What tools are in your testing stack?

What testing tools are in your current tech stack?

Are there any that are a specific requirement for your job?

What I use these days:

  • Evernote for notes,
  • Jira for tasks management/visibility/reports,
  • Dbeaver for SQL queries;
  • Apache Tinkerpop Gremlin for graph queries;
  • several AWS services for data, integration and manipulation purpose;
  • Sharepoint(MS Office) for product documentation usage; Confluence for some technical doc;
  • MS Visio & Xmind for diagrams building, for data/state flow tracing or creating functional documentation;
  • VSCode as IDE for code;
  • Git for code repository access;
  • Typescript&Playwright for Automation at UI level;
  • Postman & Javascript for Rest APIs;
  • SublimeText as text viewer/editor for most files, otherwise VSCode;
  • Python for some scripting;
  • ScreenToGif for recordings of steps to problems; Snipping tool for static screen grabs;
  • Excel for data manipulation, operations, configurations, etc…business heavy;
  • Kubectl for AWS hosted services logs checks;
  • Burpsuite - traffic intercept and modify
  • Terminal/s
  • Browsers(Firefox,Chrome, Edge, Canary)
  • Browser dev tools
  • Grammarly - for content reviews/spell-checks, basic version
  • Teams - for meetings, team collaboration
  • On a Windows laptop from 2016(not using lately VirtualBox, Ubuntu, MacOS - which seems a bit boring…)
    PS: adding as I see I’ve missed some based on the other’s responses.
  • Postman
  • Git, gitlab
  • Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP
  • SublimeText
  • Dbeaver, DB Browser for SQL lite
  • Python, PyCharm
  • ChatGPT
  • Virtual Box
  • Terminal/iTerm, Powershell, CURL
  • Activity Monitor/Task Manager :sweat_smile:
  • VNC Viewer
  • Browser Dev Tool
  • Grafana, Kibana, New Relic
  • Network Link Conditioner, NextDNS

Here is my tool stack: Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.

  • Sticky notes, for notes
  • Postman for testing APIs
  • Ubuntu via WSL, mostly for Kubernetes CLI
  • Git and BitBucket
  • Jira & Xray
  • Git Bash
  • MySQL Workbench
  • Pomodoro timer for focus sessions
  • Lightshoot for screenshot
  • VS Code
  • IntelliJ Idea
  • Google and MS Office tools
  • Bug Magnet extension for input testing
  • GifCap.dev - for recording gifs
  • Text Blaze - browser extensions for creating reusable text snippets
  • Grammarly for spellchecking
  • StayFocusd - browser extensions for restricting time spent on site you tell it
  • Slack, Google Meet, and Teams for communication
  • Obsidian: For notes
  • Lightshot: For screenshots
  • Bug magnet extension: to inject test data while testing
  • A multiple URLs extension: For opening multiple bug tickets post in channels
  • Some custom made extensions that fill forms on my company’s web app
  • VS code
  • Chatgpt
  • Postman

playwright
testomatio
vs code
sublime
github copilot
openai
slack
postman
github actions
google cloud
google docs
cleahshot
screenstudio

Bird Eats Bug

XMind

7Zip

AutoHotKey

Dropbox

Evernote

Everything

Microsoft Edge

Krisp

Telegram

Clipchamp

Loom

ScreenRec

Canva

Slack

Teams