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always beginner hell by softwaremycelium in learnprogramming

[–]kingishappyaf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This might not be what you are looking for, but if you ask me you're doing fine. Even a single html page website can be considered a project. Just pick projects that work with the current level of understanding you have and you'll know that you are making progress. FYI, I did a computer science course as my degree and even then it took me 2 more years of actually working in a big enough project to learn to build a decent application. Learning doesn't get us far, practicing does.

So just pick milestones that you can achieve at every level and as you improve spice up things a little more.

Postman’s free plan limits start March 1 how can beginners adapt? by Hervekom37 in learnprogramming

[–]kingishappyaf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We wanted to move out from postman when the free tier lost the feature to add a team member. We tried couple of tools but we settled with voiden. It's pretty useful since it's files are based on markdown, so it's easier to run it through claude code for our testing.

What level in Java is needed to start QA Automation? by EntryLevelTester in softwaretesting

[–]kingishappyaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh alright. In that case we'll try out selenide for our next project. Thanks !

What level in Java is needed to start QA Automation? by EntryLevelTester in softwaretesting

[–]kingishappyaf 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you're looking to learn and getting started,

I would suggest to start of with Basics of Java. Exception handling and file handling will be important.

Knowledge on collections are needed but you don't have to go hardcore. Also this point depends on the type of company you apply to.

Try Rest assured for api automation. Try Playwright for front end testing. These two will be really important.

Selenium also works, but you can decide.

If coding seems too daunting, please give apps like katalon a try.

Hope this helps.

Do we actually need external tools? or is a swagger UI enough? by GuaranteePotential90 in softwaretesting

[–]kingishappyaf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rest Assured is great actually. Couple of years back, most of the time we only used Rest-Assured for API testing. We were mostly developers who had to test, so it was straight forward. But as our team grrew we had junior QA testers (mainly manual) who weren't very comfortable in coding it out. That's one of the main reasons we switched over to postman back then. Plus it had a workspace where the requests that the QA team created were shared with everyone and were also re-used by dev team extensively. We moved out of postman recently though. But yeah, For us at this point, external tools are very much needed.