This is a small collection of the testing related stuff that I have gathered over the time. I put it on GitHub to have it easily accessible and in one place and to make it accessible to anyone else who might find it interesting.
- The great heuristic test model from James Bach: http://www.satisfice.com/tools/htsm.pdf
- Some information about Paired Testing: http://www.testingeducation.org/a/pairs.pdf
- Further information about Paired Testing: http://katrinatester.blogspot.de/2015/05/pair-testing.html
- Some generic testing personas: http://katrinatester.blogspot.de/2015/01/generic-testing-personas.html
- Awesome test heuristics cheat sheet: http://testobsessed.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/testheuristicscheatsheetv1.pdf
- Testing process stuff: https://dojo.ministryoftesting.com/lessons/when-testers-deal-with-process-debt-ideas-to-manage-it-and-get-back-to-testing-faster
- Guideline of 30 tasks for new tester to learn: https://dojo.ministryoftesting.com/lessons/30-things-every-new-software-tester-should-learn
- One page test plan: https://dojo.ministryoftesting.com/lessons/the-one-page-test-plan?xing_share=news
- Exploratory Testing introduction: https://dojo.ministryoftesting.com/lessons/how-to-explore-with-intent-exploratory-testing-self-management
- CIA problem and plan solutions (aka The Phoenix Checklist): http://bbh-labs.com/how-the-cia-define-problems-plan-solutions-the-phoenix-checklist/
- List of how to come up with test ideas with test techniques, product risks etc.: http://erik.brickarp.se/2016/08/how-to-come-up-with-test-ideas.html
- A list of stuff to improve your testing skills in different areas like OS, security etc.: http://erik.brickarp.se/2015/08/practice-software-testing.html
- A huge list of testing resources: http://www.huibschoots.nl/wordpress/?page_id=441
- Exercise on critical thinking (aka on how to learn the art of asking critical questions): http://erik.brickarp.se/2014/11/exercise-critical-thinking-in-software.html
- A good explanation of the different tests categorizations in regard of automation (unit, integration, contract, end-to-end): https://martinfowler.com/articles/practical-test-pyramid.html
- Some good information about writing a test plan: https://dojo.ministryoftesting.com/dojo/lessons/how-to-write-a-software-test-plan
- A lot of helpful mindmaps: http://apps.testinsane.com/mindmaps/Page/1/date_desc
- A mindmap for a very good first overview on what to test in a web environment: http://apps.testinsane.com/mindmaps/36-days-of-web-testing-by-rob-lambert-the-social-tester
- A small cheat sheet about critical thinking: https://www.wabisabilearning.com/hs-fs/hubfs/critical-thinking-cheatsheet-tmb.png?width=800&name=critical-thinking-cheatsheet-tmb.png
- A small Wikipedia article about finding a root cause: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys
- Some general information about UX and what it encompasses: https://www.usertesting.com/blog/2015/08/13/what-is-user-experience/
- Some heuristics to test UX related stuff: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/
- Checklist for usability testing: https://stayintech.com/info/UX
- Usability guidelines of the U.S. Department of Heald & Human Services: https://webstandards.hhs.gov/guidelines/
- Well known page with a lot of web security related information: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Main_Page
- A comprehensive list of strings which can cause problems: https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/blob/master/blns.txt
- A list of XSS strings: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/XSS_Filter_Evasion_Cheat_Sheet
- Extensive collection of security related list, like username, payloads etc.: https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists
- A comprehensive collection of security testing related stuff: http://katrinatester.blogspot.de/2015/09/security-testing-pathway.html
- Well known web security tools: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Zed_Attack_Proxy_Project (free)/ https://portswigger.net/burp (commercial with a free version)
- The Deutsche Telekom security and privacy checklists: https://www.telekom.com/en/corporate-responsibility/data-protection-data-security/security/security/privacy-and-security-assessment-process-358312
- An OWASP project to learn web security testing: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_WebGoat_Project
- A google project to learn web security testing: https://google-gruyere.appspot.com/
- A mindmap for cookie testing: http://apps.testinsane.com/mindmaps/uploads/Cookie%20Testing%20-%20Web%20and%20Mobile%20-%20Pranav%20KS%20-%20TestInsane%20.png
- A great web security mindmap: http://apps.testinsane.com/mindmaps/uploads/INSANE%20Web%20Security%20Testing%20MindMap.png
- Information from a recruiter on how he handled the different phases of recruiting (application evaluation, preparation for the interviews etc.) http://bestofthetest.blogspot.de/2017/03/the-other-side-of-interview-table.html
- List of testing related questions for an interview: https://www.testingexcellence.com/software-testing-interview-questions-preparation-checklist/?xing_share=news
- List of testing related questions for an interview: http://www.testinginterviewquestion.com/search?updated-max=2014-09-22T09%3A36%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=6
- Nice mindmap of testing related questions for an interview: https://danashby.co.uk/2015/12/07/how-i-interview-testers/
- Well known W3C guidelines (seperating the requirements in A, AA and AAA) which may be used as requirements by companies: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
- Information on how to meet these guidelines: https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/
- Some stories of how people with disabilities use the web: https://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/people-use-web/stories
- Nice mindmap about impairment categories: http://automation-beyond.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/impairment-categories.png
- An Alphabet of Accessibility Issues: https://the-pastry-box-project.net/anne-gibson/2014-july-31
- Accessability requirements of the UK government: https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/helping-people-to-use-your-service/making-your-service-accessible-an-introduction
- A nice little accessability cheat sheet: https://moritzgiessmann.de/accessibility-cheatsheet/
- A comprehensive collection of mobile testing related stuff: http://katrinatester.blogspot.de/2015/08/mobile-testing-pathway.html
- A list of mnemonics: http://www.qualityperspectives.ca/resources/#mnemonics
- One in detail explained mnemonic: http://www.developsense.com/blog/2012/07/few-hiccupps/
- Ministry of Testing list of current blog articles: https://www.ministryoftesting.com/testing-feeds/
- Michael Boltons blog (well known guy from the context driven testing community): http://www.developsense.com/blog/
- James Bachs blog (well known guy from the context driven testing community): http://www.satisfice.com/blog/
- Lisa Crispins blog (author of the Agile Testing book): http://lisacrispin.com/
- Nice blog with a lot of test automation topics: https://www.ontestautomation.com/
- Similar to the one above: http://www.tjmaher.com/
- A lot of information about Unicode encoding and what can go wrong: https://github.com/jagracey/Awesome-Unicode
- Images in different sizes if you ever need to test some image related stuff: https://github.com/ckenst/images_catalog
- Some interesting information about test automation: http://thetesteye.com/blog/2017/03/implication-of-emphasis-on-automation-in-ci/
- A nice tool to play around with encodings, encryptions, languages and a lot more: https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
- A nice little lists for chrome browser extensions: https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/op-chrome-extensions-for-developers-2019/
- A nice little basic talk about automation code smells and how to fix them with Java/Selenium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_SHQFzOosg&feature=youtu.be
- The Automation University offers a lot of automation courses for free. If you want to, you can enroll for free and earn points for completing courses to take part in a ranking. Very nice! https://testautomationu.applitools.com/