Api on Nicole van der Hoeven

How to Be a Gish - API, browser, and chaos testing in one script (ExpoQA 2022)

Wed, 01 Jun 2022 14:06:49 +0200

For the ExpoQA 2022 conference in Madrid, Spain, I presented a talk about how to be a gish. In this talk, I covered the following topics:

what a gish is, and how it applies to the field of testing
how testing is a multidisciplinary field, and why generalists triumph over specialists in the face of uncertainty
how the tool we choose to do our testing informs the type of testing and the type of results we get
a hands-on example of how to do API load testing, browser automation, and chaos engineering in one script using a tool like k6

There was no recording of the conference talk, but here is a video of me going through my presentation beforehand:

You can find the slides here.

And here are some photos from the event!

How to use k6 Cloud - a k6 load testing tutorial with Bill Rainaud (k6 Office Hours #29)

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 13:58:03 +0200

Bill Rainaud is an inside account executive at k6, which means he talks to users and potential users of k6 every day. In this Office Hours, he explains how to get started with load testing using k6 Cloud, which is a SaaS platform for running and scaling up load tests on the cloud. We also answered a few frequently asked questions about k6’s capabilities and how to do correlation in k6.

How to load test a GraphQL API built with Hasura using k6 (k6 Office Hours #28)

Fri, 17 Sep 2021 13:58:42 +0200

My co-host Simme and I had invited Adron Hall from Hasura to come talk to us about how to load test a GraphQL API, but he was unable to come due to unforeseen circumstances. Luckily, Tom Miseur, who is part of the Professional Services branch of k6, was able to step in on very little notice!

Tom has done a load testing engagement using k6 that involved Hasura, so he was able to tell us what it is and how it can be tested with k6. It turned out really well, thankfully!