Articles

How to Run API Smoke Tests in Your Continuous Deployment Pipeline

In this article I describe how to set up API smoke tests in your CD pipeline using Postman and Newman.

Using Agile Principles to Iterate on Your Life

Agile is good for more than just software development! In this article, I describe how you can use agile principles to make gradual changes in your life.

How I Discovered My Passion for Software Testing at the Age of 39

Most of us don’t know what we want to do with our lives when we are in our teens and twenties. In this article, I describe how I discovered my passion for testing, and how you can discover your passion too.

7 Bad Habits to Avoid as a QA Engineer

In order to ensure that we do high-quality work as testers we need to make sure that we are not falling into bad habits such as testing things we don’t understand, or making assumptions rather than clarifying expecting behavior.

What is API Testing and Why Should We Be Using It?

In this article, I describe how an API works and walk the reader through creating a collection of API tests using Swagger and Postman.

How to Decide What to Automate

Here are twelve things to consider when you are deciding what tests to automate.