Hey everyone, long time no see!

2022 had been an eventful year for me, full of enriching experiences that I would love to share about (someday :P), and the start of 2023 seems no less - getting selected for the Keploy API Fellowship in the first month itself!

For those who might not be familiar, Keploy is a company that is behind the E2E (End to End) software testing framework of the same name. According to the Keploy Official Documentation:

Keploy is an open source e2e testing toolkit for Developers that creates test-cases and data mocks from API calls, making releases faster and highly-reliable.

Now that the training period is almost over, I write this blog as a summary about my experience!

The total program structure

The training program spanned a total of six sessions, each session building on the previous ones - so you have to be attentive! This was the flow of our sessions:

Session 1: About HTTP, HTTPS and APIs

Session 2: A deep dive into APIs and API Requests

Session 3: A hands-on introduction to API requests using basic JavaScript

Session 4: Using ExpressJS to make APIs

Session 5: API Testing using POSTMan and introduction to Keploy

Session 6: Keploy's workflow for handling E2E testing using the Record and Replay Mechanism.

Each session had a pertaining task to it, either technical (creating a GitHub Repo) or content-based (create a blog/article on a platform). Attendance was taken towards the end of each session.

Learnings

As a RAD/RAF full-stack developer who had heard about Keploy before, the first 4 sessions were not that hard to understand. The concepts were pretty nicely explained by the DevRel who were pretty proficient at what they do - special mention to Animesh Pathak, Hardik Kumar and Ankit Kumar!

Then came the fifth and sixth sessions, where I learnt about Keploy. I was awestruck by the simple and elegant design that the product entails. I also was curious about how their testing mechanism scales in Cloud-based deployments, and pestered Animesh with questions :-P.

After the six sessions were over, I understood Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), the significance of Stateful End-to-End testing that ensures that requests of the same type elicit same responses for deterministic results! More than that, I actually picked up on the neat little tricks and productivity hacks that they did to get their demos up and running.

It was an insightful training period indeed!