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Fiddler Notes and UseCases

Oct 16, 2021 - 6 minute read - Tools Proxies Case Study Technical Web Testing

This is a collation of edited older posts on Fiddler, explaining how I usee it to bypass restrictive proxy settings for tool configuration, remove headers, change browser verbs when accessing pages.

API Testing Challenges - How To Use Simulation Mode

Aug 1, 2021 - 4 minute read - API Testing API Challenges Evil Tester

This post and video shows how to use the Simulation Mode in API Challenges.

API Testing Challenges - How To Use Mirror Mode

Aug 1, 2021 - 2 minute read - API Testing API Challenges Evil Tester

This post and video shows how to use the Mirror Mode in API Challenges.

API Testing Challenges 37 and 38 - How To - Use Bearer Tokens

Jul 25, 2021 - 4 minute read - API Testing API Challenges Evil Tester

This post and video shows how to complete the Bearer Token challenges to GET and POST the secret note.

API Testing Challenges 35 and 36 - How To - POST Unauthorised 401 403

Jul 25, 2021 - 3 minute read - API Testing API Challenges Evil Tester

This post and video shows how to complete the Unauthorised POST secret note challenges, which return status codes of 401 and 403 and fail to amend the secret note.

API Testing Challenges 34 - How To - POST amend secret note 200

Jul 25, 2021 - 3 minute read - API Testing API Challenges Evil Tester

This post and video shows how to complete the POST secret note challenge, which returns a status code of 200 and amends the secret note.

API Testing Challenges 33 - How To - GET authorized secret note 200

Jul 25, 2021 - 2 minute read - API Testing API Challenges Evil Tester

This post and video shows how to complete the GET Authorized secret note challenge, which returns a status code of 200 and the secret note.

