Quality Assurance

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

2019 QA Blog Postings

Date	Title	Teaser
Dec 02, 2019	GodFather Quotes	Transforming a couple of GodFather quotes to QA
Nov 25, 2019	IBM - You Make the Call	A better graphic for the classic commercial
Nov 18, 2019	GitHub Tips for QA	Some cool tips on using GitHub
Nov 11, 2019	Mandela Effect	How does the Mandela Effect impact QA?
Nov 04, 2019	Best Screen Capture Tool for Chrome	What is the best screen capture tool for Chrome?
Oct 28, 2019	Purpose of Smoke Testing	Things to Think About when putting together a Smoke Test plan
Oct 21, 2019	What is Testing?	The Meaning of testings
Oct 14, 2019	Best QA Advice	Some good advice that I have gotten over the years
Oct 07, 2019	QA Off Cycle Duties	Manual Testing Off Cycle Tasks
Sep 30, 2019	Red Herring in Test	Learn how Red Herring in Test can be distracting
Sep 23, 2019	QA Manager Task List	Things a QA Manager should do
Sep 16, 2019	CASL Testing	Configure your browser to test CASL warnings.
Sep 09, 2019	Couple of Console Tricks	Some Tips on using the Console in Chrome
Sep 02, 2019	Letter to the QA Manager	Sample letter to the QA Manager
Aug 26, 2019	Fake Referer for Testing	curl is a great tool for QA
Aug 19, 2019	Location Guard	Good Extension to fake the location of your browser.
Aug 12, 2019	QA is not Medical Science	Should QA Focus on
Aug 05, 2019	False Positive	False Positive is scary in QA Testing
Jul 29, 2019	QA Memes	Some QA Graphics for release deployment.
Jul 22, 2019	Test Strategy	Fundamentals of a Test Strategy document
Jul 15, 2019	Test Plan Guidlines	Fundamentals of what makes a good quality test plan
Jul 08, 2019	False Negative	Understanding how False Negatives can occur
Jul 01, 2019	Best Cheap Beer Social Event	Good Social Event with the Engineer and QA Teams
Jun 24, 2019	Dynamic Bookmarklets	You can create Dynamic Bookmarklets
Jun 17, 2019	Engineering Liability of Code	When does Engineering stop ownership
Jun 10, 2019	Incognito Filter	Easily create Bookmarks to open up incognito mode.
Jun 03, 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	What happens when things do not go through QA
May 13, 2019	QA Testing (International)	Some International QA misses
May 06, 2019	xPath Browser Wars	Not All Xpaths are the same
Mar 25, 2019	Adobe Flash	Adobe Flash going away
Mar 18, 2019	Jira new Comment Field	Jira is now using Markdown for Comments
Mar 11, 2019	Page Ruler Redux	Cool tool to get the actual size of objects on a page.
Mar 04, 2019	Fun with Animated Gifs	A couple of GIFs for QA
Feb 25, 2019	Blue Button	Useful Chrome Extension to help debug a website.
Feb 18, 2019	World Quality Report	Learn all about the World-Wide trends in qa testing in the Capgemini document
Feb 11, 2019	Slack Tips for QA	Some useful tips/tricks on using Slack for the QA team
Feb 04, 2019	What Wikipedia Can Not Tell You About Test Link	Some TestLink Annoyances

2018 QA Blog Postings

Date	Title	Teaser
Dec 31, 2018	Best QA Posts of 2018	Discover what QA posts were the most useful in 2018
Nov 26, 2018	Bashrc Configurations for QA	Some useful Bashrc tips and tricks.
Nov 19, 2018	Copy CSS Selector	Great tool for anyone writing web automation
Nov 12, 2018	Check My Links	Great Chrome Extension to see if there is any broken links on the current page
Nov 05, 2018	QA October Graphic Files	Assorted collection of QA Meme files from October
Oct 29, 2018	Picture in Picture in Chrome	Cool Feature now available in Chrome
Oct 22, 2018	Slack Reminders	Simple Reminders to setup in Slack
Oct 15, 2018	Firefox JavaScript Scratchpad	Useful tool to test JavaScript code, and to test websites
Oct 08, 2018	Framed! Browser Extension	Cool Browser extension to alert you when your in Production
Oct 01, 2018	New QA Images	Various QA Images
Sep 24, 2018	Jira Sprint Board Keyboard Shortcut	Easy way to switch between board views
Sep 17, 2018	Hide That Bookmark Bar	Learn the Basic of hiding the bookmark bar
Sep 10, 2018	10 Tips for Effective Testing with Deadlines	Just some things to think about when start testing a big project
Sep 03, 2018	Strong Password Generator	Cool Secure Password Generator
Aug 27, 2018	New QA Graphic Files	Six new Graphic files added to the Image repository
Aug 20, 2018	Browser Calories	Great way to see how your public site is performing.
Aug 13, 2018	CodeCopy	Use CodeCopy to quickly copy code from popular websites
Aug 06, 2018	Browser Badge Bookmarketlet	Quickly add a browser banner to identify the browser.
Jul 30, 2018	Test Pilot in Firefox	Test Firefox latest features before they go live
Jul 23, 2018	Easy way to explain bug steps	Use Mac Explainer to explain steps
Jul 16, 2018	PostgreSQL Quick Cheat Sheet	Common MySQL commands in PostgreSQL
Jul 09, 2018	July QA Graphics	Some of the latest graphics added to the collection
Jul 02, 2018	Jira Short cuts for QA	Cool tip on using Jira faster
Jun 25, 2018	Quick Editor	Bookmarklet to add a quick editor
Jun 18, 2018	Chrome Throttling	Slow down your Internet for Race Condition Testing
Jun 11, 2018	Panoramic Capture in Snagit	Panoramic website captures flexibility in Snagit.
Jun 04, 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 07, 2018	Vivaldi Browser	Vivaldi has some pretty cool tools for QA
Apr 30, 2018	Zero Downtime in QA	Is there any real downtime in QA?
Apr 23, 2018	Test Case Repository	What makes a Test Case Repository good
Apr 16, 2018	Negative Test Cases	How Many Negative Test Cases do you have
Apr 09, 2018	Happy Path Testing	Happy Path testing can lead to the best Test Cases
Apr 02, 2018	BrowserStack Screenshot	Get awesome websites screenshots in different platforms.
Mar 26, 2018	QA Meme Pictures update	Great MEME pictures for QA
Mar 19, 2018	5 Ways To Win At Mobile Application Testing	Better Strategies means better results
Mar 12, 2018	Browser Extensions for QA	Popular
Mar 05, 2018	Google Testing Blog	Learn QA Styles from Google
Feb 26, 2018	Opera and Maxthon	Opera and Maxthon good testing browsers
Feb 19, 2018	Chrome Window Resizer	Great Tool for QA to capture current screen information
Feb 12, 2018	Postmortem Document	Handy document to get the postmortem conversation started
Feb 05, 2018	SQL Mate	SQL Mate makes data entry into TestLink easy
Jan 29, 2018	QA Style Sheet	Fastest way for QA to validate any CSS file
Jan 22, 2018	BugMagnet	Great browser extension for exploratory testing
Jan 15, 2018	Throw Away Email Accounts	Useful Web Services to test Email Functionality
Jan 08, 2018	UFO Quadcopter Instructions	Bad UFO Quadcopter Instructions
Jan 01, 2018	Slack Emoji Icons for QA	Small collection of Emoji Icons for QA