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Testing Environments

This is the place to put links to all of your testing environments

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Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Mac Safari ALL Browsers
View Screenshots of your site in Safari Browsershots (view your site in multiple browsers)
Useful Browser compatibility Resource!

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Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
Mac Safari

QA Tools & TestData

Manage Release Tools Information Tools Merchant Info/Data Tools Testing Data Monitoring Tools
Bug Report Template Test Addresses by Us & International Regions
Developer Release Notes Valid US Cities and Zip Codes
Area Code Listings
Characters length to use for boundary testing
Test Credit Cards
Good Info on Test Credit Card #s
Need a UPC?
Bank Routing Numbers
Fed Wire Directory(Routing Numbers Source)
Domain Suffixes
Internet Top Level Domains
IDN/Punycode Converter
Domain Extensions for International Countries
Special Characters (ascii & html codes)

Create Requirements & Functional Spec Documentation

Requirements Documentation Functional Specification Documentation
Functional Spec Tutorial::What and Why

Defect Reports

Place links to your various defect reports here. For example, you could have a link of:

a. all defects assigned in your name
b. all defects assigned to QA
c. all defects of a particular release
d. all defects assigned to your subordinates
e. all defects of a particular part of the project (maybe hot topics)
f. etc...

Organize your links in ways that will help you stay organized. Organize your links in ways that will help you get your job done faster. You could just bookmark them in the tool itself, but I always like having ONE place where I can access everything from. My WIKI is my command center.

Product Hot Topics

This is where you put links to your product’s hot topics. It’s valuable to be clear on which parts of your product are considered most important or most critical. This is good business and good testing practice. The reason for this is two-fold:

1. You will want to spend quality time and attention to the hot topics of your project because they are usually


a. the core of the functionality of your project and/or
b. buggy or risky parts of the code and/or
c. very visible to the client

2. The reality of testing is that you will run out of time. You will either run out of time before you have completed your initial testing of your project OR you will run out of time when running regression tests after yet another round of bug fixing development improvements.

You will want to focus on your hot topics in such moments.

Test Suites(by product topic)

This is where you link to your project’s test suites/test cases/test harnesses for easy access and execution.

Useful Links

Generic QA Links QA People wiki Help
Sticky Minds Brett Pettichord.com Wiki Tips & Tricks
QA Forums Bret Pettichord's blog
SQA Blogs Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen HTML Quick Reference Guide 1 (webmonkey)
OpenQA Forums Elisabeth Hendrickson's Blog (Test Obesessed) HTML Quick Reference Guide 2 (devx.com)
JavaScript CheatSheet The Braidy Tester
Testing Reflections.com Testing Jeff
SQA Blogs.com Paul Roger's website
Testopia Martina's Testing Mechanism Blog
Testopia Documentation Rosie Sherry Software Testing
www.softdevarticles.com -> AWESOME QA articles!! On the Watir Front
testdriven.com Splintor's Blog (Watir)
Microsoft Testing Center
GUI Test Drivers Listing
GUI Test Tools (Freeware List)

QA Topics

Test Estimation Process/Metrics Security Automation Load/Stress Testing QA vs. Testing
Test Estimation Article - Sticky Minds SlideShow: User Session Based Testing of Web Applications" Google Video: How to Break Web Software Homebrew Test Automation Apache Jmeter Homepage The QA Catchall
State of the Art Automation (test automation maturity model) Jmeter Links/Resources Google Video:How to become a Software Testing EXPERT
Using intelligent test automation techniques (neural networks) How to Stress or Load Test!
Deconstructing GUI Test Automation
http://www.fitness.org/fitnesse.org
Fitnesse Slideshow
Test Driven .NET development with FitNesse

QA Training

Training Conferences Certification Degrees
Satisfice CAST 2007
Black Box Software Testing (by Cem Kaner & James Bach CAST 2006 Archives
Pragmatic Studio

