How to thrive as a Tester - Support Page

Welcome to the supporting page for my book “How To Thrive As A Web Tester”.

On this page you will find extra resources and guides to help you in your journey as a Web Tester.

If you don’t already have a copy of the book you can grab it below.

You can buy the book on Amazon UK, US, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Japan, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Australia, India. (All in English. No translations available).

Without further-a-do – here are the extra bits.

Workshop Activities

(This section is for the associated thriving as a web tester workshop. Links and goodies below this section)

Slides from Web Testing Basics / Effective Tester are here –> Web Testing Basics Handout

Submitting to conferences

Here is a Blazingly Simple Guide for submitting to conferences.

A mega list of conferences on Testing conferences website

Other awesome testers

• Testers on Twitter list at Testing Circus.
• Ministry of Testing Feeds.
• 125 Testers to keep your eye on.
• Big list of resources by Huib Schoots.
• Resources from Keith Klain

Favourite music for testing

• Hybrid – Wider Angle
• Red Snapper – Reeled and Skinned
• Jimmy Smith – Home Cookin
• Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue
• People Under The Stairs – Question In The Form Of An Answer
• Nightmares on Wax – Smoker’s Delight
• Red Snapper – Prince Blimey

Accessibility Checking

• Firefox accessibility extension – http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/accessibility
• Wave web accessibility checker – http://wave.webaim.org/
• Web accessibility checker – http://achecker.ca/checker/index.php
• Test Partners accessibility testing – http://www.testpartners.co.uk/accessibility_testing.htm

Cross Browser Testing

• Browserstack – https://www.browserstack.com/
• Smart Bear – https://crossbrowsertesting.com/
• Sauce labs – https://saucelabs.com/
• Browser Shots – http://browsershots.org/
• The W3 checker is a good standards checker – http://seleniumhq.org/
• Compatibility Mode page on Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibility_mode_(software)
• Testing Bot – http://testingbot.com/
• Browsers and Rendering Engines – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser_engine
• Brave Browser – https://brave.com/
• Google Analytics (web analytics)
• NewRelic (advanced app analytics)

Browser Extensions

• Selenium IDE – http://seleniumhq.org/projects/ide/
• IE Tab – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419
• Fire sizer – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5792
• Clear Cache – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1801
• Copy Plain Text – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/134
• Download Status – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/26
• XMarks – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2410
• W3C Page Validator – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2250
• Pencil – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8487
• SQL Injection – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6727
• Quick Restart – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3559
• Firebug alternatives –https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2077
• Quick Locale Switcher – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1333
• Http Fox – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6647
• TAW3 – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1158?src=api
• Firefox Accessibility Tools – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5809?src=api
• Chrome extensions
• Opera extensions
• Safari extensions
• Cool hacks to Firefox like making it quicker
• Here’s some more on quicksoftwaretesting.com

Security Tools

• Good security for web checklist – http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/security/ensure-basic-web-site-security-with-this-checklist/424
• Differences between http and https – https://www.theproblemsite.com/ask/2016/02/http-vs-https-difference
• Burpsuite – http://portswigger.net/burp/
• Charles Proxy – http://www.charlesproxy.com
• Fiddler – http://www.telerik.com/fiddler
• Zed Attack Proxy – https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Zed_Attack_Proxy_Project
• Web Hackers book – On Amazon.co.uk (affiliate link – see here for more on my affiliate policy)
• OWASP Top Ten – https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Ten_Project
• Plynt Security Testing Experts – http://www.plynt.com/

Link Checking Tools

• Xenu Link Checker – http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
• W3C Checker – http://www.brokenlinkcheck.com/

Load Testing

• A list of testing tools on Wikipedia
• jMeter
• Blaze Meter

Tab Order

• Tabbing in HTML guidelines – http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.11.1
• Web Aim guide to changing tab orders – http://webaim.org/techniques/keyboard/tabindex

Web Service Testing

• SOAP UI
• Postman

Check out the competition

• http://curioustester.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/claims-testing.html
• http://www.bettertesting.co.uk/content/?p=613

Cookies

• Good site about cookies and sessions – http://www.allaboutcookies.org
• Session Hijacking – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_hijacking
• Security implications of cookies – http://portswigger.net/burp/
• Fiddler – http://www.telerik.com/fiddler
• Firecookie – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/firecookie/

Automating Tediousness

• SQLYog Tool – http://www.webyog.com/en/downloads.php
• SQL Learning at W3 Schools – http://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp
• Selenium Debugging – http://seleniumhq.org/docs/02_selenium_ide.html#debugging
• Selenium – http://seleniumhq.org/

Going Back To The Beginning Again

• Stack Overflow question on disabling back capability

View The Source

• Andréas Prins article on Hidden Treasures – http://www.ministryoftesting.com/2010/12/hidden-treasures-for-everyone/
• Firefox Extension to visualise page source – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/view-source-chart/

Resize and Resolution

• A monster list of emulators
• Firefox window resizer extension – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/window-resizer/

Disable CSS

• W3C standards and advice for CSS – http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
• Firebug Firefox Extension – http://getfirebug.com/
• Web Developer Add-One – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/web-developer/

Disable JavaScript

• NoScript explained – https://blog.axosoft.com/feedback-loops-agile-development/
• https://www.testingexcellence.com/acceptance-testing-agile/

Mobile Emulator

• A monster list of emulators
• Android Emulators-for-pc-655308/
• Opera Mobile Emulatools/mobile/
• iPhone Emulator – http://www.marketcircle.com/iphoney/
• Evernote – www.evernote.com
• Mobile Phone Spec Testing – http://mobiphonespec.com/

Race Conditions

• Race Conditions (Wikipedia) – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_condition
• Selenium – http://seleniumhq.org/

Testing In-Situ

• In Situ on Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_situ
• Blatant self-promotion link to my old blog site – Social Tester site – http://thesocialtester.co.uk/theres-method-in-the-madness/

Managing Add-Ons

• How to manage add-ons across multiple machines – http://lifehacker.com/272113/sync-your-firefox-extensions-and-profiles-across-computers

Shortcuts

• Windows shortcut keys – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/126449
• MAC shortcut keys  – http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343
• Linux shortcut keys – http://linux.about.com/od/linux101/l/blnewbie5_1.htm

Throttle Bandwidth

• https://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Blog/G-H-E-3G-and-LTE-Making-sense-of-cell-network-alphabet-soup/ba-p/10735263
• Charles Proxy – http://www.charlesproxy.com
• Fiddler – http://www.telerik.com/fiddler
• Select “Responsive Design Mode” in Firefox Dev Tools – and then change the speed at the top

Blink Testing

• James Bach’s article on Blink Testing – http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/33
• Desktop screen reading software – http://camstudio.org/

Locale

• Quick Locale switching extension – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/quick-locale-switcher/
• Changing Windows language – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144258.aspx
• Changing MAC Language – https://appsliced.co/ask/how-do-i-change-the-language-of-my-mac

UX

• UX on Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_experience_design
• UX Booth – http://www.uxbooth.com/
• UX Mag – http://uxmag.com/

Block Pop-Ups

• Chrome Pop-up blocker information
• Ad Block blocker