Older Posts for Evil Tester Blog Posts

API Testing Challenges 32 - How To - unauthorized secret note 401 (2021-07-25)
API Testing Challenges 30 - How To - authentication passed 201 (2021-07-24)
API Testing Challenges 31 - How To - forbidden secret note 403 (2021-07-24)
API Testing Challenges 29 - How To - authentication failed 401 (2021-07-24)
Q - Can we use Automated Execution to find defects? A - Yes (2021-07-23)
API Testing Challenges 25, 26, 27, 28 - How To - Status codes 405, 500, 501, 204 (2021-07-18)
API Testing Challenge 24 - How To - POST JSON accept XML (2021-07-18)
API Testing Challenge 23 - How To - POST XML accept JSON (2021-07-17)
API Testing Challenge 22 - How To - POST todos (415) (2021-07-17)
API Testing Challenge 21 - How To - POST todos create todo with JSON (2021-07-17)
API Testing Challenge 20 - How To - POST todos create todo with XML (2021-07-17)
API Testing Challenge 19 - How To - GET todos Invalid Accept Header 406 (2021-07-17)
June 2021 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2021-07-11)
Do we need Testers? What is the right question to ask? (2021-07-11)
Claude Shannon on Creative Thinking Strategies (2021-06-26)
Q. Do you have to be negative to be a tester? A. No (2021-06-20)
Are testers there to make development look good? (2021-06-16)
QA is a process not a role and is not testing (2021-06-08)
May 2021 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2021-06-06)
API Testing Challenge 18 - How To - GET todos No Accept Header 200 (2021-05-29)
API Testing Challenge 17 - How To - GET todos XML as Preference 200 (2021-05-29)
API Testing Challenge 16 - How To - GET todos any 200 (2021-05-29)
API Testing Challenge 15 - How To - GET todos json 200 (2021-05-09)
April 2021 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2021-05-03)
March 2021 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2021-05-03)
API Testing Challenge 14 - How To - GET todos xml 200 (2021-04-23)
API Testing Challenge 13 - How To - OPTIONS todos 200 (2021-04-21)
API Testing Challenge 12 - How To - DELETE todos/id 200 (2021-04-12)
API Testing Challenge - How To - POST todos/id 200 (2021-03-07)
February 2021 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2021-03-06)
Learn Test Automation By Taking Short Practical Steps (2021-02-26)
Can we use JUnit and TDD for Testing? (2021-02-20)
Poetry and Software Testing (2021-02-13)
January 2021 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2021-02-01)
API Testing Challenge - How To - POST todos 400 (2021-01-30)
API Testing Challenge - How To - GET todos 200 filter (2021-01-30)
A Trail of Code - 001 Find Dupes and Delete (2021-01-27)
API Testing Challenge - How To - POST todos 201 (2021-01-24)
API Testing Challenge - How To - HEAD todos 200 (2021-01-24)
Test JS Summit Day One LiveStream (2021-01-23)
December 2020 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2021-01-01)
API Testing Challenge - How To - GET todos id 404 (2020-12-15)
November 2020 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2020-12-01)
A Meta Reason for Locator Ids (2020-11-19)
October 2020 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2020-11-01)
September 2020 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2020-10-02)
API Testing Challenge - How To - GET todos id 200 (2020-09-17)
API Testing Challenge - How To - GET todo 404 (2020-09-16)
Using Code Coverage As a Review Tool (2020-09-07)
API Testing Challenge - How To - GET todos 200 (2020-09-03)
API Testing Challenge - How To - GET challenges 200 (2020-09-02)
August 2020 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2020-09-02)
REST API Open Source Workshops (2020-08-20)
Automating Calculator From Console (2020-08-19)
Unit Testing FAQs and Lessons Learned (2020-08-07)
July 2020 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2020-08-03)
API Testing Challenge - Debrief - POST challenger 201 (2020-07-31)
API Testing Challenge - How To - POST challenger 201 (2020-07-31)
API Testing Challenge Activities - a gamified playground to practice API Testing (2020-07-28)
Automating To Detect Change (2020-07-17)
Ordering Headers In HTTP Requests with RestAssured and UniRest (2020-07-06)
RestAssured Tips for Proxies and Logging (2020-07-06)