Open Source Programming

Ruby Ruby::Watir Ruby::Rails Python Java Selenium
Install Watir - FireWatir Watij
Wow! Ruby Cheat Sheet SEARCH! (7 Watir Sites) Python.org Watij API
Lauren's Ruby Cheatsheet Watir Forum (OpenQA) Getting started with Rails "Dive into Python" online book javaFX Tutorials Selenium Users Forum<br>(OpenQA)
Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer (online book) Watir General (Google Groups) Ruby Inside: Ruby blog (An Unofficial)Python Tutorial Wiki
Ruby Forum Watir User Guide Tutorial(onlamp.com) ShowMeDo Video Tutorials:Python Tools for Writing Selenium Tests
RDOC - Ruby API Reference New Watir User Guide Really Getting Started in Rails (Slash7) PythonChallenge.com XPath Checker
Learn Ruby Class (not free) Ruby Scripting 101 Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials PyWinAuto Wiki(Windows GUI Automation) Performance Testing Tricks with Selenium
String Basics & Reading a File Every Day Scripting with Ruby Homepage wiki.rubyonrails.org tutorial CHEESECAKE.org - Python Testing Tools Taxonomy Selenium Namespace
Ruby - Regular Expressions Ruby Rdoc The Ultimate Beginner's Tutorial WxPython.org site
Ruby Forge Watir Wiki nor * nuby on rails Python Tutorials
Ruby Standard Library Documentation Map Keys ('enter', 'delete' , etc.) Ruby on Rails Homepage Tkinter Classes (table format)
Ruby Application Archive Sending Email from a Watir Script Ruby on Rails Weblog Pmw 1.3 - Python Megawidgets
RubyGems Manuals Test::Unit Assertions Ruby on Rails - API Reference Tk - Graph Example
Ruby Extensions Latest Watir Builds Ruby on Rails Wiki Graph.py (A quick graphing tool)
Ruby facets Watir+agile blog The Rails Way Pmw Reference Manual Index
Ruby Matters Site Working with Excel Script example Ruby on Rails Mailing List Tkinter Reference (pdf)
Automating Excel with Ruby Clicking a JavaScript Pop-up in Watir Cheetsheats for RoR Python Image Library (PIL) Slideshow
Ruby on Windows Pop+Ups+Watir PIL Reference - New Mexico Tech
ZenSpider Quick Ref Firewatir Compatibility wxPyWiki - must see for GUI programming!
yahoo ruby developer community wxPython CookBook
Methods Supported by Element Online Book: How to Think like a (Python) Programmer
Gem Command Reference wxPython Tutorials
Chrome Watir: Supported Elements Text Processing in Python
Excellent Tutorial on wxpython SIZERS!
Advanced wxPython Nuts and Bolts (slideshow)
Matplotlib

.NET Programming

C# VB Tools
OpenSource C# Testing Tools Excellent VB6 Tutorials!

Game Development & Testing

UnrealScript Unreal Script Classes & Functions Lua Scripting C++ Game Dev Resources
Unreal Script - Game Cheat Commands OldUnreal Console Commands Lua Forums GameDevGeek.com Tutorials
UnrealScript UsUnit Unreal Script - Trigger Systems Download Lua GameDev.net
UnrealScript3 - Getting Started UnrealScript - Types of Trigger Lua Wiki Unreal Developer Network (Epic Games)
UnrealScript 4 Dummies Unreal Tournament Data Organizing Lua Unit Gamasutra
Unreal Wiki lunit Homepage(better LuaUnit framework!) 3dBuzz
UnrealScript Tutorials (Mod DB) lunit documentation (assertion listing) Polycount Forums
UnrealScript Tutorial Programming in Lua Online Book (Roberto Ierusalimschy ConceptArt.org (wow)
Actor Functions & Variables Lua 5.1 Reference Manual Game Dev Map
UnrealScript Source Learning Lua (lua-users.org) International Game Developers Assoc
Unreal Ed & Script VIDEO TUTORIALS(3dBuzz) LuaForge.net
Lua Intro
Luai: Lua Reference Manual Interface
LOOP - Class Models for Lua
Library of Lua Tutorials

Design & Development

User Interface Design Color! Website Optimization Security
Database User Interface Design Personification of Color! (animated) Website Optimization Analyzer (Free!) Security Focus
'Minority-Report'-ish GUI Design! Colors on the web
Spin the Color Wheel

Teach Programming & Game Development to Children/Teens

Topic Description
Kids Programming Language
Roblox
Roblox Wiki
Roblox Scripting
Alice.org An educational software that teaches students computer programming in a 3D environment

Systems Tips & Tricks

Windows MAC Unix
How to clear "Recent Documents"
AutoIt Functions
AutoIt Quick Reference
AutoIt Script 'Send Keys' reference
AutoIt 'how to' docs
AutoIt Reference
AutoIt Forum
How to Mount and ISO image as a virtual drive in Windows
How to schedule a task in WindowsXP|http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308569