Resources to use when you want to test strings

Resources useful for testing strings

In case you really need in your test suite to handle real strings of various types, here are some resources you can use:

The Big List of Naughty Strings:

https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings

The Big List of Naughty Strings is an evolving list of strings which have a high probability of causing issues when used as user-input data.

Faker gem:

https://github.com/faker-ruby/faker

A library for generating fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers.

SecLists Username and Passwords:

SecList sections about Username and Passwords if you want to test authentication:

• Passwords: https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/tree/master/Passwords -> “The Passwords directory will hold a number of password lists that can be used by multiple tools when attempting to guess credentials for a given targeted service”
• Usernames: https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/tree/master/Usernames -> “The Usernames directory will hold a number of username lists that can be used by multiple tools when attempting to guess credentials for a given targeted service”

List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words

This is an old list of dirty, naughty, obscene, and otherwise bad words that can be used to test your application’s ability to handle such content.

https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and-Otherwise-Bad-Words

A list of hostnames and usernames to reserve

https://ldpreload.com/blog/names-to-reserve

I tried to compile what is in that article and make simple .txt files in this repo where I added a bit more.

UI Testing Checklist

Some ideas about Strings and other formats to use when submitting UI forms:

https://www.scribd.com/document/507622474/UI-Testing-Checklist