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

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

Check out the competition

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/

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