September 2020 Content Summary

TLDR; Content created and collated for EvilTester.com, Patreon and Social for September 2020.

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

Twitter

• Viv Richards pointed out that the Useful JS Snippets Extension that he and I worked on, is now two years old. Time flies.
• @harish_josev created a blog post describing Toyota JIT processes.

Blog Posts For September 2020

• August 2020 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary

  • Content created and collated for EvilTester.com, Patreon and Social for August 2020

• API Testing Challenge - How To - GET challenges 200

  • How to solve challenge GET challenges 200.

• API Testing Challenge - How To - GET todos 200

  • How to solve challenge GET todos 200.

• Using Code Coverage As a Review Tool

  • How to use code coverage as a review tool.

• Open Source Profile - Keynote at the Open Quality Conference

  • How to create an open source profile and incrementally build a portfolio by adding value through sharing your learning, experience and thoughts.

• API Testing Challenge - How To - GET todo 404

  • How to solve challenge GET todo 404.

• API Testing Challenge - How To - GET todos id 200

  • How to solve challenge GET todos id 200.

Patreon Posts For September 2020

• Noise, Signals, Information

  • How I cut out noise and amplify information.

• More Automation Abuse

  • Alternative thinking about automation tooling.

• Abused by Automation

  • Sometimes we are on the wrong end of automation abuse.

• System Emergent Behaviour - abusing automation

  • In a world where more and more is being automated, how can we can edge?

• Exploring Absolutes and Certainty

  • Testers explore certainty to find its limits.

• JSFiddle for prototyping

  • JSFiddle makes a great prototyping tool.

• WWWHW and Role Overlap

  • Thinking about the differences between product and development.

• Backlog Bankruptcy

  • What is Backlog Bankruptcy and how can we avoid it?

• Share as much as you can

  • Working on my talk for the Open Quality Conference I realise I started deliberately open sourcing back in 2012.

• Reverse Engineering Search

  • Why on earth would someone want to reverse engineer search? And do we have the skills to do it?

• Testing Searching

  • Some notes on testing search

• Revisit, Refresh, Repurpose

  • Making use of old notes and ideas.

• OKRs, KPIs, KRIs and KWIs

  • Creating a new acronym to help me with Risk Analysis. The KWI.

• Notes on ‘Inspired’ by Marty Cagan

  • a pragmatic summary of the product role in an Agile process

• Open Quality Conference

  • Initial details of my Open Quality Conference talk in October.

• Out of print and alternative uses

  • An economic case for developing multiple skills.

• Notes after reading Software Security - Building Security In

  • Some thoughts on testing triggered by reading ‘Software Security - Building Security In’

• Moving from Mocking to Domain Objects and trending time

  • Examples of the difference that moving to domain objects made to my unit tests, and recommendations on trending build times.

• Examples of Mixed Approach to Automating

  • Examples showing a mix of GUI, HTTP simulating GUI calls, API calls, GUI making API calls. Injecting session cookies and other abstractions.

• Using Patreon API and Workarounds

  • Some notes on API usage and automation workarounds.

• Risk of Unofficial Apis and the future of scraping

  • I suspect we will see more ‘automation’ via extensions in the future.

• API Challenges - How to Solve POST todos 201 in Insomnia

  • This post and video shows how to complete the challenge POST /todos (201) to create a todo item in the application using Insomnia.

• API Challenges - How to Solve HEAD todos 200 in Insomnia

  • This post and video shows how to complete the challenge HEAD /todos (200) using Insomnia.

• Code Coverage as a Review Tool

  • I will be releasing this video and content to youtube and my blog later. But this is an early ad-free release for Patreon.

• Error Messages Guiding Testing

  • I fixed some error message reporting in my tool and wrote some thoughts on using Error messages to guide testing.

• August 2020 Collated PDFs

  • PDFs for August 2020

• Content Summary for August 2020

  • Content Summary for August 2020

• Automating Tactically with a Strategic Focus

  • Examples of some automated execution, one purely tactical, and the other being build tactically, but with a view for long term use.

• API Challenges - How to Solve GET todos id 404 in Insomnia

  • How to Solve GET todos id 404 API Challenge in Insomnia

• API Challenges - How to Solve GET todos id 200 in Insomnia

  • Learn how to solve the 5th API Challenge,

• API Challenges - How to Solve GET todo 404 in Insomnia

  • Learn how to solve the 3rd API Challenge

• API Challenges - How to Solve GET todos 200 in Insomnia

  • Learn how to solve the 3rd API Challenge

• API Challenges How To - Get Challenges 200

  • How to solve API Challenges - GET Challenges 200

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