
exploratory testing
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Explore It? Explore It!
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Advice for the New Tester
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Exploratory Testing Explained - Detailed article on Exploratory Testing by James Bach
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Introduction to Rapid Software Testing Course - Video with James Bach
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Test Cases are Not Testing: Toward a Performance Culture - Video with James Bach Butch asks James a question
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Breaking the Test Case Addition Blog Series by Michael Bolton - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 -Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8
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All Roads Lead to Exploratory Testing - by Alex Schladebeck
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Explore It! - Book - By Elisabeth Hendrickson
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Three Digestible Diagrams to Describe Exploratory Testing - by Simon Tomes
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A Heuristic Approach to Test Charters - by Adam Howard
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Software Testing Heuristics: Overview - by Richard Bradshaw and Sarah Deery
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Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet - 2 page sheet put together by Elisabeth Hendrickson
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Questions to ask during a Session Debrief - by Marcus Gartner
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An Exploratory Tester’s Notebook - A guide to using a physical notebook when doing exploratory testing by Michael Bolton
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Experiments to improve your Exploratory Testing Note Taking - by Alan Richardson
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Exploratory Testing (ET) -What, When, Why and How - by Iryna Suprun
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Live Web Exploratory Testing Session - Exploratory Testing modelled and recorded by Alan Richardson
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Explore Galore! 30 Tips to Supercharge your Exploratory Testing Efforts - by Simon Tomes
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Why I’m Talking to Developers about Exploratory Testing - by Callum Akehurst-Ryan
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Testing Quality and My Inability to Teach - by Patrick Prill
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How to measure exploratory testing - by Rafaela Azevedo
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Test Strategy Templates - by Rafaela Azevedo
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Automation & Exploratory Testing - A symbiotic relationship - by Gareth Waterhouse
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What Does Testing Look Like Without Test Cases? - by Kim Engel
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Software Test Planning Worksheet - useful for ideas
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Modern Testing Principles
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Testing like the TSA - Great follow-up comments
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The Archaeology of Testing
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Complete the Main Quest First
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Testing isn’t just about acceptance criteria
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If a test falls in a forest…
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One way to introduce exploratory testing to your team
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James Lynsday: There are Plenty of Ways to Manage Exploratory Testing
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Why Checking Acceptance Criteria Isn’t Enough
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Feature Chat Sheet - Thanks Agile Testing Fellowship!
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7 Types of Test Strategy
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Web Testing with Chrome Dev Tools
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Good Tests VS Bad Tests
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Exploratory Testing Faq
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Definition of Ready
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Testing on a Platform Team
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The Defect Expiration Date
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Teaching Exploratory Testing with Code
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Testing In Production, The Netflix Way
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We need to talk about testing
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A Journey in Test Engineering Leadership: Applying Session-Based Test Management
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Moving into “Modern Test Leadership”
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High Tech - Low Test or Problems with Testing
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Software Bugs that Caused Real Harm
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Do’s and Dont’s of Exploratory Testing
big lists
API testing
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Postman Tricks and Tips - This public collection contains Postman Tricks and Tips about how to achieve some tricky postman use cases.
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Exploratory Testing an API - by Maaret Pyhäjärvi
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CATS API Automation - Based on OpenAPI spec
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API Tokens: A Tedious Survey - API Security and Authentication methods
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JSON Placeholder - Free fake and reliable API for testing and prototyping.
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Any API - Documentation and Test Consoles for over 1400 public API’s
test Automation
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Postman Tricks and Tips - This public collection contains Postman Tricks and Tips about how to achieve some tricky postman use cases.
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Exploratory Testing an API - by Maaret Pyhäjärvi
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CATS API Automation - Based on OpenAPI spec
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API Tokens: A Tedious Survey - API Security and Authentication methods
test automation locators
General technology
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How Complex Systems Fail - Being a Short Treatise on the Nature of Failure; How Failure is Evaluated; How Failure is Attributed to Proximate Cause; and the Resulting New Understanding of Patient Safety
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Why Every Software Developer Needs to Learn Chaos Engineering
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Deep Dive: Testing a Microservice Architecture with QA Environments
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Continuous Integration and Feature Branching - by Dave Farley. I don’t agree with everythhing in this article but it has been helpful in expanding the way I think about branching and merging.
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Testing Strategy for DevOps - Testing in Production
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Project Guidelines - great resource for great practices, and can be used to get teams on the same page.
agile
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Retrospective Plans - Collection of Retrospective ideas.
Security in testing
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But I’m Not A Security Tester! Security Testing On The Web For The Rest Of Us - Kate Paulk
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OWASP Juice Shop - probably the most modern and sophisticated insecure web application + Map/Guide
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Hacksplaining - explains common web application vulnerabilities and exploits
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Big List of Naughty Strings - a big list of strings used to test vulnerabilities
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XSS Payload List - big list of XSS payloads
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Tryhackme - an online learning platform that teaches you about all things cybersecurity through gamified activities
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OWASP API Security Project - API Security focuses on strategies and solutions to understand and mitigate the unique vulnerabilities and security risks of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
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Starter pack on Penetration/Security Testing for newbies - I am putting together a table a learning goals and resources that i hope will help Testers start out on their journey in Pen Testing .
Courses, learning paths
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Docker for Testers - Self paced workshop on learning the ins and outs of docker.
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Docker Build: A Beginner’s Guide to Building Docker Images - Focusses on a container for a application build.
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Tester’s Playground - This includes challenges for Chrome DevTools, OWASP, and Accessibility.
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Wizardzines Mystery Tour - Site, currently 4 technology challenges to make you smarter.
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Learn Browser Testing - End to end testing and browser automation. By Umaar
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Down and Dirty With Chrome Dev Tools - A site put together to walk through many of the browser dev tools in chrome browser. this site hasn’t been updated recently but still provides a ton of value.
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DevTools Javascript Snippets - Helpful javascript snippets.
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67 Weird Chrome Dev Tools Debugging Tricks Your Browser Doesn’t Want You to Know
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Javascript Questions - an exercise/quiz in vanilla javascript.
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SQL Zoo - Interactive exercises to practice SQL.
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Code Wars - Community created coding katas in lots of different languages.
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OWASP Juice Shop - probably the most modern and sophisticated insecure web application + Map/Guide
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BBST Foundations - Free content from older presentations. New courses offered here
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Learning Pathways - Created by Katrina Clokie
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bbst.courses - Paid courses but helpful to new testers.
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API Challenges - 39 challenges to test your API knowledge.
Video courses
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Automating in the Browser Using JavaScript - A video tutorial by Alan Richardson on using javascript in testing.