TLDR; New patreon bonus - pdf collation of posts monthly and more micro course content.
In case you missed it here is a summary of January 2019, blog posts, some notes and patreon roundup.
The content on Patreon is accessible for only $1 a month at patreon.com/eviltester. Supporters gain access to downloadable PDFs of the content and micro courses e.g. How I Test - Web App, Test Ability Audit and more
Notes
I’ve been creating daily content on Patreon and trying to find a way of making it more accessible. The Patreon interface isn’t particularly good for ’lots’ of content.
I’ve build code that automates the extraction of data from Patreon - primarily using the GUI since the Patreon API doesn’t support post extracts. But I use JavaScript to scrape the data from the JavaScript working memory, rather than parse the DOM. This involves a few WebDriver JavaScriptExecutor calls and then some JSON parsing. I have a write up of this in a Patreon log post.
I have also written some code which parses the extract and can create a PDF.
This means I’ve introduced two new Patreon benefits which are accessible for only $5 a month (about 17 American cents per day):
- a monthly pdf extract of the Patreon posts
- a monthly pdf extract of blog posts
Its suprising just how much content you can create in a month.
For January the blog extract is a 21 page A4 document and the Patreon extract is over 100 pages.
I will gradually work back through the 2018 posts and retrospectively create monthly summary documents for 2018.
Blog Posts For January 2019
I have not listed videos separately, any YouTube videos I create will now have associated blog posts, so the blog posts below should contain all the content.
- Patreon for Software Testing and Development
- Pro Con Critical Evaluation - but What If?
- A Tactical Automation Case Study - Java, JavaScript, API and Dev Tools
- How to install Bonobo Git Server On Windows
- How to convert SVN Subversion to Git on Windows
- What is Boundary Value Analysis? Software Testing Technique explained with real world examples.
- How to download a file with RestAssured
Most of the above have received additional content and analysis on Patreon.
Patreon Posts For January 2019
For $5 a month Patreons get access to my daily posts.
In January I also uploaded a bunch of content for the Patreon exclusive “Get Your Message Out” Micro Course on blogging, and speaking at conferences. You can see the contents for this course here.
The list below also contains posts which form part of my “Get your message out” Micro course
- Reuse and Repurpose for Testing, Automating and Beyond
- Recommendation: Polya ‘How to Solve It’
- The Polymath Book Notes
- Bypassing more ‘Lack of official APIs’
- Document what you learn
- How to download a file with RestAssured
- Boundary Value Analysis is a technique derived from a heuristic
- Boundary Value Analysis Real World Application and Extension with Exploratory Software Testing
- Boundary Value Analysis (BVA) Traditional Software Testing Technique
- Tactical Data Extract Continued
- poor wifi or lack of observation ability
- Case study in risk based prototyping and automating the sneaky way
- How to convert Svn To Git Using svnserve, VisualSVN, svnadmin dump, and git svn
- Old versions and Configuration by code
- Organised and uploaded new material
- Promoting Your Talk After it is finished
- Handling Feedback After the Conference
- Your personal debrief
- Handling Feedback at the Conference
- Handling Questions
- Ending Your Talk
- Handling stuff that happens and goes wrong
- Starting your talk
- Recording Your Talk
- On Rejection
- On Submitting
- Getting Ideas for your Talk
- Fear of Public Speaking Discussed
- Testing requires courage and confidence
- Technical Debt
- Edit to get it right
- Treat the Submission as a sales pitch
- Crafting a Submission with Passion
- Recommended Reading
- Practicing to Overcome Fear of Public Speaking
- Creating Slides with Markdown
- Research the submission process
- Have the motivation to submit
- General Summary of Concerns and Motivations
- Initial thoughts from War of the Flea
- Video Deluge
- Install Bonobo Git Server On Windows
- Reducing the Cost of Conferences
- Negotiation Advice For Conferences
- Peer Pressure and Pay To Speak Conferences
- Keyboards
- Case Study in Automating Tactically for Data Migration
- Bugs Bugs Stopping my work
- SVN to Git Migrations
- What is exploratory Testing? UK Gov Explored
- Recruitment Tips
- Consultancy life hack for writing quickly
- Pros and Cons Evaluation System
- What are testers responsible for?
- Free Video Capture and Editing Software
- Big Goals, Incremental Action
- Lessons learned from mailing list software failure
- What does “Cucumber is not a testing tool!” mean?
- Sound Demo of 3.5mm microphones I use
- Recommended Microphones for Video Creation
- Go to the source
- Secondary Gain from your own projects
- Feeling like a one trick pony
- Happy New Year 2019
You can gain access to the content on Patreon for only $1 a month at patreon.com/eviltester. Supporters gain access to downloadable PDFs of the content and micro courses e.g. How I Test - Web App, Test Ability Audit and more
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