Bøger af Alan J. Richardson

Have you ever wished that you had a worked example of how to test a REST API? Not just automate the API, but how to interact with it, using command line and GUI tools, to support your manual interactive testing. Then take your testing forward into automating the API? That's what this book provides. A step by step case study covering: - How to read the REST API documentation.- How to tell if the application is using the API.- How to interact with the API from the command line with cURL.- Automating with BASH and Windows Command Line.- Sending API requests through an HTTP Proxy so you can see in detail the requests and responses.- How to use HTTP Proxies to create data in the application through Fuzzing.- Postman REST API GUI tool.- Automate 'under the GUI' parts of the application that don't have an API.- Automate the API with Java using REST Assured.- Build abstraction code to make your automated efforts readable and maintainable.- JSON and XML parsing with Serialization and Deserialization.The book is fully supported by executable code which you can find on GitHub, and the support page for the book has sample videos showing some of the early steps in the case study in detail. By working through this case study you will be able to interact with an API from the command line, GUI tools, HTTP messages in Proxies and with Java code. Over the last few years, the Author has used the Open Source Tracks application as an example testing target to teach: Technical Web Testing, Automating GUIs and REST API Testing. This book collates the preparatory work and teaching from the REST API workshops. The code from the workshops is included: for creating users, generating random data, testing basic API calls with PUT, GET, POST and DELETE. Also the early steps of exploring and investigating the API interactively to support manual technical testing are explained in depth

Are you in charge of your own testing? Do you have the advice you need to advance your test approach?"Dear Evil Tester" contains advice about testing that you won't hear anywhere else."Dear Evil Tester" is a three pronged publication designed to: -provoke not placate, -make you react rather than relax, -help you laugh not languish.Starting gently with the laugh out loud Agony Uncle answers originally published in 'The Testing Planet'. "Dear Evil Tester" then provides new answers, to never before published questions, that will hit your beliefs where they change. Before presenting you with essays that will help you unleash your own inner Evil Tester.With advice on automating, communication, talking at conferences, psychotherapy for testers, exploratory testing, tools, technical testing, and more. Dear Evil Tester randomly samples the Software Testing stomping ground before walking all over it."Dear Evil Tester" is a revolutionary testing book for the mind which shows you an alternative approach to testing built on responsibility, control and laughter.Read what our early reviewers had to say: "Wonderful stuff there. Real deep."Rob Sabourin, @RobertASabourinAuthor of "I Am a Bug""The more you know about software testing, the more you will find to amuse you."Dot Graham, @dorothygrahamAuthor of "Experiences of Test Automation""laugh-out-loud episodes"Paul Gerrard, @paul_gerrardAuthor of "The Tester's Pocketbook""A great read for every Tester."Andy Glover, @cartoontesterAuthor of "Cartoon Tester"