June 2020 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2020-07-06)
Because sometimes it's hard... some tips for "Working with WebDriver" (2020-06-30)
Data Driven Tests in JUnit 4 with Parameterized Tests (2020-06-27)
Using Static Analysis to improve your Java Coding (2020-06-24)
Basic Differences Between JUnit 4 and Junit 5 (2020-06-23)
Generating JUnit HTML Reports (2020-06-23)
Using Both JUnit 4 and Junit 5 (2020-06-23)
How to fix Java Language Level Issues (2020-06-22)
What is Software Testing? My working definition. (2020-06-21)
What is Software Testing? - definitions (2020-06-21)
How to Turn on and off JavaScript in Firefox and Chrome (2020-06-15)
Comparing Automated Tic Tac Toe GamePlay Implementations (2020-06-11)
Can we effectively use Thread.sleep? (2020-06-09)
You can submit to Conferences (2020-06-06)
How and Why to use Variation in Software Testing (2020-06-03)
Humpty Dumpty - "a tale of risk and... other stuff" (2020-06-02)
May 2020 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2020-06-02)
Automate Playing Tic Tac Toe online game using JavaScript from the browser console. (2020-06-01)
April 2020 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2020-05-02)
Tips for Presenting Online (2020-04-22)
Tips For Learning JavaScript (2020-04-14)
How to assess coverage of automation? (2020-04-09)
March 2020 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2020-04-02)
Observation vs Interrogation (2020-03-23)
Learn to Synchronise WebDriver And Avoid Flaky Test Automation (2020-03-20)
What does it take to find bugs? (2020-03-09)
February 2020 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2020-03-03)
Software Testing and Spies in The Art of War (2020-02-14)
January 2020 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2020-02-10)
December 2019 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2020-01-15)
Collated Collection of Evil Tester Comics (2020-01-02)
November 2019 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2019-12-05)
Risks, Issues, Benefits Of Tactically Automating Twitter Case Study (2019-12-03)
Automating Deselection and Unchecking of Twitter Interests (2019-11-25)
How to Ask for Help and Support Online (2019-11-22)
How to Proxy Localhost or Docker (2019-11-18)
Journaling and the October 2019 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2019-11-07)
Good Testing Requires Technological Understanding and Appropriate Tools (2019-11-01)
On Goodness, Automation and Modelling (2019-10-29)
Reflections on Names, Nasty, Variation and Mystery (2019-10-22)
How to Randomize your Software Testing Thought Process (2019-10-18)
September 2019 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2019-10-01)
August 2019 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2019-09-03)
Overview of LEAPWORK Web Automating Tool (2019-08-30)
Example of modelling an application flow as a diagram for Software Testing (2019-08-14)
July 2019 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2019-08-11)
I need a tool... no, you need to work on the system (2019-07-17)
An Introduction to API Based Documentation Automating (2019-07-12)
June 2019 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2019-07-03)
How to write a link checker in the browser with Vanilla JavaScript (2019-07-02)
Overview of AccelQ Web Automating Tool (2019-06-20)
May 2019 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2019-06-05)
Recommended Subjects For Study (2019-06-02)
Recommended Tools (2019-06-02)
April 2019 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2019-05-03)
What to do if your Chrome Extension is Rejected from Chrome Store (2019-04-03)
How to Release a Chrome Extension to the Chrome Store (2019-04-02)
March 2019 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2019-04-01)
Review of Emmet Re-view Chrome extension (2019-03-15)
Chrome functionality or extensions for responsive web testing? (2019-03-13)
Which is the best link checking tool? (2019-03-09)
What is Software Testing And Why Do We Test Software? (2019-03-06)
Are there any programming Katas related to testing? (2019-03-04)
February 2019 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2019-03-04)
How to View URL Query Parameters using Browser Dev Tools (2019-03-02)
