Three Recommended Paid Software Testing Online Courses

Free online courses are nice, but some paid ones are just better at delivering value especially when instructors take a lot of care about building the best possible content they can provide to their audience. Free is always an option, but the problem with free is that we don’t necessarily have to give anything back in return for a service. We can do nothing and that’s okay. With paid courses however I find myself to be more motivated to take in everything I can. I focus more and I believe that helps me learn better.

Here are three recommended paid software testing courses I’ve taken recently, from which I’ve learned a great deal:

Technical Web Testing 101 (by Alan Richardson)
Let’s Code Test-Driven Javascript (by James Shore)
Web Hacking: Become a Web Pentester (by Gergely Revay)

Five People and Their Thoughts (Part 4)

Many of the things I’ve learned about software testing in recent years I discovered through reading books and blogs of actual software testers who are masters of their own craft. Some of them record videos too, of tutorials and webinars and anything they find valuable for their readers/viewers, and I try to share those which I’ve found engaging, five at a time.

Here are some interesting recordings to view today, if you’d like:

How to upgrade to Selenium 3 WebDriver, MarionetteDriver and older versions with the FirefoxDriver (by Alan Richardson, a straightforward guide about upgrading existing Java automated checks to version 3 of the Selenium WebDriver)
Estimates or No Estimates? (by James Shore, about estimation and answering the more important questions of when and why should we or should we not use it)
Dave Haeffner’s Proven Method to Grading Selenium Tests (by Dave Haeffner, who introduces a way of reviewing and grading automated checks according to general ideas of what makes tests good or bad)
AppSec Awareness – A Blueprint for Security Culture Change (by Chris Romeo, about building awareness of application security testing in an organization)
Quit Social Media (by Cal Newport, about social media and living a life without it)

Five People and Their Thoughts (Part 3)

There’s always something new to learn, and these days watching webinars and recorded conference videos are good ways of finding and sharing interesting content about what practices do other people think is important in software testing. Lately I am finding myself getting more curious about performance and security testing, as well as the idea of software (including test code) as specification.

Some engaging thoughts about those topics, if you’re interested:

Find the Right Abstraction Level for Your Tests (by Gerard Meszaros, about the practice of writing automated checks with intent and expressiveness)
Agile Engineering for the Web (by James Shore, on how to write unit tests for javascript and cascading style sheets, and how test-driven development and refactoring helps adaptive planning)
Tales of a Bug Bounty Hunter – 10 Interesting Vulnerabilities (by Arne Swinnen, on his experience of hunting security bugs in Instagram)
How to Build Performance Testing into your CI Pipeline (by Adam Taylor & Refael Botbol, on how to write Taurus performance tests and integrating these checks to Jenkins)
Burp Suite Basics for Software Testing (by Alan Richardson, about using Burp Suite to understand more about the application under test especially security risks)

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Three Recommended Paid Software Testing Online Courses

Five People and Their Thoughts (Part 3)