Sometimes I need to access a web page or app from my computer during testing. Usually it's when I'm testing something quickly and don't want to take the time to deploy to a hosted environment or want to quickly share something with a coworker. Lucki...
Testing caching is hard. Testing caching is hard because it's a feature that's designed to be invisible to the user. The user doesn't care if the data they get is the result of an API request, served from cache, served from a CDN, etc. Users want to ...
I Google as hard as I could but never could find a way to set a network proxy for an iOS Simulator. This is where I landed. If there's an easier way I'd love to hear about it. let configuration = URLSessionConfiguration.default configuration.con...
Starting at around version 7 or 8 (I can't recall and am too lazy to look it up right now), the Android OS started putting restrictions on the ability to monitor https requests from apps. Luckily, it's fairly easy to create debug builds that allow th...
I find myself lately in the unfortunate position of doing a lot of web-based UI automation. Which means I spend a lot of time in the inspector tab of my browser's developer tools. I only recently learned you can send a debug command to stop the DOM f...
I use lodash as my goto JS utility library. One of the main reasons is that it's included with Postman and I'm too lazy to use one tool in Postman and a different one elsewhere. What is not immediatley apparent in Postman is that it actually includes...