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Guidelines to test a REST API?

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Testing and the Community

• Testing Ask Me Anything on Quality Coaching — Sahar will share her experience in quality assistance and quality coaching, the challenges and also rewards. Ask Sahar any questions you have.
• Test.bash(Online); Submission Deadline — The call for papers is closing on the 21st June, get your talk submitted.
• Ideas on volunteering works being a tester, please? — Have you volunteered in “engineering”/technology tasks? Or maybe you’re aware of ways to help?
• Inclusivity in the Times of Corona — Lina Zubyte — It’s time to reset, reconsider the status quo, and make the new normal a better place.
• Tool for API and Security Testing? — Are you aware of a tool that can be used for both API and security testing?
• Guidelines to test a REST API? — Do you know any online resources or books which could provide such guidance?
• Visualising Paths — When there are numerous ways to flow through your application, how do you visualise it?
• Seven practises to expand your software testing skills- Make your interests broad and let your curiosity lead you towards investigating new topics.

Upcoming MoT Events

• Automation in Testing Online — 3-Day Course — 22nd — 24th June 2020
• Testing Ask Me Anything — Quality Coaching — 8pm UK Time — 14th July 2020
• TestBash Manchester Online — 2nd October 2020
• TestBash Netherlands Online — 15th — 16h October 2020
• Test.bash(Online); — 29th October 2020
• TestBash New Zealand Online — 20th November 2020

Automation

• Adventures in Node: Promises — Understand why JavaScript and Node need promises and how they work.
• Test reporting with Cypress and Mochawesome — How to export the results of your Cypress tests to an HTML file so you can easily visualise your test runs.
• Effective use of Thread.sleep — There are different situations when Thread.sleep can be useful.
• Working with user prompts in Selenium — In your tests you might encounter specialized popups, which are generated via JavaScript, and which are called ‘user prompts’.

Business Posts

• Creating Digital Confidence with Data — The feeling that everyone in your organization expects your application to work exactly as it was designed, a journey that requires a number of strategic and tactical considerations.
• Announcing SpeedLab, a free tool to test website speed across browsers and devices — A new tool to add to your testing toolbelt?
• How to Test Image Upload Functionality — Mobile application testing should be at the forefront of your testing strategy.
• Integrating Consumer Contract Testing in Build Pipelines — Extending the consumer and provider tests into the build pipeline.

Accessibility

• Optimizing keyboard navigation using tabindex and ARIA — A micro-case study on implementing keyboard-friendlier article listings for an online publication.
• Legacy Applications and Accessibility — While at a certain time, legacy applications may have been a modern and steady solution, over time they can become inaccessible as other code takes priority.

Podcast

Check out our forever automagically updated list of software testing podcasts…

• 15 amazing pytest plugins — Michael Kennedy — 15 plugins that you should know about.
• Building High Performing Apps on React with Cassidy Williams — Giving insights into React Hooks, how WPO plays out in the React world, why it is important to think about state from the start and that its important to always have your end user in mind before even writing your first line of JavaScript.
• #30: It’s Like Playing Jazz — Here’s where you learn about developing inclusive apps — not why it’s a good thing, but how developers can get started doing it.
• Eric Proegler — Software quality certifications — Why would we need them, in which contexts, which challenges would we have regarding them?
• Episode 762 — Special Guest — Darkweb Discussion With Design IT Solutions Founder — What is it? How your data ends up there and some tips to help you and your business.
• 182: Space Force, credit card fraud, and beep-ti-beep — Graham finds himself in hot water with a security firm after a data breach, Carole discusses credit card fraud.

Security

• Windows 10 printer mystery: More complain June Patch Tuesday is causing havoc — Windows 10 admins hit with printer issues after installing Microsoft’s latest Windows security update.
• PimEyes facial recognition website ‘could be used by stalkers’ — A free facial recognition tool that allows people to find pictures of themselves or others from around the internet has drawn criticism from privacy campaigners.
• Stalkerware detection rates are improving across antivirus products — Android and Windows antivirus software got better at detecting stalkerware.

Meetups

• Webinar: “Usando Principios del Testing en Tiempos de COVID-19” Juliana Herbert — Online, Uruguay
• MotMeetupTour — “DEV+QA not an odd couple” — Online, Spain
• WEBINAR: Infraestructura para browser testing usando Selenoid — Online, Costa Rica