How to Write a Chrome Extension from JavaScript Snippets code (2019-02-28)
A Deep Dive investigation of a HTML search button bug in Github (2019-02-28)
A Deep Dive investigation of a live bug in Github (2019-02-27)
Demo of CounterStrings in Action finding a live bug in Github (2019-02-26)
Which is easier QA Engineer, Software Developer or QA Automation Engineer? Quora Answer (2019-02-25)
CloudApp Tool Review for Testing and Consultancy (2019-02-22)
JavaScript Tutorial Creating a CounterString tool in Chrome Browser Dev Tools Snippets (2019-02-19)
What is the best fuzzer (automated software testing tool) to find 0-days? Why? Quora Answer (2019-02-13)
When getting rid of a browser, what are the advantages of using taskkill.exe over close method in Selenium? Quora (2019-02-13)
Firefox is opening and test is running but there are errors in the logs (2019-02-13)
Hacking JavaScript Games - Accessing private javascript variables at runtime via debugging (2019-02-12)
How to Practice your JavaScript, Software Testing and Test Automation (2019-02-07)
How to Pretty Print JSON using Browser Dev Tools (2019-02-04)
How to bypass no paste controls on a web form (2019-02-03)
What does the EvilTester Patreon Contain? (2019-02-01)
Evil Tester Content Summary For January 2019 (2019-02-01)
What is Boundary Value Analysis? Software Testing Technique explained with real world examples. (2019-01-24)
A Tactical Automation Case Study - Java, JavaScript, API and Dev Tools (2019-01-14)
Pro Con Critical Evaluation - but What If? (2019-01-09)
Patreon for Software Testing and Development (2019-01-06)
A Testing Case Study for Merging Blogs (2018-12-28)
Tips for a Successful Test Automation Proof of Concept (2018-12-05)
Technical risk of moving to https (2018-12-04)
Do not look for Cheap Black Friday Deal Testing (2018-11-23)
Digital Marketing FIT Small Business Influencers (2018-11-04)
Postman Snippets to Assert API response status codes (2018-11-02)
Instagram Private Information not private on Business Accounts (2018-11-01)
October 2018 Summary Report (2018-10-31)
Amending HTTP Traffic within a Browser - Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge (2018-10-26)
How to Take Screenshots in a Browser (2018-10-24)
Luck, Opportunity and Contextual Advice (2018-10-05)
Lead without authority by having courage (2018-09-21)
What if we don't use the words verification and validation? (2018-09-11)
Do you answer your own rhetorical questions? (2018-09-04)
Test Automation ROI Exercises (2018-08-28)
How To Invest In Testing (2018-08-23)
Click bots for social media and beyond (2018-08-21)
Exploratory Testing Clean Recon Live Example (2018-08-15)
Compendium of Practice Testing Apps version 1.2 (2018-08-03)
Exercise - how many ways to count the values in a json array returned from a REST API call? (2018-07-29)
Using a Travel Router for Mobile Testing (2018-07-05)
Live Web Exploratory Technical Testing Session Example (2018-07-03)
Freemind Scripting for Markdown Presentation Generation (2018-06-29)
Notes on Shift Left in Testing and Software Development (2018-06-11)
The Question - Are there any Software Testing super heroes? (2018-06-01)
Google Advanced Searches - Google Dorks (2018-05-30)
On Hacking and Being Hacked (2018-05-15)
Protect The Square and Buggy Games (2018-05-09)
CounterString Algorithms (2018-05-08)
When Management Systems Restrict Testing - Crowdsourced Functional and Security Testing Mismatch (2018-05-04)
A Compendium of Testing Apps (2018-04-26)
How to use the Source Code for the Book Automating and Testing a REST API (2018-04-12)
How to use Test Practice Pages and Games from Evil Tester (2018-04-12)
How to install cURL on Windows (2018-03-29)
Using the Turnkey Linux VM for Tracks Testing (2018-03-23)
Automated Execution for Acceptance Testing - Java JUnit FizzBuzz (2018-03-20)
TDD - Test Driven Development - Java JUnit FizzBuzz (2018-03-04)
A practice exploratory testing session - javascript button game (2018-03-02)
Problem Solving as Software Development (2018-02-23)
Considering a Career in Software Testing? (2018-02-21)
Your Automated Execution Does Not Have to Be Flaky (2018-02-12)
Promoting Evil Tester Talks Conference Talk and Webinar Archive (2018-01-16)
