Growth Hacking API Development & Testing in DevOps Era

API’s provide a more focused and predictable interface to test than user interfaces (UI) would. For the API developer & DevOps Engineers like yourself, this means faster time to feedback and use of atomic tests for a specific purpose - where creating and maintaining tests has gotten far easier.

In this meetup, yo'll understand why Agile development teams are embracing the use of open source projects focused at the API level to test for application quality and build better code faster

Klaus Neuhold from CA Technologies will present, and will cover:

· Creating different types of requests GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE …
· Using templates to speed up test creation
· How to define a base URL, variables and headers for reuse throughout the entire test scenario
· Advanced functionality like Base64 encoding strings (e.g. for authentication), URL encoding strings, random numbers and random strings
· Seamlessly switch between UI and version control friendly YAML version of test scenario
o Import your Swagger/OpenAPI specification to create tests
o Record your test with BlazeMeter's Chrome extension

Speaker / Bio :
Klaus Neuhold is the product manager at BlazeMeter. Klaus has 15 years of experience working as product manager, developer and running his own web consulting business. He is passionate about open source testing tools & their impact on shift-left testing practices. Here is his LinkedIn profile : https://www.linkedin.com/in/klaus-neuhold/