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This is a list of content I posted to, or found useful, on Twitter. And stuff I posted to Patreon.<a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/24389995">Back to Index of all monthly summaries</a> In July I did a lot of work on the <a href="https://apichallenges.herokuapp.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">API Challenges</a> and now they all have fully captioned video and text solutions, I even added a few learning modes like the Simulation mode and Mirror Mode (but technically I think I released those in August, so I shouldn't mention them here).<h3>Twitter</h3><ul> <li>I thought this video from Chris Hawkes was a really good overview of JavaScript project structure and tooling <a href="https://twitter.com/eviltester/status/1420754703663591427" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">twitter.com/eviltester/status/1420754703663591427</a></li> <li>PactumJS automated the API Challenges in... PactumJS <a href="https://twitter.com/eviltester/status/1419546390259240964" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">twitter.com/eviltester/status/1419546390259240964</a></li> <li>19 years ago I was on an Exploratory Testing Training Course provided by James Bach... time flies <a href="https://twitter.com/eviltester/status/1419409647207866370" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">twitter.com/eviltester/status/1419409647207866370</a></li> <li>Giant List of APIs to experiment with or use <a href="https://twitter.com/eviltester/status/1413609743604666368" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">twitter.com/eviltester/status/1413609743604666368</a></li> <li>On Racket, is there such a thing as an evil tester? <a href="https://twitter.com/eviltester/status/1421010831349850113" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">twitter.com/eviltester/status/1421010831349850113</a></li> <li>On Racket, I'm not ready for that... or am I? <a href="https://twitter.com/eviltester/status/1412825174416756741" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">twitter.com/eviltester/status/1412825174416756741</a></li> <li>My CSV, JSON, HTML, Markdown, Gherkin table generator <a href="https://twitter.com/eviltester/status/1412792341472202758" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">twitter.com/eviltester/status/1412792341472202758</a></li> <li>On Racket, experts make stuff up <a href="https://twitter.com/eviltester/status/1412461318632873988" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">twitter.com/eviltester/status/1412461318632873988</a></li> <li>On Racket, API Automating Tips <a href="https://twitter.com/eviltester/status/1412158023666212870" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">twitter.com/eviltester/status/1412158023666212870</a> </li></ul><h3> </h3><h3>Patreon Posts For July 2021</h3><ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/is-there-such-as-54304023">Is there such a thing as an evil tester? Directors Cut Expanded Edition</a></li></ul>An expanded version of my AMA Racket answer.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/protective-54266010">Protective Behaviour</a></li></ul>Very often testers are on the blunt end of poor behaviour... some strategies for dealing with it explained.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/idiomatic-54220990">Idiomatic JavaScript</a></li></ul>Learning to code like a native JavaScript programmer.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/error-messages-54181358">Error messages and defaults</a></li></ul>I often create abstraction layers to protect me from making mistakes and create simple objects... but I still need to trigger errors.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/job-hunting-54138125">Job Hunting Advice</a></li></ul>Luck involves being in the right place at the right time... and having the right skills and attitudes when you get there.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/api-testing-37-54092428">API Testing Challenges 37 and 38 - How To - Use Bearer Tokens</a></li></ul>How to complete the Bearer Token challenges to GET and POST the secret note.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/api-testing-35-54091910">API Testing Challenges 35 and 36 - How To - POST Unauthorised 401 403</a></li></ul>how to complete the Unauthorised POST secret note challenges, which return status codes of 401 and 403 and fail to amend the secret note.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/api-testing-34-54090441">API Testing Challenges 34 - How To - POST amend secret note 200</a></li></ul>how to complete the POST secret note challenge, which returns a status code of 200 and amends the secret note.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/api-testing-33-54089625">API Testing Challenges 33 - How To - GET authorized secret note 200</a></li></ul>how to complete the GET Authorized secret note challenge, which returns a status code of 200 and the secret note.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/api-testing-32-54089275">API Testing Challenges 32 - How To - unauthorized secret note 401</a></li></ul>how to complete the unauthorized secret note challenge, which returns a status code of 401 Unauthorized.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/api-testing-31-54065276">API Testing Challenges 31 - How To - forbidden secret note 403</a></li></ul>how to complete the unauthorized secret note challenge 31, which returns a status code of 403 Forbidden.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/api-testing-30-54058810">API Testing Challenges 30 - How To - authentication passed 201</a></li></ul>how to complete the basic auth authentication using username and password challenge number 30, which returns a status code of 201.