Tools

TLDR; Total Validator Pro will spider a site and check its HTML as well as links. Free version works 1 page at a time. 30 GBP for the pro version.

TLDR; I automate tasks by using tools and writing code. Understand what they abstract to learn more.

Some applications provide an API. Some websites provide an API. This post provides some information on API testing, since that appears to have consume a lot of my time in January 2015.

Creating a local http server.

Those of us that have worked with computers for most of our lives, take the command line for granted. We know it exists, we know basically how to use it, and we know how to find the commands we need even if we can’t remember them.

My install of VirtualBox prompted me to update today. And I realised that I hadn’t written much about VirtualBox, and I find any videos I had created about it.

Which surprised me since I use Virtual Machines. A lot.

I looked at my mobile testing options and I realised that I didn’t have a full toolbox to help me. Particularly in terms of screen recording.

I seem to default to WinMerge for my file and directory comparisons.

I use the free community edition of Burp Suite in my work.

Burp Suite is an HTTP Proxy which allows me to Observe, Interrogate and Manipulate HTTP Messages.

NOTE: Samurize does not appear to be maintained any more. A possible alternative is Rainmeter