Put on your aprons people – it’s recipe time. Today we’ll be cooking up a delicious batch of automated API tests. For this recipe, you’ll need a buttery Postman base, a squeeze from a random user data API, and a CI system to bake it all in (I used Azure Devops). The result is a set of golden-brown integration tests that use realistic fake data and run in the cloud on a schedule of your choosing. Sound like the sort of recipe you’d like to master? Read on… Continue reading
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Blazor and .NET Core hosting – the future’s bright
In a past life, I was a web developer. In this post, I’d like to take an outsiders perspective on a couple of developments that I think will be hugely disruptive in the coming years. The first of these is .NET Core making it possible to run .NET websites on cheap hosting. The second is Blazor, which promises to let us use .NET for front-end web scripting – replacing Javascript. This post is a bit more soapbox-y than usual, so bear with me!
Using Postman as a data pump for testing (instead of Fiddler)
In my current role, I find myself working a lot with our sales handling pipeline. It takes an order through our API and starts a set of processing pipelines for things like fulfilment, accounting, and our CRM system. Because the main entry point of the pipeline is an API, I used to find myself using Fiddler to make fake calls to our API in the testing environment.