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Software Testing Blog Posts covering How to Test Software, Agile Testing, Test Techniques, Technical Web and API Testing, Exploratory Testing.| www.eviltester.com
Software Testing Blog Posts covering How to Test Software, Agile Testing, Test Techniques, Technical Web and API Testing, Exploratory Testing.| www.eviltester.com
TLDR; The Deque Axe Core library works with WebDriver and Playwright to generate an automated accessibility report. Accessibility Testing Accessibility Testing is important to ensure web applications and mobile applications are usable by anyone. Countries have laws to mandate compliance. But it is a specialized skill set, so most of us don’t actually test for Accessibility we run a few tools and use that for our compliance. In this post I’ll describe a way of generating an accessibility r...| EvilTester.com on EvilTester.com - Exploratory Testing, Automation, Developme...
What is the best tool to choose for Web UI Test Automation? Is it still Selenium WebDriver? Or should you use Playwright?| www.eviltester.com
Should you have an online portfolio showcasing your skills and abilities to help get a job? It really depends on the recruitment process. But… if I’m recruiting, and you have a profile then I will have looked at it. So it better be good. Welcome to The Evil Tester Show! Covering the common question of “Should we have portfolio projects?” Alan shares his experience as both a creator and reviewer of portfolios, covering everything from the dos and don’ts of GitHub repos, to which skil...| EvilTester.com on EvilTester.com - Exploratory Testing, Automation, Developme...
TLDR; There are a lot of Software Testing Newsletters. Use this comprehensive list of curated content Newsletters as your starting point. Newsletters Overview This list of Software Testing Newsletters will contain Newsletters that collate content from multiple sources. Newsletters that review the web, blogs, YouTube, etc. and collate content relevant to the audience. If the Newsletter is from a single person or source to promote their products or services there may well be a lot of value in t...| EvilTester.com on EvilTester.com - Exploratory Testing, Automation, Developme...
Discover how respect shapes software development teams, from tester and developer roles to building a healthy, collaborative team culture.| www.eviltester.com
Details of the Software Testing and Development Conference Presentations, Tutorials and Keynotes from Alan Richardson| www.eviltester.com
Thoughts and lessons learned from years of Agile Development Consultancy and Mentoring. A Commonsense Video Guide to Agile Software Testing and Development The short video above introduces you to Agile Testing and Alan’s thoughts on how to improve. These are practical and well grounded, often commonsense answers and suggestions. Don’t BE Agile. Instead develop with Agility. Explains the principles of Agile Testing Testing is part of the software development process, we have to learn to cr...| EvilTester.com on EvilTester.com - Exploratory Testing, Automation, Developme...
A list of books that have helped me improve my Testing and thinking around testing. About A Software Testing Recommended Reading List. These are not affiliate links. Pick and choose from the list anything that seems interesting. I only recommend books which I have read, and which have actually influenced how I test, consult, manage, approach Agile Projects, and develop software. Recommended Software Testing Reading List The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World The Political Br...| EvilTester.com on EvilTester.com - Exploratory Testing, Automation, Developme...
TLDR; Can we use ChatGPT to help us learn new skills and tools? Yes. I used ChatGPT to short cut my initial steps with Playwright. Having programming knowledge really helped to ask questions and understand errors in the answers though. Learning Playwright Java With Chat GPT This video shows how I used ChatGPT to start learning Playwright with Java: Watch on YouTube Learning Playwright I’ve been a long time user of WebDriver, and that would still be my default for automating web applications...| EvilTester.com on EvilTester.com - Exploratory Testing, Automation, Developme...
How will AI impact testing and what skills do we need to develop to survive.| www.eviltester.com
TLDR; Can we use the free version of claude.ai with chat prompts to vibe code a browser based game? Yes, so long as we keep the game small. Oh, and you better save your artifacts because claude might lose your conversation details. Vibe Coding With Claude This video shows how I used Claude.ai to Vibe code a game: Watch on YouTube Vibing I’ve successfully used Code augmentation tools like co-pilot, and locally with continue.dev paired with ollama and CodeLlama. I never really felt comfortabl...| EvilTester.com on EvilTester.com - Exploratory Testing, Automation, Developme...
TLDR; Can we use the Chrome Dev Tools AI Assistance to generate code that automates an application from the Javascript console? Answer: Yes we can. Prompt to generate code, iterative amendment of prompts required. Using AI Assistance to Generate Automated Execution Code This video shows how I used the Chrome Dev Tools AI Assistance to generate code to automate a simple application from the Javascrip console: Watch on YouTube Automating From Console For years, I have written code to automate a...| EvilTester.com on EvilTester.com - Exploratory Testing, Automation, Developme...
Welcome to a new episode of The Evil Tester Show, where host Alan Richardson simplifies the over complicated world of test strategy. Drawing on years of experience creating test strategies and plans, Alan explains the real difference between strategy, approach, and plan. Explaining that what really matters isn’t following templates or writing elaborate documents, but actually thinking through problems, understanding risks, and communicating those ideas clearly. In this episode, Alan explore...| EvilTester.com on EvilTester.com - Exploratory Testing, Automation, Developme...
TLDR; There are a lot of Software Testing Podcasts. Use this comprehensive list as your startingpoint. Podcasts Overview There are almost too many Software Testing Podcasts out there. But, I try to keep up to date with industry trends and podcasts are a good way to do that. I’m only including podcasts that are released on audio and are subscribable with audio podcast software. Some of these have video as well, which I view as a bonus. I’m not including any podcast which is generated by AI...| EvilTester.com on EvilTester.com - Exploratory Testing, Automation, Developme...
NotebookLM is a free and fast way of gaining early insight into the content of YouTube Videos and other content.| www.eviltester.com
Episode list for The Evil Tester Show - A Software Testing Podcast with a different attitude| www.eviltester.com
Tips and Tricks for success with the Software Testing Job Market of 2025 from Jack Cole| www.eviltester.com
Tools do not have to be complicated, they can be simple scripts run from dev tools. This tutorial explains the writing of a CounterString tool.| www.eviltester.com
