Ask Me Anything: Technical Testing

[heather_reid]

In no particular order, some resources mentioned in tonights AMA:

Tutorial on Burp Suite Repeater and Intruder

https://dojo.ministryoftesting.com/dojo/series/the-building-blocks-of-the-internet-mark-winteringham

Tech Web Testing 101 Course - online training to improve your Web Software...

The Software Testing Pyramid

So, I read a thing recently about a Test Pyramid. It was quite long and irrelevant to my situation. I got bored and overwhelmed. This is not to say that ‘that’ Test Pyramid was useful to someone in their software testing context, but to me it wasn’t. But it gave me an idea for my own Test Pyramid. [rosiestestpyramid] It also made me wonder what other Test Pyramid things are out there. Here are some I’ve found, I’m sure there are a ton that I’m missing… https://watirmelon.blog/20…

Gáspár Nagy on software

Fiddler | Web Debugging Proxy and Troubleshooting Solutions

Burp Suite - Application Security Testing Software

https://www.getpostman.com/

SWTC London - Technical Testing - Accessibility testing

In a different format to normal, at the technical testing SWTC session this week in London the mentors ran sessions on different topics in a circus. based on the software testing clinic from last night, here are some resources on accessibility testing: Improving accessibility actually improves the experience for all users, not just those with disabilities. If you can’t read some text easily, it’s likely people with visual impairments are struggling even more so. • Disabilities can affect visi…

Accessibility Testing: Colour Blindness Accessibility

We have a few posts on the Club already about accessibility testing: and Someone recently asked on testers.chat: anybody have resources on making apps colorblind accessible? @colinmckay1 helpfully directed us to a resource shared by @rightsaidjames in his Testbash talk in Manchester 2017: Contrast ratio checker can be used to check contrast ratios against the WCAG 2.0 guidelines http://leaverou.github.io/contrast-ratio/#white-on-rgba(5%2C85%2C50%2C1) @thatdamnqa shared this which is…

Accessibility Testing Resources Needed

Hi everyone, Does anyone have a good resource for learning accessibility testing? I’m interested in adding it to my skill set and would love to know if there’s a resource that someone found valuable.

https://wave.webaim.org/

Automation in Testing

The second AMA shout out for this one:

Risk Based Software Testing Resources

Someone recently asked on the Ministry of Testing Slack: does anyone have any recommended resources for risk-based testing? @berenvd kindly shared this blog post from @marcel about using TestSphere to map risks. When I searched the Dojo for “risk”, “Risk Based Testing Because You Can’t Do EVERYTHING” by @jennydoesthings at TestBash Philly is the top hit https://dojo.ministryoftesting.com/lessons/risk-based-testing-because-you-can-t-do-everything-jenny-bramble?s_id=5733 Followed by “How …

Beware the Integrated Tests Scam (was Integrated Tests Are a Scam)

Mike Clark

I’ve surely missed some, please do add to this