Introduction In a microservices architecture, besides the advantages like scalability, faster time to market, and improving maintainability, it also comes with disadvantages. One of the hardest problems with microservices is how to debug errors when they happen. With dozens to hundreds of microservices communicating with each other in an application, you…

With more and more people using web and mobile applications for everyday activities such as shopping, listening to music, and watching movies, applications nowadays must handle a tremendous workload. To ensure that your application can handle an expected user load, load testing must be executed before releasing the application. However…

Learn how to deploy the Medusa backend, Medusa storefront, and Medusa admin using Kubernetes. — Kubernetes allows applications to be scalable with support for load balancing or self-healing. It’s widely used for deploying applications from middle to large size, with a bunch of tools built around it so that you can easily integrate your existing technology stack to Kubernetes. Medusa is a set of open-source…

Fauxpilot is a self-hosted code suggestion platform that supports multiple programming languages such as Java, Python, or Javascript. Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, an assistant professor at New York University Tandon School of Engineering, created it as an alternative approach to GitHub Copilot. — FauxPilot relies on the Salesforce CodeGen, a large-scale language model for conversational artificial technology (AI) programming. Using FauxPilot, you get rid of repetitive code. Instead, you can spend your time focusing on the business logic that your application needs to address.

Playwright is a great browser testing framework with a lot of modern features such as auto-wait, and parallel testing. One of its most powerful features is the ability to intercept API requests. In this article, let’s see how you can intercept API requests using Playwright. — Suppose you want to test an e-commerce web application with edge cases such as seeing how the app handle missing data or invalid data, or network error to the backend services. For such cases, you need to intercept the API requests using page.route .

When implementing automation testing for your web applications, sometimes you want to test for edge cases, such as checking how your front-end service handles missing data or how it deals with network error issues. This is when intercepting API requests comes into the picture. — Let’s say you need to test a Spotify metrics application. Normally, the application will display 10 favorite tracks and artists as below.

Recently Gleb Bahmutov created a plugin that allows Cypress test to have async await syntax support so that you don’t have to always put your code in the then or each blocks in order to do some synchronous testing. In this article, let’s see how to apply that. — Please visit the official documentation of the Cypress await async plugin for more details. So initially without the async await feature, you would need to write the following code if you want to get the length of the elements that matches a certain locator.

Playwright is an excellent automation testing tool that supports parallel testing out of the box, not to mention the modern features such as automatically taking screenshots, auto-wait, and intercepting API requests. In this article, let’s see how you can test a weather application using Playwright. — Prerequisites To follow along with the article, you need to prepare the following prerequisites:

No more setting up Selenium to run concurrently with the load testing tool to understand user experience when the application is under heavy load; you have k6 now. — k6 is one of the first performance testing tools supporting protocol and browser-based testing. You can now run the performance test for your web application through the web browser, just like normal users would do. …