Blog Posts Index

Subscribe to the full blog feed using RSS

How to Release a Chrome Extension to the Chrome Store

Apr 2, 2019 - 2 minute read - Evil Tester JavaScript Chrome Extension

Writing a Chrome Extension is pretty easy (getting it in the Chrome Store is much harder!). In this post I describe the steps to release an extension.

March 2019 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary

Apr 1, 2019 - 4 minute read - Software Testing Evil Tester

TLDR; Another month of lots of content with tools, blog posts, patreon and links

Review of Emmet Re-view Chrome extension

Mar 15, 2019 - 1 minute read - Software Testing Evil Tester

TLDR; Emmet Re:view is a useful Chrome extension for responsive layout testing

During my search for responsive testing tools I found Emmet Re:view, and reviewed it.

Chrome functionality or extensions for responsive web testing?

Mar 13, 2019 - 6 minute read - Software Testing Evil Tester

TLDR; Chrome has built in functionality for visualising media queries

Are there any good tools for helping me with responsive testing so I can see what media queries are used in a page and then resizing to that resolution for testing?

Which is the best link checking tool?

Mar 9, 2019 - 2 minute read - Software Testing Web Development Web Testing

I was asked “Which is the best link checking tool?”. And I don’t know. But I do know that I use Total Validator Pro and a Chrome Plugin called Check My Links.

What is Software Testing And Why Do We Test Software?

Mar 6, 2019 - 7 minute read - Software Testing Evil Tester

I wanted to create a very simple, common sense overview of Software Testing. And that is what I have tried to do, in this blog post.

Are there any programming Katas related to testing?

Mar 4, 2019 - 3 minute read - Software Testing Programming

What would be suitable Code Katas for people wanting to learn how to code to support their testing?

February 2019 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary

Mar 4, 2019 - 5 minute read - Software Testing Evil Tester

TLDR; Another month of lots of content with tools, blog posts, patreon and links

How to View URL Query Parameters using Browser Dev Tools

Mar 2, 2019 - 1 minute read - Software Testing Technical Testing Web Testing Evil Tester

I was testing a system that created particularly long URLs that were hard to read because there were so many query parameters. I needed a way to fix that.

How to Write a Chrome Extension from JavaScript Snippets code

Feb 28, 2019 - 4 minute read - Evil Tester JavaScript Chrome Extension

Writing a Chrome Extension is pretty easy (getting it in the Chrome Store is much harder!). In this post I will take the snippet code I wrote to generate CounterStrings and convert it into a Chrome Extension.