October 2020 Content Summary

TLDR; October content contains links to updated practice applications, and new videos.

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

• A useful fuzzing video from Alper Basaran (https://twitter.com/basaranalper)
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUWhXE3rtxA
• Cheating at online video games
  • https://labs.bishopfox.com/industry-blog/cheating-at-online-video-games-part-1
• Diagrams as Code
  • https://dev.to/simonbrown/diagrams-as-code-20eo
• This repo from Titus Fortner has some useful slides on WebDriver
  • https://github.com/titusfortner/framework_workshop/releases/tag/v1
• Switching JDK versions, because I always forget how to do this
  • https://medium.com/@devkosal/switching-java-jdk-versions-on-macos-80bc868e686a
• A CORS test tool
  • http://test-cors.org/

Patreon Posts For October 2020

• Java Optimisation with JMH

  • Some notes on JMH for Java Optimisation.

• Exploring Requirements

  • Are requirements designed to stop us thinking and questioning?

• Negotiation is for humans

  • communicate as a human to negotiate as a human

• Communicating so management understand

  • Matching other language patterns to gain authority.

• Exploratory Testing Note Taking Conventions

  • Some notes on some recent exploratory testing notes.

• Amending Traffic in Chrome without extra tooling

  • As a challenge for myself today I wanted to amend network traffic, in Chrome, without using any extra tools or plugins.

• An SQL Injection Example

  • A small SQL Injection example

• Is Software Getting Worse? We need better risk analysis.

  • Getting better at testing doesn’t help when our technology implementation embeds so many risks in it. We need better risk analysis skills.

• Practice

  • practicing for good reason

• url amendments

  • The simplest ’technical testing’ technique I know.

• Weak Signals, Observability and Versions

  • How analytics can aid observability and detect weak signals that hint at bugs.

• A Questioning Sequence for ‘Should I automate this?’

  • The thought process and actions I took when thinking about automating a migration process.

• working in public

  • How to make your work, thoughts, decisions, risks, issues… public, and why.

• System Process Risks and Natural Ability

  • What natural abilities do you bring to the table that you can hone and use to devastating effect.

• CORS, debugging and issues

  • Some information about the CORS workflow and debugging tools.

• Reconsidering my video creation software

  • I’m evaluating new tools for recording videos.

• Adding Value Fast, Even When We Are Not Allowed To

  • Some tactics I used to use in Waterfall to bypass process that continue to work to this day.

• Considering a Career in Software Testing

  • Are you considering a career in software testing? Watch this video first before making any decision.

• 5 tips for becoming a better tester

  • 5 tips

• Transference of Doubt

  • ’transferring the certainty of doubt’

• Content Summary for September 2020

  • Content Summary for September 2020

• September 2020 Collated PDFs

  • The September content pdfs.

• JFreeChart and XChart Examples

  • Charting libraries for tactical data graphing.

• Noise, Signals, Information

  • How I cut out noise and amplify information.

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