A Starter Kit

The key to success these days is the ability to respond to changes quickly. The tester role has been re-defining and evolving because of all the changes, such as Agile, DevOps, product management, envolving architecture such as microservices, etc. To deliver value faster to the customer, we need the capability to shift our work to production quickly. Writing  automation tests  and integrated with a  deployment pipeline becoming one of the hottest skills required for the testers today.   APIs consumed by many different consumers, and we can't manually test all of them. Automation becomes mandatory. How we can automate API tests?  How to turn what we've learned so far into lines of codes? Again, in this tutorial, you'll hear a lot of new words. Remember, be pertinent, be kind to yourself, and keep practice. Learning how to write a program is like learning to speak a new language. The language that the machine could understand. You lea...

Now you already have an idea about what is the RESTful API, and how it looks like. So, what's next? How we can start to test it? And what we should test? You can start by learning how to use Postman  to do some manual testing first . What is Postman Postman is one of the most popular tools used in API testing. It is a powerful tool that allows you to create tests easily, store information in different environments, and store data for use in other tests.  For a beginner who has no experience, the user interface of the Postman matches the basic concepts we introduced here . Hopefully using Postman is quite straight forward for you. Download the Postman Let's download a Postman and install it first, you can use it in chrome or as an individual application.  Download the app Adding postman as a chrome extension After installing the extension or app and launch postman, it will ask you to sign up for free. It allows you to share your collect...

Do you have any idea what to do when someone asks you to test an API? What questions to ask to help you identify the testing scope? What tools to use? How to write an automation test? What evidence shows that the test has been passed? In this tutorial, we will cover the basics about  REST API  and  everything you need to know to get started . You'll find a lot of new words in your journey, don't worry about it, it's going to take some time until it starts to sink in , keep practice, have patience, you'll learn along the way. We also strongly recommend that you read the reference in this tutorial, it will help you learn better. This Testing Guide gives you an overall view of how to start, and how everything hangs together. It helps you learn step-by-step, but you can skip steps if you already learn the knowledge somewhere else. Now: Where do you begin? You could start by learning The Basic Concepts about ReST API first. Things like: REST or RESTful API...