Testability vs Automatability - in theory (Free Bonus Video Inside) (2018-01-12)
Proof of Concept vs Minimum Viable Product (2017-12-24)
Automating Storify and Twitter Using JavaScript From the Dev Tools (2017-12-18)
What is Agile Testing? The Books List (2017-11-27)
Allow your best candidates to shine. Interview over the phone. Audition face to face. (2017-11-21)
What is Agile Testing? The Evil Tester's Guide To Agile (2017-11-17)
The Evil Tester's (Mini) Guide To Agile (2017-11-16)
Recruit People, Don't Fulfil Roles (2017-11-14)
A Treatise of Buggs (2017-11-09)
What is Regression Testing? Software Testing FAQs and Definitions (2017-10-24)
Test Automation and Test Process Modelling - an evolutionary and pictorial explanation (2017-09-22)
How to overcome Impostor Syndrome and use your brain's learning mechanisms to improve your public speaking skills (2017-09-15)
Course Branding Image Revamp and the Google Image Search Tool (2017-09-07)
Automating and Testing a REST API Paperback Edition (2017-09-01)
I wish companies offered functional bug bounties - not just security bug bounties (2017-08-30)
A Diagram for a Logical Model of Automating With Abstraction Layers (2017-08-26)
3 Reasons to use Insomnia REST Client in your Exploratory API Testing (2017-08-18)
Use your malevolent powers for good (2017-07-17)
What is better for testing a web application - Protractor or Selenium? Quora Answer (2017-07-15)
Can Manual Testers Learn to Automate? Answer to Quora Question (2017-07-14)
Can QA testers do unit testing? Quora (2017-07-13)
How can I start API testing with Rest-Assured Library? Quora (2017-07-13)
How do I identify fake selenium testers? (2017-07-13)
How do you record exploratory testing? Quora (2017-07-13)
Where can I find a software testing project (manual testing) for learning real-time scenarios? Quora (2017-07-13)
Using Browser Dev tools to investigate and bypass GUI error reporting bugs (2017-07-13)
Are you stable, or complacent? Is it time to experiment yet? (2017-07-10)
How to improve your software testing skills by following Isaac Newton's strategies (2017-07-07)
How to use your testing skills to bag a SNES Classic Mini Pre-Order (2017-06-29)
Quaere, Heuristics, Mnemonics, and Acronyms (2017-05-24)
Dev Ops Article in May Test Magazine (2017-05-21)
How to use JavaScript Bookmarklets to Amend Web Page Example [Tutorial Text and Video] (2017-05-19)
TOTE Model For Testers - Test, Operate, Test, Exit (2017-05-08)
Notes on Structured Analysis and System Specification by Tom Demarco (2017-04-27)
Do you know what your framework is doing? A quick use of WebPageTest. (2017-04-26)
Notes from Glenford Myers Advances in Computer Architecture (2017-04-25)
A Quick Intro To BookMarkLets (2017-04-24)
Lessons from the making of "Are you Experienced" (2017-04-21)
Lessons from "Platoon Leader" by James McDonough (2017-04-20)
Normal is the rarest of all states (2017-04-19)
Input -> Process -> Output - I test Systems (2017-04-18)
That moment where you should have automated but didn't (2017-04-13)
How do you interview testers? (2017-03-30)
Top Ten Books For Testers for Huib Schoots (2017-03-17)
Representation and Meaning: relating Programming, Testing, Coding and Checking (2017-03-12)
Ambiguity Detection and Weaponisation for Software Testers (2017-03-08)
Harness Your Ruthless Efficiency as MVP in testing and development (2017-02-17)
Should I test at the GUI Level or the API Level? (2017-02-15)
How to test a text adventure game - some notes on Testing RestMud (2017-01-31)
RestMud Text Adventure Game for Testers Walkthrough (2017-01-31)
What do you do? As a Tester, when you are asked for ROI calculation (2017-01-12)
Recognise and Improve Your Personal Test Process (2017-01-03)
Hack the JavaScript Evil Tester Sloganizer to Generate Random New Year's Resolutions (2017-01-02)
Lessons Learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger Applied to Software Testing (2017-01-02)
Happy Testing New Year (for 2017) (2016-12-31)
How to configure Postman Native Client App to use an external proxy (2016-12-30)
Software Testing Definitions and Models - How and Why to Create your own Definition (2016-12-16)
