Looking for some skills to add to your team? Here you will find some of the tools I use daily and how they can help you.
charles proxy
This tool allows you to modify requests and responses. Since it works locally this won't affect other team members, also it is a good way to debug applications because you can see responses easily.
I use it daily to test some edge cases like:
- A request to the server to buy 400 tickets without actually creating all of them
- Mocking some responses to open events without touching server or data base
- Mocking bad requests
- Mocking location or time machine
-In this example we can see how charles allows us to test easily 4 scenarios
- When chosen country has available payment methods
- When chosen country doesn't have available payment methods
- When network fails
- Testing if cards can adapt text correctly
Postman
Postman is helpful to test APIs and play around with responses, currently I have some tasks done with this tool but can be replaced with thunder client VS Code extension. Here are some examples of what I do:
- Change information to be displayed in UI
- Change parameters to allow certain actions in the app
- Open/Close some events to test UI response
- Verify data displayed is correct validating response in postman
