What are heuristics? How can you combine them with testing techniques? And how can your use them to enrich your API and UI tests in a systematic way when validating your software?

As a software engineer, you might need to consume an API that is not completely ready yet, or maybe you're still waiting for the API key that is taking forever to be provided. So why not test happy paths, edge cases, failures, timeouts, and performance constraints with API stubs through a mocked HTTP server? Here's why WireMock is a great solution!

When you're working with a REST API, it's very important to guarantee that the data you're receiving match some defined rules and will not break the system. How do we do this? Meet Laravel's request validation tool. 

Do you write unit tests for your code? If you don't, you should. Unit tests are a fast, inexpensive, and efficient tool that helps guarantee code quality.

When we're programming, most of us think about solving the problem that lies ahead. But instead of asking, "How do I create code that works?" we should be asking, "How do I solve problems in the most efficient and elegant way, consuming as little processing capacity as possible?"

Learn how to use Minikube to manage your Docker containers in order to test integration scenarios and avoid problems when deploying to a remote environment.

More important than testing is knowing what to test and how often to test. Here's how you can optimize the time and money you spend on automated software tests during development.