# Testing Ask Me Anything - Testing Tools with Mirza Sisic **URL:** \ **Category:** šŸ—“ļø Events\ **Tags:** tools, ask-me-anything, career-development, 30-days-of-tools\ **Created:** [5 October 2021 11:53 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/testing-ask-me-anything-testing-tools-with-mirza-sisic/53847 "2021-10-05T11:53:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![simon\_tomes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/simon_tomes/32/14009_2.png) [@simon\_tomes](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/simon_tomes)\ **Post date:** [5 October 2021 11:53 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/testing-ask-me-anything-testing-tools-with-mirza-sisic/53847/1 "2021-10-05T11:53:16Z")
Later today @testerfromleic hosts an [Ask Me Anything](https://www.ministryoftesting.com/events/testing-ask-me-anything-testing-tools-with-mirza-sisic) with the brilliant @mirza, on Testing Tools. Theyā€™ll be an excellent set of questions and typically we wonā€™t get time for them to be answered. However, weā€™ll add any questions we didnā€™t get to on this thread for Mirza to answer. Plus Iā€™ll share links to all the things shared. :ninja_green: And feel free to continue the conversation, this thread is an excellent place to do that. Share resources and follow up with success stories from your learnings! šŸ† A recording of the Ask Me Anything will be made available. Look out for it on [the Ask Me Anything Page](https://www.ministryoftesting.com/ask-me-anythings) in the coming days. šŸŽ„ ---
**Author:** ![simon\_tomes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/simon_tomes/32/14009_2.png) [@simon\_tomes](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/simon_tomes)\ **Post date:** [5 October 2021 20:10 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/testing-ask-me-anything-testing-tools-with-mirza-sisic/53847/2 "2021-10-05T20:10:41Z")
## Questions marked as answered - Is it good to use/learn paid testing tools- Or is always better to get experience in open source -is a best option ? - How you do you convince those in and outside of your team that we should use [this tool]? - Do you know if there are any popular low-code/no-code open-source projects being worked on by the community? Worried about the vendor lock-in when committing to using such commericial platforms/tools - Best tool to automate testing UI on a Windows Desktop application. - What tool a tester should never ever learn? šŸ˜‰ - What is the best resource to quickly learn Selenium? - What are some of the criteria you use when you evaluate tools? - What are your favorite non-automation tools? For example, for accessibility or localization testing? - Do you use additional tools to create test data? - Which testing tools would you suggest learning at the beginning of QA career? - What did you once try with a tool that you now look back on and it makes you cringe? - Talking about the solid process in your current company - any good test management tools/books/courses or methods you could recommend for a software testing pipeline? - How to choose a tool? My favorite technique for choosing a tool is a weighted decision matrix. Get demos to populate the data. - If interviewing tool testerswhat skills /behaviours do you look for? - Is the ISTQB certificate worth the effort and money ? - Do see a convergence in tooling? e.g. everyone using the same tools for UI automation, perf testing, assertion matchers etc. - Is there a question regarding testing tools you wished someone had asked, but hasnā€™t yet? - How much coding knowledge is required for an automation position? - Have you tried Model based testing? If so, any tool recommendations to implement this kind of testing? - Do you have experience in the implementation of a BBD framework? 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**Author:** ![mirza](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/mirza/32/9965_2.png) [@mirza](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/mirza)\ **Post date:** [6 October 2021 09:23 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/testing-ask-me-anything-testing-tools-with-mirza-sisic/53847/3 "2021-10-06T09:23:38Z")
> [@simon\_tomes](#): > > - Any tips for reviewing new tools ? Iā€™d do some research on the tool, first off to see how easy it is to get started with the tool: - How good is the official documentation - Does the tool have an active community of users - How long the tool has been around - Ask for opinions from your team members - this can also provide you with useful insight - Try to find people how used the tool already and talk to them - Analyse your needs (and the needs of your project) to see if the tool meets those needs - Does it integrate well with existing tools - if this is required - Trial and error - you learn the most about a tool by trying it on in action. Use it to try to solve a real-time problem you are having at work > [@simon\_tomes](#): > > - Any tool suggestions for database automation testing? In companies Iā€™ve worked in so far the DB testing was done by the DB Admins and/or the DevOps teams. However, I was always curious about that kind of testing and Iā€™ve done research in the past - just in case someone in the future asks me to preform testing on a database. The xUnit family of testing frameworks has extensions for doing database testing - for example JUnit has the [DbUnit](https://www.dbunit.org/) extension which can be used for testing relations databases using Java. Microsoft ([SQL Server](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/sql/sql-server-data-tools/jj851206(v=vs.103)?redirectedfrom=MSDN)) and Oracle ([Oracle SQL Developer](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/sql-developer/overview/index.html)) also have DB testing functionality built into their tools. For no-tabular databases, like Mongo, there is [NoSQLUnit](https://github.com/lordofthejars/nosql-unit) which also relies on JUnit. There are plenty of other DB testing tools to take a look at, [hereā€™s a handy article on that topic](https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/tools/40-best-database-testing-tools/). There were a few questions in the AMA which I wanted to get back to and add a few more details to my answers, Iā€™ll do that once the recording is available.