🧰 Tools

🔬 Applications

• Jira for day-to-day test auditing, task management and time tracking.
• Github for a documentation, deployment and white-box testing strategies.
• Slack for day-to-day communication and sharing test reports.
• Google Sheets to organize test plans.
• Droplr for screenshots, videos and organizing project media.
• Browserstack for cross-operating system, cross-browser, and cross-device testing.
• Postman / Insomnia for API testing.
• Cypress for automated E2E testing.
• Jmeter for load balance performance testing.
• Android Studio for testing native mobile application installation and use.
• Gimp for comparing figma to screenshots (when properly sized).
• Figma for guiding design (now has Dev mode).

🖼️ Browsers

• Chrome Chromium Browser Engine with most market share.
• Firefox Mozilla Browser Engine.
• Safari Often behaves differently than the rest.
• Edge Chromium Browser Engine testing on Windows.
• Replay.io newer QA-specific testing browser.
• Opera a very quirky browser with lower but significant market share.
• Brave Chromium, blocks a lot of scripts, analytics and cookies by default.
• Chrome Dev Mostly stable newer release version of Chrome.
• Chrome Canary Bleeding-edge unstable NEWEST release version of chrome.

🕸️ Browser Extensions

• 1Password shared secure access to necessary credentials.
• Auto Scroll Down for side-by-side reactive component comparison.
• axe DevTools accessibility checker.
• Hnspector inspects headings to ensure proper nesting.
• ColorZilla color picker and more.
• Cypress Chrome Recorder exports cypress test files from recorder panel of DevTools.
• Page Ruler quick pixel ruler independent of viewport zoom.
• QR Code Reader for Google Chrome returns urls from QR Codes.
• WhatFont identifies fonts on hover.
• Vue.js devtools reliable component, attribute identifier and more.
• GoFullPage full page screenshot can be copied to Gimp or shared.
• Segment Event Tracker conveniently returns segment events
• Google Tag Assistant works with Tag Assistant to test gtag.js and Google Tag Manager.
• GoFullPage capture entire page with regard to current viewport width.
• Cypress Chrome Recorder allows exporting tests from Recorder panel.

💻 Hardware

• Logitech MX Master Mouse highly-precise mouse.
• Tonor High Fidelity Microphone team can hear you as clear as possible.
• Logitech Webcam should be at least 1080p so the team can see you clearly.
• pi-hole DNS Sinkhole test experience with and without ad-blocking.
• VPN Service test location functionality dependent on IP address.
• PXE Boot installation testing from raspberry pi 4.
• GNU/Linux Unix environment for testing & development.
• Multiple Monitors respond to messages while testing and referencing.
• Epson and Brother Printers for PDF testing.
• Windows 10 test from a windows end-user perspective.
• Black Tea stay caffeinated my friends.
• Water stay hydrated.
• Sleep stay alert.
• Backup Storage save your documents and media just in case.