January 2021 Content Summary

TLDR; January 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. And for $5 a month the Patreon 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 January 2021

• Java Magazine Article on trusted code
• A good introduction to Cybernetics
• Using Graph Theory to Explore a Domain
• Interview with Mary Catherine Bateson - Cybernetics related
• Free ZAP Conference in March
• 6 Data Scraping Tools for Data Science
• IntelliJ Tips
• AI For Text Adventure Game Playing
• Hacking an Android Game
• REST API testing academic paper
• XSS Cheatsheet
• Example videos from students explaining what they learned useful example of buildinng your profile
• Test Tribe TestFlix ebook
• Security Testing recon in action
• Java Annotated Newsletter
• Free Deep learning AI course creating bots to play games
• State Machines and Graph Walker
• When is a model not a model
• 13K JavaScript Games learn JS by studying the code

Blog Posts For January 2021

• Test JS Summit Day One LiveStream

  • Live Stream of Test JS Summit Day One free on the 28th January 2021

• API Testing Challenge - How To - HEAD todos 200

  • How to solve API challenge HEAD todos 200

• API Testing Challenge - How To - POST todos 201

  • How to solve API challenge POST todos 201 to create a todo item in the application.

• A Trail of Code - 001 Find Dupes and Delete

  • A retrospective look at some of my earliest code on Github, why I released it, and why you should feel competent enough to release your code.

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

  • How to solve API challenge GET todos 200 filter to use URL parameters to filter the results.

• API Testing Challenge - How To - POST todos 400

  • How to solve API challenge POST todos 400 to amend the request details such that they fail validation.

Patreon Posts For January 2021

• Are we really Agile?

  • Probably not, but that’s not really what we want to be.

• Learning to say no

  • Lesssons learned learning to say No

• Live stream of Test JS Summit Day 1

  • Live stream of TestJS Summit. Day 1

• Study Anything and Everything

  • Research far beyond the core topic.

• Get Your Own House In Order First

  • Prior to complaining about the environment I’m in, I try to get my own house in order.

• A foolish consistency

  • Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again

• API Testing Challenge - How To - POST todos 400

  • how to complete the challenge POST /todos (400) to fail to create a todo item in the application due to not passing validation

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

  • post and video shows how to complete the challenge GET /todos (200) ? filter to create a todo item in the application

• Patreon API Challenges Index

  • Patreon API Challenges Index

• How to learn anything

  • Modelling and Action.

• Report the evidence

  • Finding exemplars to learn from in reporting evidence seems hard.

• The Best Thing About Open Sourcing

  • The best thing about open sourcing your work is when:

• other people use it - other people contribute to it

• Lessons learned from some insecure PHP SQL coding

  • Some SQL Injection exploration from a PHP homework assignment.

• How Open Is Your Communication?

  • A company that exemplifies open communication is Gitlab.

• IDOR in the News, What can we learn?

  • Direct Object References concepts can also be useful to us when testing.

• Content Summary for December 2020

  • Content Summary for December 2020

• December 2020 Collated PDFs

  • December’s monthly collated pdfs

• The Naming of Things

  • Names are ambigous, we have to additional context, and be careful they don’t limit our thinking.

• Recursion

  • Recursion as problem solution rather than an alternative to iteration.

• Some tipping point factors when hiring

  • There is an intangible part of the interview process that is very hard to control or practice for.

• Process != Tool

  • I prefer tools I can script, because then I can make them fit my process, rather than force me to fit their process.

• Hacking JavaScript free ebook

  • 65 page free ebook on Learning JavaScript by Hacking games and applications.

• Ticket Giveaway to Test JS Summit

  • The Test JS Summit) conference offered me 5 free tickets to their conference to giveaway.

• Sales Manual for Aga Cookers 1935

  • What lessons can be learned from a sales manual for cookers written in 1935?

• Harnessing the Benefits of Pairing

  • Cross discipline pairing can be hard but has many useful benefits.

• Test JS Summit Discount

  • Test JS Summit Discount Coupon

• Using Overrides in Chrome

  • Using the script overrides in Chrome to work with the challenges.

• TestMas 2020 - Challenge 13 - Look behind all doors, explained

  • At least 4 different ways of peeking behind the TestMas doors explained in video.

• An attitude of testing

  • I still practice to maintain my testing attitude because I don’t want to hesitate to test something.

• Challenge 13 - view the messages before the due date

  • When I look at systems, I like to set myself ‘challenges’. This helps me find ways of practicing my testing and technical skills.

You can gain access to the content on Patreon for only $1 a month at patreon.com/eviltester. And for $5 a month the Patreon supporters gain access to downloadable PDFs of the content and micro courses e.g. How I Test - Web App, Test Ability Audit and more