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/api-testing-29-54057993">API Testing Challenges 29 - How To - authentication failed 401</a></li></ul>how to complete the authentication failed with username and password challenge number 29, which returns a status code of 401.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/automation-is-54034737">Automation is everywhere</a></li></ul>Some notes on automation in creative work.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/people-and-53996369">People and Resources</a></li></ul>When are resources people?<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-if-i-dont-53953809">What if I don't?</a></li></ul>Transaction testing and cancellations.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/lessons-from-to-53914929">Lessons from coding Automated Execution applied to apps</a></li></ul>I've changed the way that I program now, because of lessons I've learned when automating.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/some-notes-from-53871778">Some notes from Family Traditions</a></li></ul>There is a science to the use of weaponry. If you try to kill someone without knowing the science, you will probably be killed yourself.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/api-testing-25-53822534">API Testing Challenges 25, 26, 27, 28 - How To - Status codes 405, 500, 501, 204</a></li></ul>how to complete the status code challenges. Numbers 25, 26, 27, 28 which trigger the status codes 405, 500, 501 and 204.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/api-testing-24-53821574">API Testing Challenge 24 - How To - POST JSON accept XML</a></li></ul>How to complete the challenge POST /todos JSON to XML to send a POST request to create a todo item using JSON but receive XML response.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/api-testing-23-53796838">API Testing Challenge 23 - How To - POST XML accept JSON</a></li></ul>how to complete the challenge POST /todos XML to JSON to send a POST request to create a todo item using XML but receive JSON response.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/api-testing-22-53795763">API Testing Challenge 22 - How To - POST todos (415)</a></li></ul>How to complete the challenge POST /todos (415) to send a POST request to try and create a todo item but with unsupported content type.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/api-testing-21-53795265">API Testing Challenge 21 - How To - POST todos create todo with JSON</a></li></ul>How to complete the challenge POST /todos JSON to send a POST request to create a todo item with body and response in JSON format.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/api-testing-20-53794821">API Testing Challenge 20 - How To - POST todos create todo with XML</a></li></ul>How to complete the challenge POST /todos XML to send a POST request to create a todo item with body and response in XML.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/api-testing-19-53793842">API Testing Challenge 19 - How To - GET todos Invalid Accept Header 406</a></li></ul>how to complete the challenge GET /todos (406) to send a GET request for all todos but passing in an unsupported 'accept' header<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/automation-apis-53765322">An automation example, bypassing APIs and robust GUI</a></li></ul>Nothing about automation is absolute. We do what it takes. As this example demonstrates. Abstractions and synchronisation do help.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/upcoming-changes-53727058">Upcoming Changes to Patreon Usage for August</a></li></ul>Changes I'll be making to my use of Patreon.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/cross-browser-53685695">Cross Browser Testing</a></li></ul>How to decide which browser to use?<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/testing-cookies-53648386">Testing cookies</a></li></ul>How would you test cookie consent?<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/hacky-quickfixes-53605497">Hacky quickfixes with Tags</a></li></ul>Tag manager allows injecting scripts controlled by triggers.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/summary-for-june-53571105">Summary For June 2021</a></li></ul>Summary For June 2021<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/june-2021-pdfs-53571103">June 2021 Collated PDFs</a></li></ul>June 2021 Collated PDFs<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/training-wheels-53496872">Training Wheels</a></li></ul>What are the 'training wheels' I use when testing sites?<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/looking-but-not-53457626">Looking but not seeing</a></li></ul>Sometimes I find issues just by looking.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/advocacy-or-53416491">Advocacy or Propaganda</a></li></ul>Sometimes, I don't raise defects immediately. Sometimes I create a movement.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/tooling-53330238">Tooling Obscuring</a></li></ul>Understand the limits of our tooling, so they don't go fooling our testing.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/authentic-book-53259577">Authentic Management - book notes</a></li></ul>Notes on Authentic Management - A Gestalt Orientation to Organizations and Their Development<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/foreach-and-or-53222595">forEach and every or 'some' 'of' the for iteration types 'in' JavaScript</a></li></ul>some pain learning idiomatic javascript.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-do-we-test-x-53175786">How do we test in Process X?</a></li></ul>Contextually.