down that road.
I quickly learned that I should not use lulu.com to build a wee self-contained community, where you can keep your beta customers up to date with future releases, because lulu.com doesn’t tell you anything about the people that bought your book (or if it does, I could not find the option).
I have just released a beta version of my ‘Automated Web Testing with Selenium & Java’ tutorial over on my ‘other’ site.
At the moment “Selenium Simplified” has 210, A4 formatted, pages presented as a pdf ebook.
I haven’t quite finished it yet, but it seems ‘good enough’ to get someone started on their journey to test automation splendidness.
Question: With two Agile Testing books out now, which one should you read?
Answer: Agile Testing by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory.
No contest.
The following contains a true life summary of some recent testing to illustrate the use of Fiddler and some test thinking in action.
I know I have mentioned Fiddler 2 before and how I could not test web sites without it (OK, so I could but I’d use something like BurpSuite instead), but I like Fiddler because of its ease of use and flexibility, as I will explain…
I mentioned that Fiddler forms an essential part of my web testing toolkit, and recently I had a hankering for knowledge of Security Testing. Somehow I found my way to a Fiddler plugin called Watcher from Casaba Security. This lets me slowly learn about security testing in the course of my normal testing.
Simple to use: enable Watcher using the new [Security Auditor] tab that appears after installing watcher, and test normally, then check the Security tab and see the warnings Watcher has flagged.
I've done a fair bit of Web and Flash testing recently and I suddenly realised how much I rely on various tools I have installed to help me. In fact, I don't know how I ever managed to test web sites without these. So in this post I'll provide a wee introduction to the tools I've used in the past few months. If you don't use the following tools then I'd love to know which tools you use to get visibility into, and control of, your testing.
I still remember my first real test.
Do you?
Since I generalise wildly, I assume that you do.
Note: my first 'real' test. Not "the first time I found a bug". For the purposes of this exercise I defined my first 'real' test as the first time I can remember purposefully thinking like a tester with regards to software and actively hunting out a bug.
You may choose a different definition - up to you. And you may have more effective recall of your formative years - bully for you. But - my blog, my story.
Since Compendium Developments houses my book reviews, you may have missed:
Which ones do you read?
Any more I should add to this list?
New e-book on Automated Testing with Selenium, now Available in Beta Release form - only 5.99 GBP.
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