Moving from Gui to Api Testing: Challenges Faced & Lessons Learnt - Shivani Gaba

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Shivani Gaba

Senior QA

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Talk Description

After spending countless hours in testing GUI and backend, numerous bugs are encountered in production. What’s missing? Due to the crunch of resources and time, API testing is generally skipped and that’s where a lot of bugs resides. However, noticing the increase in the number of APIs used for development of years, it’s crystal clear that API testing is the new king!

GUI testing revolves around user’s experience, look & feel of the product. Can we justify applying the same approach for testing APIs?

If yes, how? If no, then what crucial scenarios should be covered, what are prerequisites needed, what is a must-do checklist for API tests? If you are less associated with API and lack of answers, don’t worry. You are not alone.

Shivani had faced a similar situation when she didn’t even know “A” of API testing. Based on her experiences at Kreditech and XING, she’ll explore what the API testing is all about, its core values, test strategy, common API testing mistakes and how to avoid them. Join the talk to know about her tale of shifting perspective from browsers, button, textboxes to requests, response and endpoints.

Takeaways

  • How to perform API testing keeping in mind user’s perspective.
  • Tools that can make life easier when it comes to API
  • Art of using techniques of UI testing in API testing
  • How to motivate your team for contribution in stable APIs
What you’ll learn

By the end of this talk, you'll be able to:

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Shivani Gaba

Senior QA

Shivani is a passionate QA Engineer who believes that knowledge sharing boost up all engaged parties and increases their confidence. It was summer of 2013 when Shivani and “testing” met each other first time and are best friends since then. Holding rich experience in testing domain, she currently works as Senior QA Engineer with XING (the largest business network in German speaking countries). With hands-on in all layers of software testing ranging from UI(frontend), API and backend, functional, non-functional , mobile testing - API remains her all-time favourite. As a certified scrum master, working in agile manner is always her approach. She believes in idea of spreading her findings about any “new fancy stuff” she learns. She has worked with multiple international teams and brings forward idea of whole team contributing for quality. She's always up for conversation over twitter, email, linkedin, Xing or beer table :) Linkedin Xing
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Tags

  • api-automation
  • technical-testing
  • testing-tools
  • test-design