Blogs
Adventures in Automation – T.J. Maher
Friendly Tester – Richard Bradshaw
Responsible Automation – Paul Grizzafi
Testing feeds – The Ministry of Testing maintains an RSS feed of 750+ software testing blogs, the largest such collection you’ll find anywhere.
Tooth of the Weasel – Alan Page
Certifications
Black Box Software Testing (BBST) from Association for Software Testing
IIBA Certification (includes CBAP, etc.)
Project Management Institute (includes CAPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, etc.)
Scrum Certifications from Scrum Alliance (includes CSM, CSPO, etc.)
Software Certifications from QAI Global Institute (includes CSTE, CSQA, etc.)
Software Testing Certifications from IIST (includes CSTP, CTM, etc.)
Conferences
Greater Des Moines Conferences
PDD
World IA Day
Software Testing Conferences
Check out this open source list of software testing conferences, compiled by Chris Kenst.
Meetups
CIJUG – Central Iowa Java User Group
CILUG – Central Iowa Linux User Group
CIRUG – Central Iowa R User Group
DAQAA – Des Moines Area Quality Assurance Association
Des Moines Web Collective, an open source list of local meetups and events
DSM AUG – Des Moines Atlassian User Group
dsmJS – Des Moines JavaScript User Group
DSM TUG – Des Moines Tableau User Group
IIBA-CIC – IIBA Central Iowa Chapter
IADNUG – Iowa .NET User Group
IASSUG – Iowa SQL Server Users Group
PMI-CIC – PMI Central Iowa Chapter
Pyowa – The Iowa Python Users Group
WPDSM – WordPress Des Moines
Podcasts
AB Testing hosted by Alan Page and Brent Jensen
TestTalks hosted by Joe Colantonio
The Good, the Bad, and the Buggy hosted by Bria Grangard and Alex McPeak
The Testing Show hosted by Michael Larsen
Testing Podcast, a curated list of testing podcasts
Tools
Code Beautifiers
- Code Beautify
- CSS Minify and Beautify
- HTML Minifier
- JavaScript Minifier
- JSON Formatter
- JSON Minify and Beautify
- JS Minify and Beautify
- Minify – CSS and JS minifier
- XML Beautifier
- XML Pretty Print by JSON Formatter
Code Playgrounds
Developer Tools
Fonts
Git
- Dangit, git!
- Git Command Explorer
- Pro Git book by Scott Chacon & Ben Straub
Loren Ipsum
Mind Mapping
Test Data
Websites for Testing
Webinars
SQA Webinars, a curated list of SQA webinars
- Webinars on YouTube
IIST – International Institute for Software Testing
- Past Webinars
- Software Testing Training videos on YouTube
- Upcoming Webinars
QAI – Quality Assurance Institute
- Past Webinars
- STP Community Webinars on YouTube
- Upcoming Webinars