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C# Advent Calendar 2019 – Refactoring RestSharp Sample Tests to Make Them More Maintainable

December 15, 2019 by Hilary

I’m excited to participate in the third C# Advent Calendar (my 2017 post was on combining UI and API automation with RestSharp and Selenium, and my 2018 post was about …

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C# Advent Calendar 2018 – Can I Put All Of My Smoke Tests For A REST API In One Test? Yes!

December 2, 2018 by Hilary

Last year, I had a great time contributing to the C# Advent Calendar with a post on combining API and UI automation. I was excited to sign up once again …

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Implementing RestSharp in REST API automated tests

October 21, 2018 by Hilary

I have written before a few times about implementing automated tests for REST APIs using C# (here and here). In those posts, I’ve used a utility method to handle the actual sending …

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Testing the UI and API together with my new practice app!

October 7, 2018 by Hilary

It’s been a bit quiet lately, and that’s because I’ve been very busy with creating a workshop and new talk for TestBash Manchester! Now that it’s done, I can finally …

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24 Hour Hackathons… with dinosaurs!

February 1, 2018 by Hilary

I recently participated in my company’s 24 hour hackathon. I pulled together my tweets on Storify here: https://storify.com/g33klady/jurassic-hack-ql-technology-24-hour-hackathon-of-2 It was a super cool experience, and I’m looking forward to learning more …

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C# Advent Calendar – Combining Integration and UI Automation in C#

December 1, 2017 by Hilary

I signed up for the C# Advent Calendar with this post – be sure to check out the rest of the blog posts in the calendar! This post assumes you’ve …

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Using SQL Databases and REST together in Integration Automation with C# and NUnit

October 23, 2016 by Hilary

EDIT: One mindful reader noted that I should be using good practices to protect my code from SQL Injection. So there are some updates below, and the code is also …

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She used this one neat trick to model JSON as classes in C#, and her audience was stunned!

October 12, 2016 by Hilary

I recently presented my talk Testing RESTful Web Services for the first time at the QL Technology Conference in Detroit. In this talk, I cover why we should test web …

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Coding the right thing: not just for developers

May 31, 2015 by Hilary

This tweet came across my feed recently and I emphatically agreed: It occurs to me, however, that we as testers sometimes don’t see ourselves falling into the category of needing …

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Should All Testers Be Automators? The Argument I’m Tired Of, But I Argue Anyway

May 2, 2015 by Hilary

It has come up recently, in several conversations – what is the ideal tester skillset on a team? Some folks are in the “make them all automators” camp, or “teach …

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