These latest months, I have made a lot of research on Testing an API. I dug deep into Mocha, Chai, Postman and Newman. I have also taken a large breath and dived into the Node’s world as it is the quickest way to build an API. The idea of this post, it is to strengthen the ability for non-developer to […]

It is true I have given a title to this post that sounds like a user story of somebody who want to make name dropping. In a sense, it is true but it is for SEO purpose. The story behind is absolutely genuine : I wanted to explore testing on an API with the help of Postman and Chai! But […]

Due to the coming GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), that should come into force on 25th May 2018. Many organisations have to rethink their privacy policy. Indeed, GDPR establishes in terms of storage and exploitation of data a lot of new restrictions and duties. There is a lot of literature and business around this new directive. After meeting some so-called […]

Well as usual, I am just storing a post to keep track of some practices. As I know that maybe in 6 months or 2 years, I may have to do this kind of quick and dirty job again. My issue was the following: I have data stored in a third party API and due to budget cuts, I need […]

For website and even more for mobile, the purpose of all the application’s creation is to create a compelling user experience but this is wishful thinking ! The true difficulty remains to build a better UI prototyping workflow. Making Wireframe is OK but especially for mobile application, the ideal will be to bring Wireframe to life like a kind of […]

Still looking for a simple way to handle a POC to create a straightforward and simple API with a minimum of work. I had 2 main objectives for this POC like in the previous post: This API should populate data for mobile application so I must be able to minimize/shrink the values exposed in the json output. As it is […]

I have looked for many resources throughout the web to find out a small and easy piece of PHP to create a POC for an API. Naturally, I was led to find several sites where you can grab examples made mostly with Slim 2.0 and +. Some examples work, some others don’t. The reason is simple : plagiarism, mostly due […]

On avait vu comment utiliser genymotion comme solution pour tester les .apk sur un parc quasi-infini de terminaux Android. Très souvent dans la phase de délicate de la recette et/ou du testing, il est souvent indispensable de tracer le traffic sur l’application, l’appel aux webservices notamment. C’est à ce moment précis que l’on souhaite coupler cet émulateur d’éventuels outils que […]

Swagger, c’est un assortiment d’outils indispensables pour documenter une API. L’aspect le plus saisissant de cet outil est sa faculté à générer une documentation digne de ce nom , une documentation qui peut-être maintenu et pas seulement par les développeurs. 1. Une fois dans la console, l’installation se fait avec la commande suivante. On fait une installation globale. npm install […]

De plus en plus de site ou d’applications s’appuient sur des APIs, c’est presque une banalité que d’énoncer que ce déplacement est inéluctable. Pour manipuler une API, vous ne manquerez de vous faire assister par la meilleur outil à ce jours disponible sur le marché : Postman. Il existe une extension Chrome ou un application pour mac uniquement. Le fonctionnement […]