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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 using the NUnit TestCaseData feature with your RestSharp tests to put a ton of tests in one) – you can check out the rest of …

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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 for the 2nd Annual C# Advent Calendar! Check out the page here with the full calendar: https://crosscuttingconcerns.com/The-Second-Annual-C-Advent This year, I want to talk about smoke …

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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 of the HTTP request, and another one to read the response. These methods help to illustrate what our automated tests are actually doing. However, I …

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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 blog about some of the stuff I did to create the workshop, and release an app for folks to practice with! Understanding The Problem I …

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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 😀 HilaryI’m Hilary Weaver-Robb, also known as g33klady on the Internets. I’m a Senior Quality Engineer working remotely near Detroit, I tweet a lot (@g33klady), …

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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 got some experience with C# and Visual Studio, so I won’t be over-explaining some things. Comment if you get stuck or have questions! If you’re …

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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 updated! I used this as my guide: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.sqlclient.sqlcommand.parameters.aspx One part of my talk and resources on Testing RESTful Web Services that I hinted at but didn’t …

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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 services, and how to test RESTful web services both with tools like Postman, and C# and NUnit. I was not prepared for, mid-demo, resounding applause …

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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 such advice. There’s the oft repeated “coding the right thing rather than coding the thing right”: We throw together a script that walks through the …

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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 them all programming”, or even “get rid of manual testers”. I find that I have strong feelings in this argument, but perhaps my thoughts aren’t …

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