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Waheed ud din
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Haafiz Waheed-ud-din Ahmad has been working in the IT industry since 2008. He has mostly worked in web application development and mostly used PHP at the server side. Although most of his experience is in PHP, he is a technology agnostic person and also likes to learn and adapt to new technologies. He also acts as an adviser for startups and new developers. He has worked on Python and JavaScript as well. He likes to experiment with new technologies, and he has also explored Golang, Scala, and Neo4J. He also has a keen interest in data science and big data domain and has worked on D3.js for data visualization. He is not just a technology enthusiast but also likes to solve day-to-day problems by the usage of technology. You can follow him on twitter at @Haafiz786.
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The need for automated tests


As we discussed earlier, in the real world, we can't test every repeatedly after every major feature or change. We can try but we are human and we can miss out on that. The bigger problem is that we may sometimes think that we tested it but miss it and because there is no record of what we tested, we can't know. If we have a separate quality assurance team or person, they will most probably test and keep a record of that. However, in case of a RESTful web service, it will take more of their time or the possibility is that the QA person will test the end product as a whole and not RESTful web service.

Just like the RESTful web service works as one component or one side of a product, there are more low-level components of the RESTful web service as well. Not just endpoints but those endpoints depends on more low-level code. So in order to make our debugging easier, we write tests for these low-level components as well. Also, this way we can ensure that these low...

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Published in: Sep 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781787127746

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Waheed ud din

Haafiz Waheed-ud-din Ahmad has been working in the IT industry since 2008. He has mostly worked in web application development and mostly used PHP at the server side. Although most of his experience is in PHP, he is a technology agnostic person and also likes to learn and adapt to new technologies. He also acts as an adviser for startups and new developers. He has worked on Python and JavaScript as well. He likes to experiment with new technologies, and he has also explored Golang, Scala, and Neo4J. He also has a keen interest in data science and big data domain and has worked on D3.js for data visualization. He is not just a technology enthusiast but also likes to solve day-to-day problems by the usage of technology. You can follow him on twitter at @Haafiz786.
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