Author: kristinjackvony

Last week, I wrote about how I had just returned from the annual Postman users’ conference, and how I was so excited about everything I had learned there!  I’m still talking to anyone who will listen about all the great things Postman can do.  In this week’s post, I’m going to show you how you […]

I’ve just returned from POST/CON, the annual Postman users’ conference, and I am so excited about everything I learned there!  So excited, in fact, that I’m going to devote not one, but TWO blog posts to sharing my findings. If you aren’t already using Postman for your API testing, why on earth not?  It’s the […]

One of the first QA jobs I had was a position at a company that made software that could be used to create mobile applications.  It was a very complex application, with so many features that it was often hard to keep track of them all.  Shortly before I started working there, the company had […]

I missed a bug recently, more than once, and I’m kicking myself about it.  This post is about that bug and how you should make sure to always run a test for it. It’s also about how to keep from repeating your mistakes. Here’s what happened: as I mentioned in a previous post, I’m currently testing […]

In the last two posts, we’ve been going deep, learning about how information is transmitted over the Internet.  In Part I, we learned how data is divided into packets, sent to its destination and reassembled.  In Part II, we learned how data sent over the Internet can be encrypted and protected.  But how does data […]

In last week’s post, we talked about how HTTP works to pass information from a server to a browser.  But when information is passed back and forth between systems, we need to make sure that it’s protected from being intercepted by others for whom it was not intended.  That’s why HTTPS was created.  In this […]

Recently, an astute reader of my blog pointed me to a great post about the importance of having technical skills as a software tester.  The author makes an excellent analogy: a software tester who doesn’t understand technical concepts is like a surgeon who doesn’t understand anatomy.  If we are going to test our applications thoroughly, […]

I’ve been testing file uploads lately, which is always fun.  It’s also important, because uploading a malicious file is one of the ways that a bad actor can exploit your application, either by taking down your application, or by extracting sensitive data from it.  In this week’s post, I’ll offer six tips and four tools […]

Anyone who has been reading my blog for a while knows that I’m passionate about API testing.  I’m also passionate about using Postman for API testing, because in my opinion it’s the easiest way to test API requests.  So it makes me sad when I see people testing an API and only asserting that they […]

If you were to guess the importance of various types of automated tests by looking at the number of tutorials and articles about them on the Web, you’d think that UI tests were the most important.  But this is not the case- so much of an application can be tested through other means, especially API […]