Front-end or Back-end — Validations are extremely important in any application and can be treated as the brain of the application or the value-added service provided by the application. Therefore validations should be treated and implemented with much care. Let’s first assume you have implemented your validation only in the back end. Advantages Validations…

In our day-to-day life, we offer more attention to functional testing. The general practice is we follow the requirement documents to articulate test designs and then derive test cases out of the design. However, more attention is offered to functional tests. Most likely non-functional tests are done towards the end…

That’s a hard question to provide a straightforward answer. Smoke and Sanity testing are carried out for distinct objectives and purposes. Smoke is carried out to verify the stability of the build, while Sanity is carried out to verify the sense of the fixed bugs. Smoke verifies the critical components…

When you are working on API test automation, you might have come across the challenge of creating dynamic JSON payloads to feed your tests. There are different approaches followed for this. You can use either GSON or Jackson library and generate JSON from a Java Object You can use velocity…

This is a common term you might have come across in your regular work. Let’s clarify E2E testing. For me when it says, E2E testing, two things come to my mind. Testing from top to bottom of the application from front-end to back-end to the database, application as a whole…

The short answer would be YES and NO. 😉 Let’s examine the facts. If you have a build with blockers and critical defects reported, or if you have reported a considerably large amount of bugs compared to the previous build, simply you can come to the conclusion the build is…

I have seen most of the experts say it is ideal to have the tests under the same project where the development code base exists. However, from my personal experience, it actually depends on your test requirement. Let’s examine a few scenarios. Prior to that let me elaborate a little…

This is the most critical question you can ask in your automation journey. In summary, you have to think about, Your automation requirements could be satisfied — For instance, if you want to perform only API-based testing, you have to opt out of tools that are supporting only browser-based tools…

There are different ways we can manage test user details in our automation project. I have discussed them in the below article and their pros and cons. Top 04 ways to store test user data in your automation project How do you manage different test users required to run your tests in your automation project?sajithatharaka.medium.com Here is this article, I will be sharing with you an example of how to leverage JSON to store user details in your…