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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 Testing vs End-to-End Testing: What’s the Difference

    Integration Testing vs End-to-End Testing: What’s the Difference

    As software architectures evolve toward microservices, event-driven workflows, and polyglot backends, testing strategies must evolve accordingly. Two of the most important—and often confused—approaches are integration testing and end-to-end (E2E) testing. This article explains each method in depth, compares their scope and cost, and shows how Keploy automates and simplifies both through traffic-based test generation and…

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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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  • How To Securing APIs And Protect Sensitive Data ?

    How To Securing APIs And Protect Sensitive Data ?

    As the number of securing APIs used by businesses continues to grow, so do the security threats. To ensure that your APIs are well-protected and that sensitive data is not compromised, it is essential to take the necessary precautions. In this blog article, we will discuss some key steps you can take to securing APIs…

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  • Terminologies Around API fellowship

    Terminologies Around API fellowship

    API fellowship Terms Here are some common terminologies used in the context of API fellowship: API: An application programming interface (API) is a set of rules that specifies how two software systems should communicate with each other. It defines the types of requests that can be made, the data formats that can be used, and the…

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