Helpful Resources for New Software Testers

 In this blog post, I just want to share a list of resources, for learning software testing.

• An excellent book on Agile Testing, by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory: https://www.amazon.com/Agile-Testing-Practical-Guide-Testers/dp/0321534468

• BBST courses are a great way to tackle fundamental concepts behind testing https://bbst.courses/videos/

• Awesome book on Exploratory Testing, by Maaret Pyhäjärvi https://leanpub.com/exploratorytesting

• Nice course to get a broad idea about testing, Udemy has a lot of similar courses and they
• have sales all the time: https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-quality-assurance/

• Prep for ISTQB certificate, useful to get to know the terminology and theory https://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Software-Testing-ISTQB-Certification/dp/1844803554

• ISTQB syllabus - if you are learning for the CTFL and if it's in demand in your market https://www.istqb.org/certifications/certified-tester-foundation-level

• Pluralsight has a certification path for ISTQB CTFL as well, I believe they have mock exams
• as well for some of their plans https://app.pluralsight.com/paths/certificate/istqbr-foundation

• Great book on API testing, by Mark Winteringham from the Ministry of Testing https://www.manning.com/books/testing-web-apis

• Free automation courses, from high-quality authors https://testautomationu.applitools.com/

• Ministry of Testing, which is a community and an educational business for software testing,
• very friendly and very active community https://www.ministryoftesting.com/learn

• Guru99 has a lot of good textual tutorials on all sorts of testing-related topics 
  https://www.guru99.com/software-testing.html

• Similar to Guru99, tutorials on a wide set of testing-related topics. https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/

• A company from Croatia has a dope book about QA: https://infinum.com/handbook/qa

• A few useful testing channels on YouTube
• Joe Colantonio
• Evil Tester
• QA Fox
• KarenTestsStuff
• Pirate Tester
• Testing with Marie
• Nicola Lindgren
• Daniel Knott