Lessons from a Hackathon — as a Beginner and a Test Lead A first REST Assured API testing hackathon often looks straightforward at the start: automate APIs, write test cases, and help the team pass scenarios. But in real projects, another responsibility quickly emerges Designing the automation framework for the entire team. In this case, the role involved acting as a Test Lead while still being a beginner in REST Assured —a situation many engineers face early in their career

It was the time when I started my DS algo project in March 2025. When I started my first automation project using Cucumber BDD, one of the earliest challenges I faced was test data management. Hardcoding test values inside feature files or step definitions felt wrong and unscalable. I needed a clean, reusable, and flexible way to read test data — excel was the best choice to read test data. This blog explains why I designed my Excel reader the way I did, based on real project

Automation frameworks are essential in testing for ensuring high-quality web applications. Most popular tools available in the market are - Playwright , Selenium , Cypress. Each has its own strengths , but playwright plays a major role as its serves more advance features when compared to selenium and in some areas it overcomes cypress too. Here's the breakdown why... Faster Execution Playwright - Communicates directly with the browser. So it's faster. Selenium - Uses (Client-

Please refer to the previous section - Docker for Curious Minds - Your first step, Part 1 In Part 1 , we discussed an introduction to...

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Hello everyone, I would like to share my knowledge on how to perform data driven testing using excel reader, access data from data...

In the previous part , we saw how to create a Cucumber project from scratch. In this post, we’ll see how to integrate that existing...

This blog explains how to implement a Cucumber BDD framework from scratch in IntelliJ IDEA, with integrated reporting using Extent...

Parallel Testing is a powerful technique that allows multiple test cases to run simultaneously, significantly reducing execution time and...

Fillo is a Java API that is used to fetch data from Excel files. Fillo is one of Codoid’s open-source products and serves as a smart...

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TestNG (Test Next Generation) is a testing framework inspired by JUnit and NUnit with its own functionalities and categories of tests...

Integration of Allure Report in TestNG-Integration of Allure Report and Extent Report in Cucumber framework

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In this blog, we’ll look at how to validate status code using a JSON file in Rest-assured to conduct data-driven testing. This method is...

TEST MANAGEMENT The main goal of testing is to identify and resolve issues that prevent the products from meeting the user expectations....

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Lean Change Management We have all been using Agile principles in software development and seen how it changes the focus from heavy...

This is my first blog and is all about How to read configuration data from properties file in Java. This can be in BDD cucumber framework...