#Bug 05 - APIness and Performance Testing
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For March’s Test Talks Wales we are very excited to be holding our first Backbase sponsored meetup. Big thanks to them for providing the venue, beers and pizza’s 😃🍕
We have an amazing talk lined up by Viv Richards on API Testing. For those who don't know Viv, it's worth bookmarking his website:
And Twitter (@11vlr), as he's one of the few essential Testers to follow if you want to find out what's happening in Test at the moment. His talks are also in demand and chock full of top tricks and tips, so we're very lucky to have him!
Simon Stratton will also be doing a short performance testing workshop after so bring your laptop along if you would like to stick around and join in.
The plan for the evening;
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17:45 - Arrive at the Backbase office.
Have a chat with some of the other Test Talk Wales attendees, grab some pizza and have a beer
18:00- Short introduction from our sponsors for the evening, Backbase
18:05 Talk 1 by Viv Richards - In pursuit of APIness
In this session we will look at how Postman can help you both when exploratory testing against a real application as well as to start build up automated checks to create a basic API framework.
By pushing tests further down the stack you can often gain more confidence in the software you are trying to develop and release, and shorten the feedback loops in order to adapt to changes when things don't go quite to plan.
Join this session to learn what API testing is and get started testing APIs using Postman. Whether you're totally new to Postman or API testing or you've done a little, at the end of this session you will be armed with the knowledge and skills necessary to start to help you find bugs earlier in the development process, often before the UI has been created.
18:45 Short break followed by
Mini Talk 2- Simon Stratton - Modern Performance Testing.
In this talk, Simon looks at the state of Performance Testing and some of the most exciting tools out there. He will run through Performance Unit Testing with k6, how Chaos Engineering is taking over the discipline, Live Monitoring and what skills are needed to move into the performance arena. There will be mini-walkthroughs that the audience can follow along with, so please bring a laptop if you wish to do some performance testing on the day.
Simon has been a Technical Test and Performance Test Engineer at IBM, EADS and TrakCel for over fifteen years. He started out building his own performance test tools, then adopted JMeter and since moved on to other open-source frameworks.
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The event is open to all:
Although this is billed as a "Test" meet up it's not just for Testers, it's open to anyone who wants to come along to hear some amazing talks and interact with some lovely like-minded people. Please do share the meetup details with your friends, workmates or anyone who you think would love to attend.