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I have had “A Mind At Play” by Jimmy Sonni and Rob Goodman sitting on my shelf for a while now, waiting patiently with a bookmark on page 219 for me to revisit for reflection. This is the section of the book that describes Claude Shannon’s 6 Strategies for Creative Thinking.

TLDR; Negativity tends to bias processes towards the status quo. Negative feedback causes system to change. Change is how we improve.

TLDR; Testing does not make things look good, it makes things look the way they are. At which point we can improve, and then look better.

TLDR; Quality Assurance is a process. It is not a role. Roles have responsibilities, and we all have a responsibility for quality. People don’t DO quality.

This post and video shows how to complete the challenge GET /todos No Accept (200) to successfully GET all the todos in JSON format but ensure we do not pass in an accept header.

This post and video shows how to complete the challenge GET /todos XML (200) to successfully GET all the todos in XML format as first preference.

This post and video shows how to complete the challenge GET /todos ANY (200) to successfully GET all the todos in default format.

This post and video shows how to complete the challenge GET /todos JSON (200) to successfully GET all the todos in JSON format.

Security Testing is a highly technical set of skills, covering a wide domain of knowledge that can take a long time to learn and gain proficiency. But there are simple ways to increase the scope of what we already do to provide more insight into the security of our application.

This post and video shows how to complete the challenge GET /todos XML (200) to successfully GET all the todos in XML format.