When I say that testing is not just checking something is supposed to work, or doesn’t have a bug, what does it mean? Look at this API: Without even thinking, we already have assumptions on how it works. We assume there’ll be a new user created at the end. We Read more…
Two weeks ago, I was excited to moderate a webinar on LLM-s, where they currently are, and where they going. And before you say, hey, I’ve already seen like 700 of these, this one’s a bit different. We look at the “today” part in a more subjective manner. What does Read more…
A very intensive webinar! I was very happy to show Playwright as it truly is, the good and the annoying. Playwright has a lot of cool features that make it easier to write web tests. And it was really hard to push everything in an hour. In this session I Read more…
Testing gets lots of happy cases. Sometime negative cases.When I hear those terms, my spider-sense starts to tingle. Well, not really, it’s more like Bruce Banner, starts changing into the Hulk. Here’s an example. The method changes the balance, after validation of expiration. Simple. As you can plainly see, there Read more…
Sometime we mix our test planning and test design. So, let’s talk about that. You have a system, or a feature. You need to come up with the test cases. So you schedule a room, invite some friends, get some snacks on the table, and you get in. Five hours Read more…
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…