• Software Testing Career – A long term plan with APIs

    Software Testing Career – A long term plan with APIs

    API usage is increasing considerably representing themselves as an entire vertical. Traditionally, APIs were developed and implemented internally. However, the present date APIs are sold in marketplaces reducing businesses to reinvent the wheel in implementing everything ground up. This is a piece of good technological progress for software testers, why? Sooner or later in the…

  • How to handle challenging situations at workplace?

    How to handle challenging situations at workplace?

    In a professional set up challenges creeps through in one form or the other. Uncalled situations can get tricky to handle if not approached in a right way. There are more things at stake when situations are mishandled- loss of reputation, loss of professional relationship, loss of credibility etc. In today’s information overload, single button…

  • Postman FLow

    Postman FLow

    Postman is a tool used to build, maintain, document and test API’s. It’s like a one stop destination for all API needs. Postman has introduced a new feature called “Flow”, which is an API workflow builder. This feature helps to map out the API’s, chain the responses and visually analyse the API interaction. API’s can…

  • Take the grandstand with experiential story

    Take the grandstand with experiential story

    The beauty of being a Hiring manager is, you get to meet many people and talk to individuals. People presenting dynamic dimensions with varied experiences, challenges and perspectives. It fascinates me to see how unalike we all are. The hardest part for Hiring Manager is to find the right fit for the team and the…

  • String of Zesty Tips

    After participating in #21days21tips initiative from The Test Chat Community on the 22nd day I sat there blankly  staring the wall thinking how quick the days flew by. When I came across this initiative on Linkedin, initially I wasn’t too keen on participating as my mind was pretty convincing that I will give up due to work…

  • Reason why Cypress test are getting unproductive

    Reason why Cypress test are getting unproductive

    Cypress has been favorite automation tool among QA community. However, not all teams are able to harness cypress to its full potential. Cypress philosophy is quite parallel to the traditional automation tools. Though the cypress adoption rate is high, the ROI is still a concern. This content is purely focussed on the pointers which needs…

  • "Thunder Client" a VS Code Extension

    "Thunder Client" a VS Code Extension

    Story goes as below.  Imagine an intense work day, furiously moving your fingers on the keyboard to get things done. And you have to constantly juggle between 2 different tools, it’s like getting both parts of your brain on fire. Have you ever come across such a day? I have, multiple times. The days I remember…

  • JSON Basics

    JSON Basics

    A software tester who works closely with web applications, it is important to understand the concept of JSON. Every client-server communication is driven through JSON under the hood. Hence, it’s all the more important to understand what this format represents and why this format is widely used across development teams.  Why do you have to…

  • Start your Accessibility test with these 5 tools

    Start your Accessibility test with these 5 tools

    Web Accessibility or Digital accessibility  is driven by inclusive development culture. Many thanks to all those accessibility advocates who have helped in educating businesses and development teams about inclusive development and its importance. Now, the market is flooded with multiple tools to analyse the coverage of accessibility guidelines defined by WCAG standards. This article is…

  • Responsible Responsive tests

    Responsive UI’s are the basic requirement for any web application, the whole user experience aspect is driven through responsive UI. Selection gets huge with multiple devices and the number of browser combination. Foldable smartphones are not making it any easy, the challenge only gets bigger.  At the moment most of the responsive testing is performed manually…