# What tools are in your testing stack?

**URL:** <https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/what-tools-are-in-your-testing-stack/76313>\
**Category:** Discussions\
**Tags:** tools\
**Created:** [7 May 2024 14:14 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/what-tools-are-in-your-testing-stack/76313 "2024-05-07T14:14:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![rosie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/rosie/32/7719_2.png) [@rosie](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/rosie)\
**Post date:** [7 May 2024 14:14 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/what-tools-are-in-your-testing-stack/76313/1 "2024-05-07T14:14:24Z")

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What testing tools are in your current tech stack?

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

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**Author:** ![ipstefan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/ipstefan/32/8279_2.png) [@ipstefan](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/ipstefan)\
**Post date:** [7 May 2024 14:50 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/what-tools-are-in-your-testing-stack/76313/2 "2024-05-07T14:50:23Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![shad0wpuppet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/shad0wpuppet/32/13223_2.png) [@shad0wpuppet](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/shad0wpuppet)\
**Post date:** [7 May 2024 17:11 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/what-tools-are-in-your-testing-stack/76313/4 "2024-05-07T17:11:52Z")

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- 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 😅
- VNC Viewer
- Browser Dev Tool
- Grafana, Kibana, New Relic
- Network Link Conditioner, NextDNS

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**Author:** ![parwalrahul](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/parwalrahul/32/11376_2.png) [@parwalrahul](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/parwalrahul)\
**Post date:** [7 May 2024 18:42 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/what-tools-are-in-your-testing-stack/76313/5 "2024-05-07T18:42:39Z")

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Here is my tool stack: [Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.](https://ajrp.notion.site/464339d55a0a44bc8c88340e56825f92?v=0ef8c10888fd458381774dbe6ccfa2b7&pvs=4)

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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:** [8 May 2024 07:29 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/what-tools-are-in-your-testing-stack/76313/6 "2024-05-08T07:29:56Z")

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- 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

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**Author:** ![hananurrehman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/hananurrehman/32/14717_2.png) [@hananurrehman](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/hananurrehman)\
**Post date:** [8 May 2024 09:33 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/what-tools-are-in-your-testing-stack/76313/7 "2024-05-08T09:33:47Z")

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- 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

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**Author:** ![poliarush](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/poliarush/32/9542_2.png) [@poliarush](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/poliarush)\
**Post date:** [9 May 2024 08:22 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/what-tools-are-in-your-testing-stack/76313/8 "2024-05-09T08:22:54Z")

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

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**Author:** ![mahatheed](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/mahatheed/32/10871_2.png) [@mahatheed](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/mahatheed)\
**Post date:** [14 May 2024 07:45 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/what-tools-are-in-your-testing-stack/76313/9 "2024-05-14T07:45:15Z")

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Bird Eats Bug

XMind

7Zip

AutoHotKey

Dropbox

Evernote

Everything

Microsoft Edge

Krisp

Telegram

Clipchamp

Loom

ScreenRec

Canva

Slack

Teams
