This was a lightning talk presented by Sumit Singhal in vodQA-10 : Going Beyond the Usual held in ThoughtWorks, Pune on 13th October

1. By Sumit Singhal
@sumitsinghal

2. That's weird...
It works fine
on my It's never done
computer that before.
It's just some
What did you
unlucky
type in wrong
coincidence.
to get it to
crash?

3.  Online community provides thousands of add-ons,
most testers do not utilize them in their testing
activity. Sometimes what you see as a defect might not
be a defect because that is something happening due
to installation of a specific add-on.
 Some add-ons do not work with the latest versions of
Browsers, so you might want to have different profiles
of your browsers.

4.  Firesizer - Firefox Add-on, it allows you to resize the window to
specific dimensions.
 View Dependencies – Firefox Add-on, View Dependencies adds a
tab to the Page Info Window, in which it lists all the files which were
loaded to show the current page.

5.  Yslow
 MeasureIT –

6.  CheckFox - This add-on is helpful in checking / unchecking
multiple checkboxes in a webpage.
 Auto-Reload – Chrome Extension, Reloads a web page on a regular
basis. The interval is configurable through the "options" page.
 CQstyle CSS editor - Chrome Extension, Perform live CSS edits
and use a slider to quickly change values.

7.  Validity - Chrome Extension, Validity can be used to quickly
validate your HTML documents from the address bar. Validity also
gives you the option to use your own installation of the W3C Validation
Service

8.  WebEdit – Chrome Extension, Very fun extension, can be used to
edit any webpage!! Just press F7 on any webpage, and edit text and
delete things like photos, and embed elements. You can even delete a
YouTube video off a page!
 SitezMeter - Chrome Extension, Shows the PageRank of webpages
you are browing plus site traffic charts from Google Trends, Alexa and
Compete.

9. Explore various Add-on
for different browsers.

10. Thank You