Ajay Kumar Singh

SDET Lead

Ajay is a SDET lead from India. He studied computer science at the University of Pune. He enjoys writing code, technical articles, learning new things, and solving problems.

Ajay is part of Sixt since 2018 and taking care of functional and automation needs for the Damage stack of Rent a Car and Share a Car.

Posts by Ajay Kumar Singh:

• What is Swagger, and how does it work?

  Jan 11, 2023 • Ajay Kumar Singh • Engineering

  In today’s software development world, the software development lifecycle depends on APIs. If you are a software developer, you must be integrating APIs into your application.

  APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) allow us to expose the data and functionality to the public for use, and then we can add that data to the applications we build.

  Swagger is one of the most popular tools for web developers to document REST APIs.

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• A technique to achieve test automation within the sprint

  Jun 22, 2022 • Ajay Kumar Singh • Engineering

  In my experience, most of the QA teams won’t attempt to create automation scripts for the features within the same sprint in which they build/develop, and these two activities (creating the feature and automating them) together can easily expand beyond the sprint life cycle.

  First of all, we need to understand why we need in-sprint automation. This will introduce risk as well as technical debt. Any functional testing done within the life cycle of the sprint usually focuses on the feature story itself and not on complete regression of other parts of the product. The automation task for the current sprint features goes to the backlog or for future sprints.

  And, thanks to in-sprint automation, we can easily end all of the preceding points. The benefits are:

  ⁃ Most of the time, the development processes get delayed due to the time the QA team needs for testing. A feature needs to be tested along with others to ensure seamless integration. With the help of In-Sprint automation, we can save time and ensure there are no leftovers or backlogs for the current sprint.

  ⁃ With Insprint automation, we can ensure the business can achieve their development goals in the first build and the ongoing adjustments will require less time since there are no repeat processes involved.

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