Simple truths of Software Testing and Automation
Software testing and Test automation is nuanced field. There are many common sense truths that engineers should take care. This post elaborates on a twitter ...
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10 years of Software Testing and Automation
I started my career as a professional Software tester and Automation engineer 10 years ago on this very day. This post is me reflecting on how this decade we...
🎉 Announcement - API testing in python course live on Test automation university
Here to announce that the course on building an API test automation framework using Python is finally live on Test automation university. Check it out
Python API test automation framework (Part 9) Running tests in parallel
We explore using pytest xdist plugin to run tests in parallel for our framework
Python API test automation framework (Part 8) Adding reporting with report portal
Any framework is incomplete without a robust test results reporting setup, In this post, I walkthrough how to setup pytest to report portal integration for p...
Python API test automation framework (Part 7) Refactoring structure
So far we’ve seen how to do something using a specific module in python and their syntaxes. In this post we explore what could be a good API automation frame...
Python API test automation framework (Part 6) API response schema validation
Asserting that your api’s are returning responses conforming to valid schema contracts is very important. With a data validation library its often quite easy...
Python API test automation framework (Part 5) Working with JSON and JsonPath
In this post, we explore how to perform serialization/de-serialization of JSON and use JsonPath to parse JSON strings which forms a crucial building block of...
Python API test automation framework (Part 4) Working with XML using python lxml
Working with XML in any test automation framework specially API is inevitable, In this post we see how to write tests for an API that returns XML response an...
Python API test automation framework (Part 3) Adding fluent assertions using assertpy
Using a good assertion library can supercharge your automation framework. In this post we see how assertpy library could be useful and see some examples of i...
Python API test automation framework (Part 2) Making HTTP requests
Learn how to make http requests in python using requests and pytest for a locally hosted Flask API
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How mob testing can bootstrap whole team quality
Mob testing is a very useful testing practice to encourage the whole team to test together and more often and is really effective at finding bugs while teach...
Testers identity crisis - QA/QE/AE/SDET/SET/TA? 🤷
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How to do logging integration with logback and testng in report portal
How to push logs into report portal using logback in a Kotlin/TestNG/Gradle project