A testing challenge for you "I T.E.S.T with A.T.T.I.T.U.D.E" (2016-12-12)
Taking Software Testing More Seriously By Using Humour (2016-12-09)
Lessons learned and tips for testing from public bug bash events (2016-12-08)
How to improve your CV and improve your chances of finding your next software testing job (2016-12-07)
Hacking JavaScript Games - Cellular Automata - Supporting Notes (2016-12-01)
A retrospective critique of an exploratory testing session (2016-11-29)
Software Testing YouTube Channels to Subscribe to - and how to subscribe (2016-11-24)
A live exploratory testing session recorded (2016-11-21)
Announcing A New Test Tool - TestToolHub - Counterstrings, and more... (2016-11-13)
Q: when do we prefer manual testing over automated testing? A: Hmmm.... (2016-10-25)
A Case Study in Creating a Conference Presentation using Markdown (2016-10-06)
Adhoc testing of incrementally developed HTML and CSS (2016-09-29)
You can improve your JavaScript skills and have fun at the same time (2016-09-28)
How to Use Chrome Developer Tools JavaScript Source Snippets (2016-09-26)
How to use the JavaScript Console for Technical Web Testing (2016-09-23)
How to Treat your Application as an API - "App as API" (2016-09-22)
How to write a simple random test data sentence generator (2016-09-21)
Difference between hacking, cheating and automating? (2016-09-19)
Lessons learned from Automating - Instantiated (2016-09-16)
Hacking JavaScript Games to improve your testing (2016-09-14)
Is there a difference between "Responsive Web Testing" and "Cross Browser Testing"? (2016-09-14)
Stop finding simple bugs. Use Automated Validation tools early. (2016-09-13)
Introducing Pious Sanctimonious Standard Compliance Boy (2016-09-13)
Batch validation of HTML as part of your web testing with Total Validator (2016-09-09)
How to add HTML validation into your test process without even trying (2016-09-08)
What could possibly go wrong? And what to do about it? (2016-09-08)
Dear Evil Tester: I think that if I 'learn automation' I can get a new job FAST (2016-09-06)
Dear Evil Tester "I want to keep my testing skills up to date otherwise I might not get another job" (2016-09-06)
Dear Evil Tester: I think that if I 'learn automation' I can get this specific type of job (2016-09-06)
A Model of Automating (2016-09-05)
Dear Evil Tester: "How can I learn Automation?" (2016-09-02)
We test REST even if it isn't REST (2016-07-22)
On Workarounds and Fixes (2016-07-22)
An Open Answer to an Open Letter (2016-07-15)
Risk Mitigation Using Exploratory and Technical Testing (2016-06-28)
Text Adventure Games for Testers (2016-06-13)
Some "Dear Evil Tester" Book Reviews (2016-06-07)
How to Watch Repositories on Github via a NewsFeed (2016-04-08)
Behind the Scenes: Tools and workflow for blogging on blogger and writing for other reasons (2016-04-06)
Join the Anti Test-Automation Brigade Article for Testing Circus Magazine (2016-04-04)
Everyday Browsing to improve your web testing skills - Why? (2016-03-31)
Coding for workarounds so you know when they are not needed (2016-03-24)
What is the Role of a Tester on Agile Projects? (2016-03-22)
Behind the Scenes - "Dear Evil Tester" lessons in risk based release management (2016-03-21)
Behind the Scenes - The "Dear Evil Tester" Style Guide and its Impact on my Testing (2016-03-18)
Behind the scenes of Dear Evil Tester : Hitting Publish (2016-03-17)
How to draw Evil Tester (2016-03-14)
Behind the scenes: Dear Evil Tester Book editing continues with testing hints on Observation (2016-03-11)
Behind the scenes: publishing and editing Dear Evil Tester book on leanpub (2016-03-11)
Announcing "Dear Evil Tester" coming soon, and why I wrote it (2016-03-10)
Video Version of Lessons Learned Testing the House of Test contest app (2016-03-08)
Lessons Learned Testing the House of Test contest app (2016-02-29)
I did not know Firefox could do that: Syntax Error Highlighting in "View Page Source" (2016-01-18)
Dear Evil Tester, Who is Stafford Beer and Why should I care? (2016-01-11)
Technical Testing with MS Edge and "the user will never do that" (2016-01-08)
Test Automation in Cybernetics And Management (2016-01-07)
Lessons learned from Black Ops Testing - Testing a JavaScript library (2015-07-14)
