Test Automation
Locked & Loaded
A practical intro to Artillery — a modern load testing tool you can drop into your CI/CD pipeline. Know your code can handle the spikes.
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Test Automation
Test Automation
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The tool-level work: pyramid strategy, contract testing with Pact, why 100% coverage is a trap, load testing with Artillery, API testing without a UI. If AI Agents & Orchestration is about how the work gets done, this is about what 'done' actually has to mean.
Test Automation
Automated Functional API Testing
A hands-on workshop walking from manual Postman collections to running automated functional API tests in a CI/CD pipeline with Newman and Docker.
Test Automation
Trust Your Integrations
Contract tests verify integrations will keep working — even when teams deploy independently. A practical guide to Pact and Pact Broker.
Test Automation
Write Tests That Mean Something
The tests that actually catch bugs are the ones nobody wants to write — negative cases, boundary conditions, and data-driven permutations.
Test Automation
The Hidden Cost of 100% Test Coverage
High coverage metrics feel safe. But chasing 100% can give you a false sense of security while hiding the tests that actually matter.
Test Automation
Integration Test Coverage
Selected for GTAC 2013 at Google NYC — how we used code injection to track which APIs our automated tests actually exercised.
Test Automation
The Testing Pyramid Is Not a Suggestion
Most teams have an inverted pyramid — heavy on E2E, light on unit tests. Here's how to audit and rebalance the test portfolio.
Test Automation
When There's No UI to Test
Before Postman was mainstream, we were already testing APIs directly — faster, more reliable, and sometimes the UI simply doesn't exist yet.