Himanshu Mandhyan

Himanshu Mandhyan

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Bruno API testing: a complete guide (2026)

Himanshu Mandhyan

Bruno is an open source, offline-first API client that stores your API collections as plain text files inside your Git repo. It gives you a fast GUI for building and sending REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and WebSocket requests, plus a scripting layer for writing tests against the responses. This guide covers Bruno API […]

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What Is a Test Bed in Software Testing? A Practitioner’s Guide

Himanshu Mandhyan

Every tester has lost an afternoon to an environment that would not behave. The code was fine. The suite was fine. The problem was the ground the tests ran on. That ground has a name, and getting it right is quietly one of the highest leverage things a QA team can do. […]

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Bug Life Cycle in Software Testing: Every Stage Explained (2026)

Himanshu Mandhyan

The bug life cycle (defect life cycle) is the sequence of states a defect moves through from discovery to closure. Typical stages are New, Assigned, Open, Fixed, Retest, and Closed, with additional paths for Reopened, Deferred, or Rejected bugs. It gives teams a shared, trackable workflow for managing defects to resolution. Every […]

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Levels of Software Testing: A Complete Guide with Examples (2026)

Himanshu Mandhyan

Software testing has four levels, each answering a different question. Unit testing asks whether a single function works in isolation. Integration testing asks whether connected components communicate correctly – the layer where Keploy automates test generation from real API traffic. System testing validates the full application end-to-end, while acceptance testing asks whether […]

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API Testing Tools: The Complete Guide for 2026

Himanshu Mandhyan

Last updated: August 2026 API testing tools let teams validate, automate, and monitor APIs without writing every test by hand. They send requests, assert on responses, mock dependencies, and run inside CI/CD. Alongside traditional options like Postman, REST Assured, and SoapUI, open-source automation tools such as Keploy are gaining ground, with Keploy […]

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What Is API Design? Principles, Best Practices & Patterns (2026)

Himanshu Mandhyan

I’ve seen teams burn weeks untangling API messes that could have been avoided with a couple of days of upfront thinking. Endpoints named inconsistently, versioning added as an afterthought, error responses that just say "something failed" all of it traceable back to the same root cause. Nobody sat down and actually designed […]

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10 Types of API Testing Explained with Examples (2026)

Himanshu Mandhyan

The main types of API testing are functional, integration, load and performance, security, validation, contract, and fuzz testing, each checking a different dimension of how an API behaves. Covering them by hand is slow, which is why teams lean on automation to keep up. Keploy generates tests and mocks across these scenarios […]

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API Testing Services: Solutions, Process, Tools & Best Providers

Himanshu Mandhyan

API testing services help organizations validate API functionality, performance, security, integrations, and reliability across the software lifecycle. These services are typically delivered by QA teams, testing vendors, or automation platforms to ensure APIs work correctly in real-world environments. APIs are no longer just backend infrastructure—they are the backbone of modern digital products. […]

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Software Testing Strategies: Types, Examples, and Best Practices for Dev Teams

Himanshu Mandhyan

A software testing strategy defines how, when, and what to test across a project, spanning test levels, functional and non-functional types, and approaches like automation, risk-based, and shift-left testing. Within the automation piece, Keploy reduces manual effort on API and integration tests by generating both the tests and their mocks from real […]

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API Observability: What I Learned While Debugging APIs in Production

Himanshu Mandhyan

APIs rarely fail loudly. Most of the time, they break quietly while dashboards stay green. These silent failures are often the hardest to detect and the most damaging for users. I learned this while dealing with real production traffic. Everything looked normal until users started complaining. Let’s explore more about how this […]