APIs are like windows into the soul of systems. API testing is like psychology. Well, not exactly. We use APIs, the windows that the servers give us, to look inside those systems. Sometimes, they show us more than we ask for, and that can be very helpful. It can also Read more…
Web testing has many faces. In fact, it’s like a whole multiverse of testing. Ok, I’ve stretched the metaphor a bit. But web testing, like any testing, includes so many activities, skills, and of course, tooling. In this talk, which I gave recently on ZappleTech’s “Test Automation Meetup”, I talked Read more…
I’ve given an example of how API testing can get complex. Let’s talk about more options to make things not so simple: Input data . The number of cases we can think of to test, with just the data of a single API, can fill hours of joy. Here’s an Read more…
Years ago, I started working with a client, where the developers were doing all the API testing. They had great coverage, and it was easy to measure it, too. They had an Excel sheet with one column containing a list of all the APIs, and in the cell next to Read more…
APIs are interfaces. It’s in their name. Interfaces in software allow to decouple the “what” from the “how”. The function from the implementation. API testing should reflect that, right? For example, when a user calls a REST request like this, for getting the user’s details: They don’t care what’s the Read more…
You know I like cool names and puns and memes. And then I choose a name like “Intro To Web Testing” which sounds a bit boring. I should have gone with something like: “Madame Web – Better With Tests”. In the webinar I showed different aspects of web testing. The Read more…
Spring is in the air! Almost. It’s just starting. But it already looks promising. So here are some of the events where you can see me, meet me, greet me, and of course, give me fruit. Or ask me for help. Outside the webinars and virtual events, I’m going to: Read more…
This webinar has started out with a common topic I discuss in my workshops: Test types. People always want to know about what is a unit test vs. component test. But it goes deeper than that. Everybody knows what an API test is, but when you’re testing a whole service, Read more…
