In this post we will explore three UI tools you can use for API testing: Postman, SoapUI and Runscope. We do a deep dive into using Postman for API testing because we love using Postman. This post is the second in a series of blog posts on API testing. You can find the first part here. 1. Postman Postman is […]
API Testing: UI Tools
Cool things I read this week (01-Feb-2015)
I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. This week’s topics are about testing, Apple, space exploration, science and a somewhat mathematical poem. 1. On the easy way and the fallacy of the simple 2. Apple’s original business plan 3. NASA mission to Europa! 4. Scott Adams on science and credibility 5. A […]
API Testing : Developer Tools
In this post we will show you how to use Developer Tools in your browser to inspect the API calls that your web application is making over the network. This post is the first in a series of posts on the following topics related to using APIs to test web applications: Using developer tools to check the API calls UI […]
Cool things I read this week (25-Jan-2015)
I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. This week’s topics include Dave Thomas on the word ‘agile’ being subverted, deployment freezes and outages, a parable of two programmers, the rise of small businesses in the USA and a cartoon on anecdotal evidence. 1. Time to kill agile 2. Why deployment freezes do […]
Pinch, Zoom and Swipe using Appium
Problem: Documentation on automating mobile gestures is not extensive. In this post, we show how to automate mobile gestures like tap, swipe, pinch and zoom using Appium. Why this post? I watched Steve Jobs introduce the iPhone back in 2007. Among the jaw dropping moments were using the best stylus ever invented (our fingers) and the multi-touch pinch-to-zoom feature. Mobile […]
Cool things I read this week (18-Jan-2015)
I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. I got back from a week long vacation. In my leisure, I spent time working on mathematics. This week’s topics are about mathematics and a cartoon. 1. Manjul Bhargava on mathematics and economic growth 2. Hamming on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics 3. Are you […]
State of testing Survey 2015
Hey, professional tester! Want to identify trends in our profession? Ever wondered what the testing world is going to look like in a few years? Curious about how testers across the world are being compensated? Luckily for us, Joel Montvelisky (PractiTest, QA Intelligence) and Lalit Bhamare (Tea Time with Testers) are conducting the second installment of their survey on the […]
AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘load_dotenv’
I needed to use the dotenv module in Python. I tried the usual pip install dotenv Wohoo! I was able to import dotenv without any trouble. It was easy enough to install. Python is so intuitive, right? Well, not in this one case. When I ran my script, I kept getting the error: dotenv.load_dotenv(os.path.join(MY_CURRENT_PATH,’.env’)) AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute […]
Expertise and the people component
Key takeaway: Consider thinking about how the personalities of your colleagues and their inter-personal relations influence the work you do. I had been a chess addict for most of my life. A few years ago, I decided to give up playing chess altogether. Chain smokers looking to break the smoking addiction often take refuge in nicotine patches. Poker became my […]
Cool things I read this week (14-Dec-2014)
I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. This week’s topics includes the biography of a doctor, a DHH career AMA, a Bruce Eckel commencement address, Amazon’s editorial policies and a cool snake video. 1. Ignaz Semmelweis: A doctor that went mad trying to change the medical establishment 2. DHH career AMA 3. […]