CONTRACT TESTING FOR MICROSERVICES

I had a chat with Lewis Prescott, QA Lead at Cera Care and Test Automation University Author at Applitools Do checkout the podcast to learn more from his testing journey and experience. 00:00 Intro Question1 1:09 You have a degree in psychology, how does it help in testing? Question2 3:36 You worked at a place for Cancer research, do did you learn there? Question3 7:46 What's your style of leading your testing team? Hope you find this helpful. Thanks Shruti #testing #podcast #itishruti

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Season 3 of TesterSpeak kicks of with Lewis Prescott. Lewis is a QA Lead at Cera Care. He speaks about his journey and a lot of other topics. Here is where you can find more information about Lewis https://www.linkedin.com/in/lewis-prescott-12409a44/ https://www.pactman.co.uk/contract-testing-podcast https://www.pactman.co.uk/api-contract-testing-blog https://twitter.com/WuigPrescott This video is supported by Moolya Software Testing (https://moolya.com) and Bugasura (https://bugasura.io)

Contract Testing with Lewis Prescott https://testguild.com/podcast/automation/a399-lewis/ Wondering how to get started with API Contract Testing? In this episode, Lewis Prescott, an experienced QA Lead specializing in API testing, will explain. Discover what contract testing is, why it’s needed, test tools, and other API testing awesomeness. Listen up! 🔔 Subscribe and Hit the Bell to Get Access to my WEEKLY Automation, Performance, and Security Testing Awesomeness: https://rcl.ink/vAC 💡==Resources== Get weekly automation tips from me straight to your inbox: https://testguild.com/newsletter/

Talk Takeaways: 1. The difference between mocks and API Contracts 2. How to code isolated end-to-end tests with Cypress & Pactflow 3. Benefits of using API contract stubs About The Talk: Testing in microservices can get tricky very quickly. Contract testing offers some ways to make Microservices Testing easier, quicker and less costly. Want to take your Microservices e2e testing to the next level? Want to deploy microservices with more confidence and move to continuous deployment? Then integrating contract stubs in to your end to end tests is for you. Using Cypress & Pactflow, I will demonstrate how you can run end-to-end tests with API contracts to provide more stable, easier to maintain and a more realistic test suite. #TestFlix #SoftwareTesting #APIcontracts #MicroservicesTesting About Lewis: I’m an experienced QA Lead at Cera Care (one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies), having worked across different industries including Healthcare, Non-profit, Retail and PropTech. Working for companies such as ASOS during Black Friday sales mayhem, Zava delivering a safe and secure medical service to patients and Cancer Research UK enabling scientists to save lives through technology. I am also a course author on Test Automation University & Udemy, sharing my knowledge is a passion of mine. Connect To The Speaker: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lewis-prescott-12409a44/ https://www.pactman.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/WuigPrescott This video is of one of the Atomic Talks presented at #TestFlix- Global Software #Testing Binge, 2022. TestFlix 2022 had: - 3,375,282 Social Media Reach - 27,954 Social Media Interaction - 9,450 Social Media Likes - 976 Social Media Mentions - 61 Speakers - 14 Themes - 60 Atomic Talks - 14 Speaker Countries - 12 K + Registrations - 119 countries - 4000 + companies - 3500 + Attendees - 6000+ Messages shared on Event chat TestFlix 2022 Proud Sponsors: BrowserStack - https://www.browserstack.com/ ACCELQ - https://www.accelq.com/ Opkey - https://www.opkey.com/ PhonePe - https://www.phonepe.com/ GSPANN - https://www.gspann.com/ LambdaTest - https://www.lambdatest.com/intl/en-in Virtuoso - https://www.virtuoso.qa/ Yubi - https://www.go-yubi.com/ Testguild - https://testguild.com/ Fasal - https://fasal.co/ Virtualan - https://www.virtualan.io/ Liked the Talks at TestFlix? Check out our upcoming event Worqference, a workshop only testing conference, for more such learnings. Worqference: https://bit.ly/worqference

