Category: Technical
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Cypress and Gherkin in Practice: Insights and Reflections
We were deciding on an automation framework. We wanted something easy to set up, dependable, and user-friendly. I had just gotten mid-way through The Cucumber Book: Behaviour-Driven Development for Testers and Developers. I was excited to implement Cucumber into whatever framework we went with. We ultimately chose a combination of Cypress and Cucumber’s Behavioral Driven…
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Troubleshooting an API Assertion in Cypress: Lesson Learned and Solution Provided
This post is meant to be a quick one for anyone who may face the same challenge. A few days back I began meddling with APIs using Cypress. I could not for the life of me assert against anything inside of the response body. The Goal Long story short, using the API at automationexercise.com, my…
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Unlocking User-Centric Performance: A Deep Dive into Perceived Performance Testing with Google Lighthouse
Traditional performance tests typically involve calling endpoints to execute specific actions and measuring metrics like request and response times, error rates, etc. Traditional performance tests are essential for identifying technical issues while perceived performance testing takes a user-centric approach, ensuring that the application not only performs well technically but also delivers a positive and seamless…
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Azure Active Directory And Python: How to Authenticate Using OAuth2 with Examples
Authenticating into Azure AD allows your Python applications to access and manage various Azure resources, such as virtual machines, databases, storage, and more. In testing, one way we can use Azure AD in our scripts is for API testing against Microsoft Dynamics. In this article, we will provide the code and demonstrate how to connect…