Blog | Craig Risi

A personal blog addressing software quality across all aspects of software development, testing, design, and people.

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The Pros and Cons of Different Test Tools – FitNesse

Some testing tools are defined by their capabilities others by the way they use syntax or the formatting of test scripts that make them...

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The Pros and Cons of Different Test Tools – Jest

In my previous blog post I spoke about the effectiveness of using the three different JavaScript libraries to help build an effective API...

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The Pros and Cons of Different API Test Tools – Axios, Mocha, and Chai

Now when we think of testing tools, we normally think of one tool in its entirety. But in the modern open-source development world and...

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The Pros and Cons of Different Test Tools – JMeter

When it comes to testing and automation, we may focus on tools from a UI, API, or performance perspective – but in essence, there are a...

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The Pros and Cons of Different API Test Tools – RestAssured

There are many different types of APIs out there, but if you as an organization are dealing with only REST-based APIs, then RestAssured...

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The Pros and Cons of Different API Test Tools - SoapUI

Today I want to look at the next testing tool in my API testing tool series. And that tool is SoapUI. Postman might be one of the most...

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The Pros and Cons of Different API Test Tools - Postman

I discussed in my last blog post about what makes an effective API testing tool and now I want to spend my next few posts looking at the...

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What makes a great API testing tool

I’m continuing my series on looking at different testing tools, but now that I’ve done a wide range of UI test automation tools, I want...

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Improving CI/CD Pipelines through Observability

I wanted to take a short break from my series on testing tools and showcase some content which I had previously written for InfoQ. If...

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The Pros and Cons of Different UI automation test tools - Cucumber

When it comes to testing tools, one of the fine balancing acts that tools developers need to make is how to make their tool easy to use...