I'm Lewis Prescott and I am currently a QA Engineer at Asos, formerly of 'The Test People' based in the Leeds office. I have a variety of experience at different organisations, usually forming opinions on automation and the best way to adopt it. I currently love writing unit tests and getting involved in testability discussions with my colleagues. I teach coding (python) at a local school in Camden, London. I mentor an intern and another QA here at ASOS. I love to teach and learn from others. Asos is a large organisation which has grown significantly over the past few years. This had meant layers of management and teams spawning out of nowhere. I want to discuss my journey of implementing Pact (Contract Testing Framework) in a large organisation. The challenges I faced during the process and the lessons learnt including the technical Part: Setting up the framework in C#, people part: Getting buy in from the wider team and consumers part: Gettting buy in from the wider business.

This talk builds on my course for Test Automation University (https://testautomationu.applitools.com/javascript-api-testing/) Using the power of mocking and the tool Nock. You can build component and integration tests with one set of scripts. I will show you how this is possible and also explain the difference between component and integration tests. In order to make your tests fast and build tests at the right level, use the power of mocking. The JS Monthly Meetup was organised by Aris Markogiannakis (JS Monthly host) and hosted by Prisma. ✨ Join the Prisma Meetup group here: https://www.meetup.com/js-monthly/ Follow Lewis: Twitter: https://twitter.com/WuigPrescott Next: 👉 Check Previous video: Heavily Connected Data Applications - https://youtu.be/D7C-97HgXTs —————————————————— 📚 Learn more about Prisma • Website: https://www.prisma.io • Docs: https://www.prisma.io/docs • Quickstart: https://pris.ly/qstart —————————————————— ❓ Get help with Prisma issues • Slack: https://slack.prisma.io • GitHub: https://www.github.com/prisma/prisma/discussions • Stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/prisma —————————————————— 💬 Follow Prisma on social media • Twitter: https://twitter.com/prisma • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prisma.io/ • TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@prismadata • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/prisma.io • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/prisma-io —————————————————— 🔠Professional captions for your technical videos Prisma sponsors human-reviewed, professional closed captions for ANY video valuable to our community (for example, about: Node.js, TypeScript & Type Safety, Prisma, databases, etc). Get your FREE captions here: https://pris.ly/closedcaptions —————————————————— ✅ Subscribe to Prisma's YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCptAHlN1gdwD89tFM3ENb6w?sub_confirmation=1

In this STET Session, Lewis Prescott has explained and practically demonstrated about the process of using JavaScript for API Testing. 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚: - Why JavaScript for API Testing? - Supertest framework for API Testing - Nock for mocking - Integration Tests with Supertest and Nock 𝐐&𝐀: - Why API Testing using JavaScript? - Preferable Use cases for API Testing? - API Testing or UI Functional Testing? - Different Frameworks available for API Testing? - Common Test Failures while performing API Testing? - Performing API Testing when the feature is under development? - Planning API Testing in a Project? - API Testing falls under White box or Black box? - Learning path for beginner in API Testing?

Testing is everyone’s responsibility. At Cancer Research UK we have overcome many barriers and challenges to making End to End tests a first class citizen inside the continuous integration pipeline. Some of which I will present in this talk: - Introducing the term "Acceptance Tests" instead of End to End Tests - Page Object Model vs App Actions - BDD vs Vanilla JS - Horizontal End to End Tests vs Vertical End to End Tests I hope our journey will align with many other people’s current, past or future experience, potentially encouraging some people to take the leap and make automated testing a team responsibility. A bit about Lewis: Currently a QA Lead at Cancer Research UK. Lewis specialises in API and Contract testing, and especially enjoys pair programming and training developers to be better testers. Lewis loves to share and teach others the craft of testing and has also volunteered at Code Club UK teaching programming basics to the next generation of QA’s.