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Lewys

Experienced tester at a mission-critical communications company. With a focus on performance and non-functional testing, I share insights to help myself and fellow testers enhance our skills.

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Boosting PokeAPI Performance Testing with k6

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Lewys on May 23rd, 2023

Welcome to part six of my blog series on using k6 to test the performance of PokeAPI! I will cover integrating k6 tests into a Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline to automate your testing efforts. I'll explain the benefits of using CI, how to...

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Testing the PokeAPI using Postman

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Lewys on April 1st, 2023

I promise I'm not a Pokémon enthusiast, but the PokeAPI is just a good playground for testing and learning about APIs, with that let me try to show how to test the PokeAPI using Postman. In this blog post, I'll take...

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Transforming User Stories into Performance Wins

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Lewys on March 29th, 2023

At the risk of becoming a broken record; Performance testing is critical to ensure that software applications meet the expectations of users in terms of responsiveness, stability, and throughput. To achieve this goal, it is essential to translate user stories into actionable performance requirements. In...

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Optimising Performance Testing for PokeAPI

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Lewys on March 26th, 2023

Welcome back to my blog series on using k6 to test the performance of PokeAPI! Part 5! Even I'm a little surprised I've kept this up, to be honest. Anyway, in part 5 I'll show some more advanced k6...

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Implementing Assertions and Error Handling

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Lewys on March 24th, 2023

Welcome back to my blog series on using k6 to test the performance of PokeAPI! In this fourth instalment, I'll introduce the concept of assertions and their importance in validating API responses. I will demonstrate how to use assertions for response status codes,...