jack, Author at Testing Syndicate

In a microservices architecture, the number of server to server connections increases dramatically compared to alternative setups. Interactions which would traditionally have been an in-memory process in one application now often rely on remote calls to other REST based services over HTTP, meaning it is more important than ever to ensure these remote calls are […]

stubby-maven-plugin Maven plugin to start and stop stubby4j as part of the maven build lifecycle This can be useful when you are spinning up an application for integration testing and it needs to connect to another HTTP service. Combine with a port finder plugin for concurrent usage on build servers You can find configuration info […]

The Problem Client Certificate Authentication is a method of authenticating with the target server using certificates. If you are using 2 way SSL on your target server you may see errors such as the following if you do not have JMeter configured to use client certificates. javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure The Fix

The Problem You may be just starting out with test automation, or you may have been a single engineer responsible for building, maintaining and running the suite. Suddenly there is a new QA in the team or other team members want to run the test to ensure they aren’t breaking anything. Immediately they are in […]

What is BDD? I often hear of teams saying they practice ‘BDD’ and prove it to me by waving Given When Thens in my face, let’s check the definition of what BDD actually is: Behavior Driven Development is a process designed to aid the management and the delivery of software development projects by improving communication […]

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Why Connection Pool between your Microservices?

Stubby4j Maven Plugin

JMeter 2 Way SSL (Client Certificate Authentication)

Managing Dependencies in a Ruby based automated test suite

BDD is more than writing “Given When Thens”