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Articles and guides on API testing, QA automation, and CI.
What Is API Testing? Types, Examples & Best Practices
Learn API testing from first request to CI. See test types, a runnable example, automation, tools, best practices, and a checklist for reliable APIs.
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Playwright Codegen: Record and Clean Up a Test
Playwright codegen records a browser flow as test code. Record one against a local app, see the options, then turn the recording into a test that fails.
Playwright Fixtures: Scope, Setup and Teardown
Playwright fixtures set up what a test needs and clean it up after. Built-in fixtures, test.extend, worker scope, auto and option fixtures, with a run log.
API Management Security: Gateway and Admin Controls
API management security covers gateway policies and the admin plane behind them. What to enforce, what the service must still check, and policy tests.
Mobile App API Security: Tokens, Pinning, Tests
Mobile app API security starts on the server: treat the app as untrusted, use PKCE, rotate refresh tokens, check object access. Runnable tests included.
API Endpoint Security: Controls and Negative Tests
API endpoint security means each route enforces its own access rules. Build an endpoint inventory, a control matrix, and tests that prove each denial.
AI Penetration Testing: What Works in 2026
Learn what AI penetration testing can automate, where it fails, how tools compare, and how to combine AI checks with a human-signed pentest.
10 SonarQube Alternatives Compared for 2026
Compare 10 SonarQube alternatives by code quality, security, deployment, pricing, and limits. See when Codacy, Snyk, or Semgrep fits.
Payment Gateway API Testing: Engineer's Guide
Test a payment gateway API with safe sandboxes, Stripe test cards, idempotency, signed webhooks, declines, refunds, 3DS, and reconciliation.
AI Agent Testing: A Practical Guide to Evals
Learn how to test AI agents for task success, tool use, plans, safety, cost, and prompt or tool regressions, with a runnable test design.
Enterprise Software Testing: A Practical Guide
Learn to test ERP, CRM, integrations, data, controls, environments, and release trains with a practical enterprise operating model and checklist.
GitLab AI Code Review: Setup, Pricing, and Tools
See how GitLab AI code review works, which tiers and credits it uses, how to enable it on merge requests, its limits, and GitLab-ready alternatives.
Playwright API Testing: A Practical Guide
Learn Playwright API testing with APIRequestContext, request fixtures, auth reuse, UI setup, assertions, and a Playwright 1.63 CI example.