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What is Contract testing: A knowledge guide
Let’s Take an e-commerce platform, where there are different services for user authentication, product catalog, and order processing. These services communicate through APIs. For example, the order processing service needs to get product details from the catalogue service. Contract testing ensures that the agreement between these services—specifying what data the order service expects from the…
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Top 5 Tools for Performance Testing: Boost Your Application’s Speed
Performance testing t is a major part of software testing and involves understanding how the software handles expected errors, which is integral to quality assurance. There are multiple free and open-source tools we can discuss in the blog, but let’s start with why we even need performance testing. What is Performance Testing? Performance testing evaluates…
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Essential Free API Testing Tools Every Developer Should Know
API testing is an essential aspect of contemporary software development, ensuring that the interfaces between various components and systems function correctly. In this blog post, we will dive into some of the top free API testing tools that every developer should know about! From basic HTTP clients to comprehensive testing suites, these tools cover a…
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Introducing the Keploy OSS Fund
TL;DR: Keploy is starting a fund to support open-source projects and maintainers. We’re giving ~$12,500 per developer at Keploy per year, in alignment with and inspired by Sentry’s OSS Pledge initiative. Why start an open source fund? Our team is composed of open source maintainers and contributors, our products are open source, and everything we…
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All About Load Testing: A Detailed Guide
As businesses continue to digitize, the importance of load testing has surged, with the market witnessing a significant rise in the adoption of load testing tools. According to a recent report, the global load testing market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 12.5% from 2021 to 2026, reflecting the increasing demand for reliable…
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How to Switch from Jest to Vitest for Better Node.js Testing
and Vitest are two well-known JavaScript testing frameworks, each with its own strengths. Jest, created by Facebook, is especially popular for React applications. It provides a “zero-config” setup, built-in code coverage reporting, and snapshot testing, making it a complete solution for many JavaScript projects. Vitest, a newer framework in the Vite ecosystem, is known for…
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What is Acceptance Testing
Software testing that confirms if a system or application satisfies the necessary specifications and business needs is called acceptance testing. It is usually performed at the end of the software development life cycle, after unit testing and integration testing have been completed. The main goal of acceptance testing are to : Ensure the system or…
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Top 7 Test Automation Tools in 2025 : Boost Your Software Testing Efficiency
"Did you know? Teams using test automation deploy code 15x faster and reduce bugs by 80%. In today’s fast-paced DevOps world, manual testing just won’t cut it. But with so many tools out there, how do you choose the right one?" Modern software testing now relies heavily on test automation, which helps teams produce reliable,…
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Why Manual Testing Matters: A Ultimate Guide to Software Testing?
Manual testing is a fundamental yet essential process in software development where testers manually execute test cases without the use of automation tools. Despite advancements in automation, over 30% of global testing efforts are still carried out manually, according to industry research. As applications grow in complexity, many organizations face challenges, such as time-consuming test…
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Developer’s guide to Smoke testing : Ensuring basic functionality
Imagine running a Python project without a requirements.txt file. Just as you rely on these checks to ensure everything runs fine, smoke tests are performed to confirm that your code is ready for the next phase. Let’s dive into the world of smoke testing now! What is Smoke Testing Smoke testing, often referred to as…