Lessons Learned Testing QA Mail for Black Ops Testing (2015-05-12)
Some API Testing Basic Introductory Notes and Tools (2015-01-26)
My search for easy to use, free, local HTTP servers (2014-12-18)
An exploratory testing example explored: Taskwarrior (2014-09-24)
Lessons learned testing Command Line Applications from Black Ops Testing Webinar (2014-09-23)
Using Wireshark to observe Mobile HTTP Network traffic (2014-09-10)
How to convert VirtualBox to VMWare and install the ethernet device drivers (2014-08-14)
Testing Circus Magazine Interview with Alan Richardson (2014-05-11)
Back to Basics: How to use the Windows Command Line (2014-02-17)
Introducing Virtualbox modern.ie Turnkey Virtual Machines for Web Testing (2014-02-13)
How to emulate mobile devices using Chrome browser (2014-02-06)
How to use Jira to subjectively track and report daily on your testing? (2013-11-22)
How to connect your iOS device to an HTTP proxy on your desktop or laptop (2013-11-01)
Create a local WiFi hotspot for testing using connectify.me (2013-10-25)
How to chain HTTP Debug Proxies (2013-10-24)
How to view http traffic on your mobile phone device via a computer proxy (2013-10-23)
Android and IOS Screen Capture, Streaming and ScreenRecording tools for Mobile Testing (2013-10-04)
WinMerge Revisited - my default file and directory comparison tool (2013-09-27)
10 Experiments to Improve Your Exploratory Testing Note Taking (2013-09-06)
FAQ: Why are my JUnit 4 asserts showing as deprecated (2013-08-30)
How would you check that a www web site redirects to a mobile site? (2013-08-30)
Maven Troubleshooting, Hints Tips and FAQs (2013-08-22)
Don't go live with simple security problems - 10 tips to help (2013-07-23)
A Bugzilla exploratory testing session from the vaults (2013-05-31)
Thinking Visually in Software Testing (2013-05-16)
Abstraction in Action for Automating Applications (2013-05-04)
Silver Bullets and Magic Bullets in Software Testing (2013-05-04)
"I was a zombie tester" a true story (2013-04-12)
What does a technical exploratory test session look like? (2013-03-06)
Selenium Simplified Webinar 002 - Page & Domain Objects (2013-02-22)
V-Model Reclaimed (2013-02-11)
Selenium Simplified Webinar 001 - Getting started (2013-02-08)
The Evil Testers Guide to Technical Testing (2012-12-04)
Three Software Testing Books I'd like to read (2012-04-06)
NLP For Testers (2012-02-17)
Q: What is Testing? A: look inside... (2012-02-17)
Build your own model of software testing – or rediscover one from several thousand years ago (2011-10-31)
Push your software testing personas to the limit (2011-10-30)
Build your own model of software testing – "the quotes" (2011-10-29)
Running out of email addresses when you test? (2011-09-20)
How Can I Estimate My Testing? (2011-06-28)
Use Real Words to Communicate, Not Testing Phrases (2011-05-31)
Tutorial on Burp Suite Repeater and Intruder (2011-04-21)
Paranoia as a learning and testing strategy (2011-03-14)
Sub-cultural Testing Influences gone mainstream #1 – The Assassins Creed (2011-03-12)
Dangerous Test Concepts Exposed - QA and 'Types' of Testing (2011-03-08)
The Cross-Disciple Pirates and the Canon of Test Techniques (2011-03-04)
Exploratory Testing Lessons from the Tao Te Ching (2011-02-24)
Can a new certification survey change the landscape of Software Testing Certification? (2011-02-21)
A Tester is For Life Not Just For Christmas ebook interview (2010-12-01)
A poor man's testing Head Up Display (2010-03-19)
Book Review: Coders at Work by Peter Seibel (2009-11-01)
Book Review: Agile Testing by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory (2009-08-02)
Do you still remember your first 'real' test (2009-02-18)
Book Review: How We Test Software At Microsoft (2009-02-04)
Locky - the file locking test tool (2009-01-20)
Notes on the evolution of my exploratory testing documentation style (2009-01-16)
Exploratory Test Assistant - a tool for recording your exploratorytesting notes (2009-01-15)
Book Review: Next Generation Java Testing by Cedric Beust and HaniSuleiman (2008-10-13)
Apache JMeter - Book Review (2008-09-28)
Software Testing, A Funny Business (2008-07-23)
Clicking the buttons in QUnit functional testing with JQuery (2008-06-18)
