Useful Links for Testers

Websites & Blogs

OnTestAutomation – A blog by Bas Dijkstra who believes that Test automation is a craft and he loves to share what he has done, seen, heard and otherwise learned.

Joe Colantonio – Discover Automation testing awesomeness.

TesterStories.com – Stories from a Software Tester (Jeff Nyman)

SeleniumFramework – A great website to learn about Automation Technologies.

Software Testing Help – A software testing blog with good QA testing tutorials. In-depth tutorials on manual and automation testing.

Guru99 – A good learning resource with lots of free tutorial.

Tutorial PointSoftware Testing Tutorials for Beginners – This site presents an opportunity to learn learn Software Testing in simple and easy steps starting from basic to advanced concepts.

Parasoft Blog – by Parasoft

Open Source testing tools for functional, performance and security testing, link checking, test management and bug tracking systems.


Great Articles – Must Reads

Automation Testing Resources & Best Practices – A mini-automation testing “brain dump” resource post that includes everything related to automation testing.

6 Open Source Test Automation Frameworks you need to know – A must read for test automation professional.

Best Websites to Learn Programming – An article with a list of best websites to learn programming.


Practice programming/coding skills

FreeCodeCamp is a friendly open source community where you learn to code and help nonprofits.

HackerRank – Join over 1 million developers in solving code challenges on HackerRank, one of the best ways to prepare for programming interviews.

TopCoder – Online computer programming competitions in the Java, C++, and C# languages.

CodeChef – It is a global programming community that fosters learning and friendly competition, built on top of the world’s largest competitive programming platform.

LeetCode – A platform for preparing technical coding interviews and assessing your knowledge of data structures and algorithms

Exercism – Download and solve practice problems in over 30 different languages

CareerCup – CareerCup helps people prepare for jobs at tech companies, particularly for software engineering roles.

HiredInTech – It helps you ace your tech interviews. Master algorithm design, system design, and much more. You can learn with theoretical lessons and practice tasks.

Codeforces – A programming community with Programming competitions and contests.

SPOJ – SPOJ is an online judge with over 100000 coding problems/puzzles for which solutions can be submitted in 40+ computer languages.


Online Opportunities for Software Testing Professionals

UserTesting –  This site offers structured usability testing at low price. Be a User Tester: Earn $10 per Website test and $15 per Mobile test.

uTest –  Crowd-sourced functional testing. uTest is the world’s largest marketplace for software testing services – 80000+ QA professionals from more than 190 countries. You can also become a part of this testers community and earn handsome money.

WhatUsersDo – Start helping companies to improve their websites on desktop, tablet and mobile devices.

Few other sites with opportunity for Usability testers include UserFeel, TryMyUI, UserLytics.