Author: Himanshu Mandhyan
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Stateful vs Stateless: A Developer’s Real-World Guide (2026)
Why do some bugs only appear after deployment, even when tests pass locally? Early in my backend work, I kept hearing discussions around stateful vs stateless. It felt academic at first, but once I started dealing with scaling issues, flaky tests, and production bugs, I saw how much this decision actually matters. This article is…
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Penetration Testing Services to Strengthen Your Security and Reliability
Modern technology (APIs, Microservices, Cloud Platforms, Mobile Apps) is rapidly changing and becoming a target for attackers as they continue to advance and become more sophisticated. Organizations use penetration testing (a form of ethical hacking) to identify weaknesses in their systems and address them before they can be taken advantage of. Keploy supports organizations’ application…
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What Does Extensible Mean? A Complete Guide with Examples and Use Cases
Extensibility is conceptually found in the areas of technology (such as Software Development) and System Design. The term extensibility may seem abstract to someone with no previous background in the field; in particular, when you hear phrases like: “Extensible Software”, “Extensible Architecture”, “Extensible API” or “Extensible Testing Tools”, it could be difficult to understand exactly…
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How to Automate API Testing (Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners)
APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) power nearly every modern digital experience, from mobile apps and online payments to AI-driven services and real-time data processing. As software systems increasingly rely on microservices and distributed architectures, API interactions continue to grow, making API reliability more important than ever. If you’re wondering how to automate API testing, the answer…
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DevOps Testing: Ensuring Quality in a Continuous Delivery World
In today’s fast-paced software environment, getting product features out the door quickly is the minimum. Getting features out the door quickly + with reliability is what separates high performing teams opening up larger opportunities. This is where DevOps testing comes into play, testing not just at the endpoint of the development + operations lifecycle but…
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API-First Development: The Complete Guide
In today’s world of software development, API-first has become more than a trend it is a best practice that allows teams to build scalable, modular and best of all future-ready applications. In an API-first approach, the Application Programming Interface (APIs) are not an afterthought, they are envisioned, documented and agreed upon before the development of…
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REST API Testing: Strategy, Automation & Best Practices
In the digital-first world of today, many applications depend on RESTful APIs as the connectivity placeholder: whether between microservices, mobile applications, third-party integrations or SaaS platforms, it is important for ensuring these APIs are reliable, secure and performant. This is where you can utilize REST API testing. Key Takeaway: REST API testing validates endpoints for…
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Generative AI Testing Tools: The Next Evolution of Test Automation
In the last ten years, software testing has advanced significantly, but today’s applications require more than just using conventional forms of automated software testing or entry-level tools that employ artificial intelligence (AI). The rise of microservice architectures, API calls, and continuous deployment has led to another category of software testing products called "Generative" AI Testing…
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AI Testing: A Complete Technical Guide to Intelligent Software Quality
Testing is a very important and necessary step in the SDLC, but most teams ignore it or don’t care much about it, while some teams spend most of their time on testing instead of building features. AI is really changing the way we write code, but most people use it mainly for writing test cases,…
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Scenario Testing: A Complete Guide for QA and Software Teams
In contemporary software engineering, it is not sufficient to simply confirm that software applications function perfectly across all features – they also need to behave correctly with real users in real worlds. In this context, scenario testing has a significant role to play. Scenario testing fills the gap between functional testing and real user experience…