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Month: March 2021

Do your tests fail the right way?

Do your tests fail the right way?

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Writing automated API tests

It’s not much help failing unless they tell you what went wrong. A while back I wrote an article about the challenges of authentication for Automated API tests. At work we have also recently started rolling out the first API tests on a new framework with all new Authorisation code. The rollout went fine until literally the last production environment and then bam: The tests failed throwing a random de-serialisation exception. Worse still, the exception was thrown in a library…

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