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  • Smoke Testing: Complete Guide for Developers [2026]

    Smoke Testing: Complete Guide for Developers [2026]

    Smoke testing is a quick, shallow round of tests that checks whether a build’s most critical functions work before deeper testing begins. Often called build verification testing, it catches show-stopping failures early. If the smoke test fails, the build is rejected without wasting time on full regression. Smoke testing is a preliminary software testing technique…

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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 [2026 update]

    Know about Record and Replay Testing [2026 update]

    Record-and-replay testing captures real interactions with an application, such as API traffic, and replays them later as automated test cases, letting teams build suites without hand-writing scripts. Keploy is built around this model for APIs, recording live traffic to generate both tests and mocks, then replaying them to catch regressions. Automated testing makes the whole…

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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 To better understand these concepts, you should first learn about the components of APIs. 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…

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  • Everything You Need to Know About Unit Testing

    Everything You Need to Know About Unit Testing

    What are APIs? An API is a set of protocols and tools for building software applications. It specifies how software components should interact with each other, allowing them to communicate and exchange data. APIs often expose data and functionality through a set of endpoints, which are URLs that accept requests and return responses. Why use…

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  • Common Challenges in API Testing

    Common Challenges in API Testing

    Sometimes API Testing can be challenging and frustrating. Every person who’s doing API Testing has to go through it eventually. And there is no other way other than to go through the phase and find a solution. As a tester I have experienced some of those frustrations of API Testing, and to know more on…

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