<h3>Blog Posts For July 2021</h3><ul> <li><a href="https://eviltester.com/blog/eviltester/2021/07/do-we-need-to-test-at-all" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Do we need Testers? What is the right question to ask?</a></li></ul>Asking questions like "Do we need testing?" are important. But there are other questions we should probably ask first.<ul> <li><a href="https://eviltester.com/blog/eviltester/summaries/2021-07-11-june-2021-summary" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">June 2021 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary</a></li></ul>Content created and collated for EvilTester.com, Patreon and Social for June 2021<ul> <li><a href="https://eviltester.com/apichallenges/howto/19-get-todos-invalid-accept-406" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">API Testing Challenge 19 - How To - GET todos Invalid Accept Header 406</a></li></ul>How to solve API challenge GET todos Invalid Accept 406 to GET the todos with an unsupported accept header present which generates a 406 error response.<ul> <li><a href="https://eviltester.com/apichallenges/howto/20-post-todos-xml" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">API Testing Challenge 20 - How To - POST todos create todo with XML</a></li></ul>How to solve API challenge POST todos XML. Creating a todo with XML format.<ul> <li><a href="https://eviltester.com/apichallenges/howto/21-post-todos-json" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">API Testing Challenge 21 - How To - POST todos create todo with JSON</a></li></ul>How to solve API challenge POST todos JSON. Creating a todo with JSON format.<ul> <li><a href="https://eviltester.com/apichallenges/howto/22-post-todos-unsupported-415" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">API Testing Challenge 22 - How To - POST todos (415)</a></li></ul>How to solve API challenge POST todos 415. Failing to creating a todo due to unsupported content format.<ul> <li><a href="https://eviltester.com/apichallenges/howto/23-post-xml-accept-json" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">API Testing Challenge 23 - How To - POST XML accept JSON</a></li></ul>How to solve API challenge POST /todos XML to JSON. Creating a todo with XML and receiving response in JSON.<ul> <li><a href="https://eviltester.com/apichallenges/howto/24-post-json-accept-xml" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">API Testing Challenge 24 - How To - POST JSON accept XML</a></li></ul>How to solve API challenge POST /todos JSON to XML. Creating a todo with JSON and receiving response in XML.<ul> <li><a href="https://eviltester.com/apichallenges/howto/25-26-27-28-status-codes-405-500-501-204" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">API Testing Challenges 25, 26, 27, 28 - How To - Status codes 405, 500, 501, 204</a></li></ul>How to solve API challenges that trigger a variety of status codes 405, 500, 501 and 204.<ul> <li><a href="https://eviltester.com/blog/eviltester/2021/07/automated-execution-finds-defects" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Q - Can we use Automated Execution to find defects? A - Yes</a></li></ul>Automated Execution can be used to find defects, and find defects we have not noticed before. This article discusses how to increase your code's chance of finding defects.<ul> <li><a href="https://eviltester.com/apichallenges/howto/29-authentication-post-secret-token" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">API Testing Challenges 29 - How To - authentication failed 401</a></li></ul>How to solve API challenge 29 - authentication failed with username and password.<ul> <li><a href="https://eviltester.com/apichallenges/howto/30-authentication-post-secret-token-201" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">API Testing Challenges 30 - How To - authentication passed 201</a></li></ul>How to solve API challenge 30 - authenticate with username and password for basic auth.<ul> <li><a href="https://eviltester.com/apichallenges/howto/31-secret-note-forbidden-403" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">API Testing Challenges 31 - How To - forbidden secret note 403</a></li></ul>How to solve API challenge 31 - forbidden to access secret note 403<ul> <li><a href="https://eviltester.com/apichallenges/howto/32-secret-note-401-unauthorized" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">API Testing Challenges 32 - How To - unauthorized secret note 401</a></li></ul>How to solve API challenge 32 - unauthorized to access secret note 403<ul> <li><a href="https://eviltester.com/apichallenges/howto/33-authorized-get-secret-note-200" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">API Testing Challenges 33 - How To - GET authorized secret note 200</a></li></ul>How to solve API challenge 33 - authorized to access secret note 200<ul> <li><a href="https://eviltester.com/apichallenges/howto/34-post-amend-secret-note-200" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">API Testing Challenges 34 - How To - POST amend secret note 200</a></li></ul>How to solve API challenge 34 - amend the secret note with a POST request and receive 200 status code<ul> <li><a href="https://eviltester.com/apichallenges/howto/35-36-post-unauthorised-401-403" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">API Testing Challenges 35 and 36 - How To - POST Unauthorised 401 403</a></li></ul>How to solve API challenge 35 and 36 - fail to amend the secret note with a POST request and receive 401 and 403 status codes<ul> <li><a href="https://eviltester.com/apichallenges/howto/37-38-bearer-token-access" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">API Testing Challenges 37 and 38 - How To - Use Bearer Tokens</a></li></ul>How to solve API challenge 37 and 38 - Use bearer token as authorization mechanism

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