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  • Playwright Alternative for API Testing

    Playwright Alternative for API Testing

    If you’re an SDET who’s been using Playwright for API testing, you might be all too familiar with the frustrations of dealing with database dependencies, data management, and the endless need for cleanup. Let’s face it – Playwright, while fantastic for UI testing, can be cumbersome when it comes to API testing. But what if…

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  • Everything You Need to Know About API Testing

    Everything You Need to Know About API Testing

    Introduction In the realm of software development, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) serve as the backbone for communication between different software systems. As APIs become increasingly integral to modern applications, ensuring their reliability and functionality is paramount. One crucial aspect of this is testing API endpoints thoroughly. In this guide, we’ll delve into API endpoint testing,…

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  • What is Contract testing: A knowledge guide

    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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  • Essential Free API Testing Tools Every Developer Should Know

    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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  • Developer’s guide to Smoke testing : Ensuring basic functionality

    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…

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  • Why Traditional API Testing Fails? Comparing Shadow, Production, Replay Techniques

    Why Traditional API Testing Fails? Comparing Shadow, Production, Replay Techniques

    I want to share the story of how our team at a fast-paced startup tackled the challenge of API testing without any dedicated QA team, the roadblocks that we encountered, and how we ultimately addressed these issues. Baseline Challenge We had 15-day sprints including mandatory unit and API testing. Initially, we relied on automated testing.…

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  • Performance Testing Guide to Ensure Your Software Performs at Its Best

    Performance Testing Guide to Ensure Your Software Performs at Its Best

    Managing performance testing doesn’t have to be a white-knuckled ordeal. Let’s be honest, performance testing isn’t exactly the first thing that gets our hearts racing. By approaching it with the same strategic mindset we apply to our coding, we can transform it from a beast to be feared into a beast of knowledge – a…

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  • Integration vs E2E Testing: What worked for me as a charm

    Integration vs E2E Testing: What worked for me as a charm

    When it comes to testing software applications, various testing techniques can be employed. Three common testing methods are unit testing, integration testing and end-to-end testing. All these different kinds of testing overlap, so you just can’t implement one or two forms of testing and you will be good. Like if you are in the initial…

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  • Know about Record and Replay Testing

    Know about Record and Replay Testing

    Automated testing makes the whole testing process easy and fast. Record and Replay testing make that process easier and quicker. Record and Replay, otherwise known as codeless automation, is a way to run tests without programming knowledge. Record and replay testing has been around for a while. People are now becoming more familiar with it,…

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  • The Game of Shadow Testing: The Core of Test Generation

    The Game of Shadow Testing: The Core of Test Generation

    What is Shadow Testing? The term "Shadow Testing" has become necessary for tech companies nowadays as they have to keep their customers their priority. Rather than testing new features directly on all customers and then making adjustments based on their feedback, companies choose to first test these features on a small group of users. This…

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