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“The Jedi’s Handbook for API Testing” Webinar Recording

The recording of the “The Jedi’s Handbook for API Testing” webinar. Full of Jedis and Siths. And padawans.

Cat doing TDD

“How to TDD a REST API” Recording from JCON 2022

A video recording of my”How To TDD a REST API” session from JCON 2022.

“How to Design Effective API Tests” Webinar Recording

The recording of the “How to design Effective API Tests” webinar. Once you decided what to test – how to test it.

Why You Should Spring Clean Tests

It’s spring. Do we have clean tests? Any automated test we write, comes with assumptions – how the code will behave, how the setup for the test will push our tests forward, and how are expectations about it are going… Continue Reading…

How to Design an Automated Test Case?

Test design – To design a test case, you need to consider what to check, how to run, the development process, etc.

API Test Planning

“How To Create An API Test Plan” Webinar Recording

Here’s the recording of the latest webinar. It’s about APIs and test planning. I show examples of SFDIPOT in Postman. I also explain that SFDIPOT is a test heuristic. And I explain what is a heuristic. Lots of explaining. The… Continue Reading…

The Serialized Killer

Let’s talk serialization. In APIs and testing context, naturally. Serialization is a technique of taking an object and dumping it into a stream. It could be a stream of bytes, zeros and ones. But in the API world, we usually… Continue Reading…

Microservice Webinar

“Microservices – Refactoring APIs to Patterns” Webinar Recording

When we’re thinking “refactoring”, we usually focus on the small (and valuable) stuff. Names, method size. And that is important, and we’re talking APIs and microservices. But I think we’re missing out on the bigger patterns – factories and repositories,… Continue Reading…

“Unit Wars: JUnit vs TestNG” Webinar Recording

Yup, just in time for the holidays! Here’s the recording of the test framework webinar. While I’m going through feature comparison (leaving the basic ones) I’m putting more emphasis on how the features serve us, the meager uses. Oh, and… Continue Reading…

“How to TDD in Legacy Code” From JCon 2022

I was honored to come back to JCON, and present “How to TDD in Legacy Code”. In Java of course. Ok, it was in English, the examples were in Java. TDD (Test driven development) is not just new code, you… Continue Reading…

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