Introduction API stands for Application Programming Interface. We are used to GUI (Graphical User Interface) based applications and that is what is needed for most users who just want to get their work done e.g. booking air-tickets. However, APIs are a special class of software that help software developers to interact…

We all have heard about Pair Programming and its advantages. Pair Programming is a practice where two programmers pair up to code a certain task. While one focuses on the “tactical aspects” of writing code, other focuses on the bigger picture — strategy, bottlenecks etc. …

Productivity tools are a recurring theme in software development. There is so much to be done in short period of time and budget, we could definitely use a productivity hack or two, can’t we? In this article, I am going to introduce you to one such tool for your Rest…

Have you reached a point in your career where you feel that you need a change? Change is rather a very broad term. Let’s try to be more specific. Let’s say, you are looking for a more challenging role — a promotion, may be? …

Since quite some time now, we are seeing more and more frameworks and programming languages adding declarative programming constructs. React and Angular frameworks are full of them. While support for declarative programming in these frameworks only helps users of these frameworks, lately programming languages like Java and JavaScript have also…

Learn how to learn new stuff instead of constantly learning new stuff No matter how many skills a job description has on it these days, lets face it — its not possible to know every possible language/tool on the face of earth. You can not know it all! We need to crawl out of the FOMO and start focusing on what we…

Recently, I was assigned a project to test an ETL application developed by one of my team members. I had to work with some of the largest file sizes I had ever encountered. The file sizes ran into GBs and wouldn’t open easily using any mainstream editors. …

If you have ever undertaken API testing, chances are that you might have heard about Postman. Many developers and testers I know use Postman to make GET/PUT/POST requests and then they manually validate the response. …

I was recently introduced to this very handy concept of storing JavaScript as Bookmarks and creating “One Click” utilities using the same. And I was like -