Functional testing JavaScript with QUnit - initial steps (2008-06-17)
Test Driven JavaScript Code Coverage using JSCoverage (2008-06-08)
Book Review: Pragmatic Ajax - A Web 2.0 Primer by Gehtland, Galbraithand Almaer (2008-06-08)
Test Driven JavaScript using QUnit (2008-06-06)
Evil Tester and The Agile Team (2008-05-18)
Slogans! Slogans! Seriously, we don't need no stinkin' slogans. (2008-05-11)
A Short History of my ISEB Software Testing Certification involvement (2008-05-04)
Question: Which applications do you use during interviews to 'see' how candidates do exploratory testing? (2008-04-28)
5 books I recommend to software testers that most testers have probably never read (2008-04-22)
Challenge your assumptions and presuppositions to identify useful variation (2008-04-18)
Book Review: Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C. Feathers (2008-04-18)
Software Testing Lessons from Brief Counselling and Therapy (2008-04-11)
Book Review: JUnit Recipes by J. B. Rainsberger, Scott Stirling (2008-04-11)
Create Software Test Ideas Fast Using Presentation PreparationTechniques (2008-04-08)
The Craft of Sofware Testing - Book Review (2008-03-27)
Book Review: Beyond Bullet Points by Cliff Atkinson (2008-03-17)
A generalised model for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) (2008-03-09)
How to do software User Acceptance Testing (UAT) really badly (2008-03-07)
A simple explanation of dependency injection (2008-03-04)
Tracking TDD mistakes so I can fix them (2008-03-01)
My Novice Mistakes in Test Driven Development (2008-02-28)
Some Notes on Software Testing Waste - my lean perspective (2008-02-20)
Book Review: Software Testing Fundamentals by Marnie L. Hutcheson (2008-02-18)
Notes on 'abstraction' and 'equivalence classes' in Software Testing (2008-02-11)
ISEB, and the train that won't stop going (2008-02-08)
My notes on how to study for ISEB foundation (2008-02-06)
Book Review: Testing Computer Software by Kaner, Falk, Nguyen (2008-02-04)
Book Review: Systematic Software Testing by Rick Craig & Stefan Jaskiel (2008-02-04)
ISEB testing certification, fear, and the hiring dilemma (2008-02-01)
I thought you were a tester but... you're programming (2008-01-30)
Book Review: Software Testing by Ron Patton (2008-01-28)
How to find out where the time goes (2008-01-24)
Agile Acceptance Testing (2008-01-21)
5 Exploratory Test Documentation Lessons (2008-01-19)
"Martial deals with surprise" - GTD related to testing (2008-01-18)
Adhoc Automating Using SQL For WordPress Migration (2007-12-28)
AutoIt free basic Windows Automation (2006-06-17)
Can the words that we use affect our thinking (2006-04-26)
I am a bug - Book Review (2005-03-14)
Being Resourceful when your hands are tied (2004-08-04)
Help Yourself - Self Education for Software Testers (2004-01-04)
Tom Gilb Competitive Engineering Courses (2003-10-20)
T.O.T.E - Test, Operate, Test, Exit for Software Testing (2002-08-15)
Lessons Learned in Software Testing (2002-04-03)
Popular testing phrases #57 - Testing should start early (2002-04-01)
The Actor's Ways and Means (2002-03-11)
Finding Faults with Software Testing (2002-02-13)
Test Conditions (2002-02-08)
Process Improvement (2002-02-07)
Error Guessing (2002-02-06)
Testing and Modelling using Exploration (2002-02-05)
Testing and Modelling (2002-02-04)
Checking the model (2002-02-03)
Modelling the development process (2002-02-02)
On Modelling (2002-02-01)
An exploration of, and notes on, the process of Test Scripting (2002-01-16)
An exploration of, and notes on, model path analysis for Testing (2002-01-15)
Modelling Tesla for Software Testing (2002-01-04)
Charity Shop Shopping For Software Testing Books (2002-01-04)
The Cost of DIY Quality (2002-01-04)
Object Oriented Software Testing: A Hierarchical Approach Book Review (2001-10-18)
The Design of Everyday Things - Book Review (2001-10-18)
Amplifying Your Effectiveness - Book Review (2001-10-10)
The Complete Guide to Software Testing - Book Review (2001-10-03)
A Hacker's Guide to Project Management Book Review (2000-08-02)
Software Testing Techniques Book Review (2000-06-29)
Functional Program Testing & Analysis - Book Review (2000-02-05)
Black Box Testing - Book Review (2000-02-03)