This is a list of content I posted to, or found useful, on Twitter. And stuff I posted to my blog, and Patreon.

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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 postdescribing 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