• How to export environments from Postman

  Postman can export data, including collections and environments, to be used outside of Postman. This is especially important when using Newman (their command-line collection runner). With the release of Postman v8.2 it is easier to find and export Postman collections but harder to find and export environments, hence this article. Export environments from Postman If […]

  10.04.2021 | 8:09 קרא עוד...

• HTTP Standards

  Have you ever been testing an API and gotten involved in a dispute about what a response code should be?  Perhaps you witnessed a disagreement between two developers, or perhaps a developer was insisting the response code should be one thing and you thought it should be something different.  You might have gone to Stack Overflow to see what others think, and discovered people referencing something called an RFC.   RFC stands for “Request for Comments”.  The RFCs related to HTTP protocols are produced by the ISOC: the Internet Society.  The Internet Society consists of tens of thousands of members, a staff, and a board of trustees.  They produce the standards that most developers use when developing websites and web applications, and those standards are written up in the form of RFCs.   The first HTTP RFC was created in 1996, and RFC 2616, the most recent RFC that discusses response codes, was created in 1999.  These RFCs are surprisingly easy to read!  Let’s take a look at some of the contents of RFC 2616 and see how we can apply them to real-life scenarios. Responses to POST requests: In section 9.5, the RFC states “The action performed by the POST method might not result in a resource that can be identified by a URI. In this case, either 200 (OK) or 204 (No Content) is the appropriate response status, depending on whether or not the response includes an entity that describes the result.” So when you are doing a POST[…]

  10.04.2021 | 1:10 קרא עוד...

• Robotics and Test Automation – are we ready?

  I hope the title grabbed your attention, and I bet if it did, it was the ‘Robotics’ part that did it, right? I was privileged to be involved in a round table talk a few weeks ago, thanks to Andrew … Continue reading →

  10.04.2021 | 12:58 קרא עוד...

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