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Applications to Practice Testing and Automating
TLDR; There is no need to practice testing on public websites and annoy the owners. There are lots of applications to use to practice.
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What is Software Testing? - a meta model
TLDR; Modelling is a fundamental skill for Software Testers. Applying modelling to Software Testing itself allows us to communicate our testing in simple terms and we can explore how concepts build on, and relate to, each other.
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- October 2022 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2022-11-01)
- September 2022 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2022-10-01)
- Chrome Dev Tools Overview 2022 (2022-09-22)
- August 2022 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2022-09-01)
- July 2022 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2022-08-01)
- June 2022 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2022-07-01)
- Using Faker to Generate Random Data in AnyWayData (2022-06-21)
- Using https cdn imports with Jest tests in JavaScript (2022-06-04)
- May 2022 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2022-06-01)
- April 2022 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2022-05-01)
- March 2022 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2022-04-14)
- Model Based Testing Thoughts (2022-03-19)
- February 2022 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2022-03-06)
- How far should you go in your investigation of a defect? (2022-02-21)
- Is there such a thing as an Evil Tester? Poking holes is good. (2022-02-21)
- Why Speak at conferences? write blogs? - To get your message out. (2022-02-21)
- Lesson Learned - I'm not ready for that vs I could do but choose not to (2022-02-20)
- Lessons Learned - Experts Make Stuff Up, They Don't Know Everything (2022-02-18)
- Automating API Tip - Use minimum, fail assert less, pass assert more (2022-02-17)
- Use Leaderboards and Counts as Triggers and Trends, not for Motivation (2022-02-17)
- January 2022 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2022-02-13)
- A beginner's guide to software testing - Claims, and Expectations. (2022-02-13)
- Software Testing Techniques are Model Based, not White/Grey/Black Box (2022-02-13)
- Tester Role vs Testing Process. Anyone can Test. Are we testing well? (2022-02-13)
- Skip your intros, jump straight to the value, edit out the fluff (2022-02-12)
- What is a Software Developer? Programmer? Tester? A Career Aspiration? (2022-02-12)
- Q. How to learn software testing? A. Identify, Try, Apply (2022-02-12)
- December 2021 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2022-01-23)
- Adopt a Personal Approach to Exploratory Testing (2021-12-28)
- November 2021 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2021-12-13)
- Cypress AG Grid Plugin for Test Automation (2021-12-09)
- Automate for yourself first (2021-11-20)
- How to Release a Chrome Extension to the Chrome Store (2021-11-14)
- October 2021 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2021-11-14)
- Jacoco Java Coverage Reporting - minimal configuration for Junit 4 and 5 (2021-11-14)
- T.O.T.E - Test, Operate, Test, Exit for Software Testing (2021-11-01)
- A Random Test Data Table Editor Tool (2021-10-30)
- Fiddler Notes and UseCases (2021-10-16)
- September 2021 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2021-10-11)
- August 2021 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2021-09-11)
- July 2021 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2021-08-11)
- API Testing Challenges - How To Use Simulation Mode (2021-08-01)
- API Testing Challenges - How To Use Mirror Mode (2021-08-01)
- API Testing Challenges 37 and 38 - How To - Use Bearer Tokens (2021-07-25)
- API Testing Challenges 35 and 36 - How To - POST Unauthorised 401 403 (2021-07-25)
- API Testing Challenges 34 - How To - POST amend secret note 200 (2021-07-25)
- API Testing Challenges 33 - How To - GET authorized secret note 200 (2021-07-25)
- 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)
- 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)
- Tips for testing with HTTP Proxies (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)
- March 2019 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary (2019-04-01)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Responsive Web 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Create a local WiFi hotspot for testing using connectify.me (2013-10-25)
- 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)
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