Tag: api-testing
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API Testing Strategies: A Complete Guide (2026)
An API testing strategy defines how you plan, prioritize, and structure tests across an API’s endpoints and workflows, from functional and contract testing to load, security, and CI/CD automation. Teams increasingly automate to cut manual effort; Keploy, for instance, turns real API traffic into test cases and mocks so coverage scales without hand-written scripts. API…
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API Testing Services: Solutions, Process, Tools & Best Providers
API testing services help organizations validate API functionality, performance, security, integrations, and reliability across the software lifecycle. These services are typically delivered by QA teams, testing vendors, or automation platforms to ensure APIs work correctly in real-world environments. APIs are no longer just backend infrastructure—they are the backbone of modern digital products. Whether you’re building…
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Boundary Value Analysis (BVA) in Software Testing
Boundary Value Analysis is a black-box testing technique that targets input values at the edges of valid ranges – minimum, just below minimum, maximum, just above maximum – where most defects occur. Testing six boundary values instead of every possible input catches off-by-one errors, operator mistakes, and validation gaps with minimal effort. In API-driven systems,…
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Software Testing Strategies: Types, Examples, and Best Practices for Dev Teams
A software testing strategy defines how, when, and what to test across a project, spanning test levels, functional and non-functional types, and approaches like automation, risk-based, and shift-left testing. Within the automation piece, Keploy reduces manual effort on API and integration tests by generating both the tests and their mocks from real traffic. Software testing…
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What Is Baseline Testing? Meaning, Examples & Use Cases (2026)
Baseline testing compares current test results against an approved reference from a previously validated version – not to find bugs in isolation, but to detect whether something changed unexpectedly. The most reliable approach is record-replay: capture real application behavior from a working version, then replay against each new release in CI. Keploy applies this directly…
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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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Why I Switched from Rest Assured to Keploy for Microservices Testing
If you’ve been using Rest Assured for API testing, you know how powerful it is. The syntax looks simple and easier to understand, but things get interesting when you have to write test cases and mocks for a microservices application that has more than 2 services. Key Takeaway: Keploy replaces REST Assured’s manual Java test…
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What Is TDD? A Complete Guide to Test Driven Development
Modern software development moves fast. Delivering bug free code is no longer just a goal. It is a requirement. But how do you ensure your code works before you even finish writing it? The answer is TDD, or Test Driven Development. In this guide, we will answer what is TDD, explore how it transforms the…
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How to Automate API Testing: A Step-by-Step API Test Automation Guide
API automation testing uses scripts and tools to validate APIs automatically instead of testing them manually. Automated suites send requests, assert on responses, and run continuously in CI/CD to catch regressions on every change. Tools like Postman, REST Assured, and Keploy, which generates tests from real traffic, make this faster to build and maintain. APIs…
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A Complete Guide to CI Testing: Benefits, Tools & Workflow
CI testing is the automatic running of tests every time code is committed to a shared repository, so integration issues and regressions surface immediately instead of piling up. Teams keep the mainline releasable by wiring fast, reliable suites into every build. Keploy suits this well, producing API tests from real traffic and slotting straight into…