Quality Assurance

Various Tools and Techniques to help QA Engineers test web applications better.

2019 QA Blog Postings

Date	Title	Teaser
August 19, 2019	Location Guard	Good Extension to fake the location of your browser.
August 12, 2019	QA is not Medical Science	Should QA Focus on
August 5, 2019	False Positive	False Positive is scary in QA Testing
July 29, 2019	QA Memes	Some QA Graphics for release deployment.
July 22, 2019	Test Strategy	Fundamentals of a Test Strategy document
July 15, 2019	Test Plan Guidlines	Fundamentals of what makes a good quality test plan
July 8, 2019	False Negative	Understanding how False Negatives can occur
July 1, 2019	Best Cheap Beer Social Event	Good Social Event with the Engineer and QA Teams
June 24, 2019	Dynamic Bookmarklets	You can create Dynamic Bookmarklets
June 17, 2019	Engineering Liability of Code	When does Engineering stop ownership
June 10, 2019	Incognito Filter	Easily create Bookmarks to open up incognito mode.
June 3, 2019	Broken Windows	How the Broken Window Theory applies to QA Testing
May 27, 2019	Browser Cookie Size	Know the Browser Cookie Size.
May 20, 2019	Massachusetts QA Fails
May 13, 2019	QA Testing (International)	Some International QA misses
May 6, 2019	xPath Browser Wars	Not All Xpaths are the same
March 25, 2019	Adobe Flash	Adobe Flash going away
March 18, 2019	Jira new Comment Field	Jira is now using Markdown for Comments
March 11, 2019	Page Ruler Redux	Cool tool to get the actual size of objects on a page.
March 4, 2019	Fun with Animated Gifs	A couple of GIFs for QA
February 25, 2019	Blue Button	Useful Chrome Extension to help debug a website.
February 18, 2019	World Quality Report	Learn all about the World-Wide trends in qa testing in the Capgemini document
February 11, 2019	Slack Tips for QA	Some useful tips/tricks on using Slack for the QA team
February 4, 2019	What Wikipedia Can Not Tell You About Test Link	Some TestLink Annoyances

2018 QA Blog Postings

Date	Title	Teaser
December 31, 2018	Best QA Posts of 2018	Discover what QA posts were the most useful in 2018
November 26, 2018	Bashrc Configurations for QA	Some useful Bashrc tips and tricks.
November 19, 2018	Copy CSS Selector	Great tool for anyone writing web automation
November 12, 2018	Check My Links	Great Chrome Extension to see if there is any broken links on the current page
November 5, 2018	QA October Graphic Files	Assorted collection of QA Meme files from October
October 29, 2018	Picture in Picture in Chrome	Cool Feature now available in Chrome
October 22, 2018	Slack Reminders	Simple Reminders to setup in Slack
October 15, 2018	Firefox JavaScript Scratchpad	Useful tool to test JavaScript code, and to test websites
October 8, 2018	Framed! Browser Extension	Cool Browser extension to alert you when your in Production
October 1, 2018	New QA Images	Various QA Images
September 24, 2018	Jira Sprint Board Keyboard Shortcut	Easy way to switch between board views
September 17, 2018	Hide That Bookmark Bar	Learn the Basic of hiding the bookmark bar
September 10, 2018	10 Tips for Effective Testing with Deadlines	Just some things to think about when start testing a big project
September 3, 2018	Strong Password Generator	Cool Secure Password Generator
August 27, 2018	New QA Graphic Files	Six new Graphic files added to the Image repository
August 20, 2018	Browser Calories	Great way to see how your public site is performing.
August 13, 2018	CodeCopy	Use CodeCopy to quickly copy code from popular websites
August 6, 2018	Browser Badge Bookmarketlet	Quickly add a browser banner to identify the browser.
July 30, 2018	Test Pilot in Firefox	Test Firefox latest features before they go live
July 23, 2018	Easy way to explain bug steps	Use Mac Explainer to explain steps
July 16, 2018	PostgreSQL Quick Cheat Sheet	Common MySQL commands in PostgreSQL
July 9, 2018	July QA Graphics	Some of the latest graphics added to the collection
July 2, 2018	Jira Short cuts for QA	Cool tip on using Jira faster
June 25, 2018	Quick Editor	Bookmarklet to add a quick editor
June 18, 2018	Chrome Throttling	Slow down your Internet for Race Condition Testing
June 11, 2018	Panoramic Capture in Snagit	Panoramic website captures flexibility in Snagit.
June 4, 2018	Adding Alternative Search Engines to Chrome	Be more Productive by Adding additional Search Engines to Chrome
May 28, 2018	crontab.guru	Learn how to write good Cron Syntax
May 21, 2018	EditThisCookie	EditThisCookie is a powerful browser cookie manager.
May 14, 2018	Chrome Profiles vs Icognito Mode	Setup a Chrome Profile for different environments that you manage.
May 7, 2018	Vivaldi Browser	Vivaldi has some pretty cool tools for QA
April 30, 2018	Zero Downtime in QA	Is there any real downtime in QA?
April 23, 2018	Test Case Repository	What makes a Test Case Repository good
April 16, 2018	Negative Test Cases	How Many Negative Test Cases do you have
April 9, 2018	Happy Path Testing	Happy Path testing can lead to the best Test Cases
April 2, 2018	BrowserStack Screenshot	Get awesome websites screenshots in different platforms.
March 26, 2018	QA Meme Pictures update	Great MEME pictures for QA
March 19, 2018	5 Ways To Win At Mobile Application Testing	Better Strategies means better results
March 12, 2018	Browser Extensions for QA	Popular
March 5, 2018	Google Testing Blog	Learn QA Styles from Google
February 26, 2018	Opera and Maxthon	Opera and Maxthon good testing browsers
February 19, 2018	Chrome Window Resizer	Great Tool for QA to capture current screen information
February 12, 2018	Postmortem Document	Handy document to get the postmortem conversation started
February 5, 2018	SQL Mate	SQL Mate makes data entry into TestLink easy
January 29, 2018	QA Style Sheet	Fastest way for QA to validate any CSS file
January 22, 2018	BugMagnet	Great browser extension for exploratory testing
January 15, 2018	Throw Away Email Accounts	Useful Web Services to test Email Functionality
January 8, 2018	UFO Quadcopter Instructions	Bad UFO Quadcopter Instructions
January 1, 2018	Slack Emoji Icons for QA	Small collection of Emoji Icons for QA