Blog Posts

TLDR; Release of my open source API Workshops.

I was asked how I might go about automating an online calculator application. I have a calculator app of my own so I was interested in comparing the two apps and experimenting with a canvas based JS App.

In this podcast I discuss How to recruit testers: the job spec, and the audition process.

TLDR; Unit Testing and Code Coverage can lead to emotive discussions. These are personal lessons learned around Unit Testing and TDD. Keep things simple. Keep refactoring. View Test and Main as symbiotic.

This post and video discusses what we can learn from the challenge POST /challenger 201.

This post and video shows how to complete the challenge POST /challenger 201 using Insomnia.

I spoke at the Online BrowserStack Breakpoint conference.

Much of the automating we do to support testing involves detecting change. Once our tests pass, they fail when the system changes and the automated execution alerts us to the change. There are other ways that automating can help us.

Much of “Test Automation” falls into the set of “Automated Execution to Detect Change”, in this post I will explain what that means and provide some examples.

TLDR; RestAssured does not support ordering headers in HTTP Requests. But UniRest does.

TLDR; Some tips for seeing traffic when using RestAssured.