Hilary Weaver

API documentation is important, especially when consumers outside of your team or company are using your APIs. Consumers should understand how to use your API in various scenarios, and sometimes documentation isn’t enough. Including real code examples (not just snippets) of how your API works will help your consumers fully understand how to use it and get it up and running much quicker. Implementing your API from a consumer-focused perspective can help improve how it functions and the overall… Show more

API documentation is important, especially when consumers outside of your team or company are using your APIs. Consumers should understand how to use your API in various scenarios, and sometimes documentation isn’t enough. Including real code examples (not just snippets) of how your API works will help your consumers fully understand how to use it and get it up and running much quicker. Implementing your API from a consumer-focused perspective can help improve how it functions and the overall experience for consumers. Show less

API testing is very popular right now, and for good reason! APIs hold a lot of the business logic that power the interfaces we’re used to testing, but they’re not as visible to us as testers. There’s a lot of value in automating checks against APIs - they’re faster to write, easier to maintain, and generally run much more quickly than UI checks. And, if you already have some experience with C# and some understanding of APIs, you can use a tool like RestSharp to get up and running… Show more

API testing is very popular right now, and for good reason! APIs hold a lot of the business logic that power the interfaces we’re used to testing, but they’re not as visible to us as testers. There’s a lot of value in automating checks against APIs - they’re faster to write, easier to maintain, and generally run much more quickly than UI checks. And, if you already have some experience with C# and some understanding of APIs, you can use a tool like RestSharp to get up and running quickly.

In this course, you'll learn everything you need to start automating checks of APIs using RestSharp in C#, including figuring out what to automate, using NUnit as the test runner, some neat features of NUnit to help keep our test data clean and to parameterize checks, and of course refactoring our code to make it work better than ever. You’ll be able to get your own framework up and running with checks to start adding valuable feedback for your own applications right away. Show less

I am the infamous H-Bomb :D Talking about testing in devops, misconceptions about testing, etc

"QA and Testers are the glue that holds teams together."

Hilary Weaver-Robb describes how her team approaches software testing, how testers and developers work together toward the same goal, and some of the tools she uses.

An article I wrote documenting my experience as a speaker for a TestBash conference.

As part of being a speaker at StarWest 2017, I was interviewed by Jennifer Bonine for the live audience; it was just released for public viewing in January. I talk about the culture of innovation at Quicken Loans, as well as my experiences getting into speaking at conferences.

When you’re first discussing development of your project, it’s natural to focus on how you would test the graphical user interface (GUI)—you can see the fields and buttons, understand the user flows, and start to visualize how you would test it.

Not so fast! The web services that power the GUI need to be tested, too.

IT in the D internet radio show, Episode 5: Something something something QA