Marcus Keenton

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2026-10-16 10:56:46 - Translate

When your favourite API client stops being enough
Almost every developer I know has a soft spot for their API client. It's usually the first tool you open when you join a new team. You import a collection, hit send, and within five minutes you understand more about the system than any architecture diagram could tell you. I still use one most days. But over the years I've noticed a pattern. The tool that's perfect for exploring an API is often...

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2026-10-12 05:56:48 - Translate

How to choose the right API automation approach for a growing team
Manual API testing works fine when a project has a handful of endpoints and one developer who knows them all. It stops working the moment a team starts shipping several times a week across multiple services. At that point, someone forgets to rerun a request before a release, a breaking change slips through, and the team realizes testing needs to happen automatically, every time. The good news...

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2026-10-01 04:51:11 - Translate

BDD in practice: how teams turn conversations into tests
Most software bugs that reach production are not coding mistakes. They are misunderstandings. The product owner meant one thing, the developer built another, and the tester checked a third. Behavior driven development (BDD) exists to close that gap. Instead of handing requirements down a chain, the people who define, build and test a feature agree on its behavior together, write that behavior...

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2026-08-11 06:47:48 - Translate

More Tests Is Not the Same as Better Testing
There is a quiet assumption in a lot of teams that more tests means better testing, and that a rising test count or coverage percentage is progress by definition. It is one of the most expensive assumptions in the field, because it rewards volume over thought, and volume is the easy part. The number climbs, everyone feels safer, and the actual protection often has not moved at all. The...

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2026-07-20 11:44:21 - Translate

How to Evaluate API Testing Tools Without Wasting a Quarter
Tool evaluations have a way of expanding to fill whatever time you give them. A team decides its testing setup needs an upgrade, someone builds a spreadsheet with forty comparison criteria, three months of demos and trials follow, and the result is often a decision that could have been reached in two weeks, or worse, no decision at all because the spreadsheet made every option look equally...

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2026-06-29 12:56:18 - Translate

The Developer Workflow With Generative AI Testing Tools: What a Typical Day Actually Looks Like
Descriptions of generative AI testing tools tend to focus on the tools themselves rather than on how they change daily development work. The marketing language describes transformation. What developers who have actually integrated these tools into their workflows describe is something more incremental: specific tasks that take less time, specific cognitive overhead that gets offloaded, and...

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