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Open Source API Testing Tools

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The rising trend of using SOA and then microservices as a software architecture has led to the creation of multiple tools for automated testing of the services API. This article presents a list of open source API testing tools. share share share share 

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Story Maps and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)

January 30, 2026 1

This is a hands-on practical session about agile testing where participants split into groups and learn how to do story mapping and how to write Given-When-Then Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) tests.

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Scaling Your QA Strategy: Why Open Source Cross Browser Testing Tools are the Future of DevSecOps

March 12, 2026 0

Today’s engineering teams need to deliver products faster than ever and still maintain high levels of security and reliability. However, many quality assurance (QA) methods for testing in the cloud continue to be dependent on the use of expensive Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) testing environments that charge by the minute, by the test session, and/or by each parallel browser instance.

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  • Why Best Proxy Software Matters for Quality Assurance

    March 6, 2026 0
    What do we do to make sure that a web application will act right to users in other parts of the world? The local environments do not always correspond to the production reality, which is why QA teams have to struggle. Integrating the best proxy software into the testing pipeline [...]

  • Integration of Software Quality Control and Software Testing into Educational Programs

    March 5, 2026 0
    There’s a particular irony in how computer science programs teach students to build software. Professors spend semesters drilling algorithms, data structures, system architecture. Students graduate knowing how to write code. What they don’t know is how to make sure that code actually works when someone’s business depends on it. share share share share 

  • Why You Need a Code Audit in 2026 and How to Conduct It Successfully

    March 5, 2026 0
    Most software today is a mess of layers stacked on top of older, even messier layers. In 2026, we are seeing the fallout of the “move fast and break things” era. Companies now face massive technical debt while trying to shoehorn AI features into systems that were never meant to [...]

  • Balancing Speed and Quality: Strategies for Rapid MVP Delivery

    March 4, 2026 0
    Speed drives modern product development. Startups and big companies both feel the pressure to launch fast, test their ideas in the real world, and grab attention before someone else does. share share share share 

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  • Streamline Quality Assurance Processes with Next-generation Test Management Tools

    November 25, 2025 0
    The challenges faced by QA teams can lead to delays and missed issues in software development. But AI-powered test management tools provide a way of improving efficiency, visibility, and overall software quality. share share share share 

  • Free Load Testing Tools & Services

    October 31, 2025 5
    The software development trend that shifts the target platform from the desktop to web, cloud and mobile applications has fostered the development of load testing services and performance testing tools on the web. It is an obvious option to use web-based and cloud-based load testing tools for applications that can [...]

  • Open Source Test Reporting Tools

    October 13, 2025 3
    Running automated tests is a good thing for software quality assurance. Test reporting tools help you understand the results of the current test run. You could also be interested to see how your tests results evolve over time. Here are some open source tools to help you do this, as [...]

  • Open Source Bug Tracking Tools

    July 16, 2025 3
    Bugs, issue, defect, there are many names to define the problems you have with software, either during the code development phase or when the application is already in production. Bug tracking tools are an integrated part of a software quality and software testing strategy and there are many open source [...]

Videos

  • Best Practice for Property-Based Testing

    December 3, 2025 1
    This talk aims to introduce property-based testing, why you may want to use it, and real-life use cases for including it in code bases. Property-based testing is an approach to testing that involves specifying statements that should always be true [...]

  • The Testing Pyramid in the Age of AI: From Unit, Integration to API Testing

    November 3, 2025 1
    In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) writes code, reviews pull requests, and even generates tests, how does the standard Testing Pyramid still hold up? Has it quietly crumbled under more modern demands? share share share share 

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