Welcome! I'm Lorna: engineer, author and speaker. I'm a Developer Evangelist and I love technology and sharing technology with others. On this site you'll find my blog and links to all the other things I think you (or I) might need to know about me - my opinions are my own and not those of my employer or any other organisation. If you'd like to get in touch, I'd be delighted to hear from you.
From The Blog
30 Mar
2020
HTTPMock for Testing a Golang API Client
I'm working on an API client for some Nexmo APIs and having tests to work through the various responses that the API can return and check that it does what I expect has been very handy so I thought I'd share my thoughts. I've got a bit of a head start here too since the OpenAPI specs have example responses in them that I can grab and feed to the mocking tool I'm using in my tests! Continue reading
15 Mar
2020
Remove Accidental Content from Git Commit
When I teach git I try to show loads of good practice about how to inspect what's staged before commit, etc etc. Good practice is good of course, but knowing how to undo a mess you created is better - and mistakes will happen. For example, accidentally including a
node_modules directory in your otherwise excellent and useful commit. This post will walk you through how to fix the problem without losing any of your work. Continue reading 18 Feb
2020
Teach Your API Test Platform to Send Callbacks
I already wrote about using Prism as an API test platform but I didn't include an example with callbacks so this post is to fill that gap! If you didn't read the previous post, the tl;dr is that Prism is a nodejs open source tool that can take your OpenAPI specification and then do an impression of your live API, validating the API calls sent to it and responding with the example data described in the spec. It can also follow up the API response and send an HTTP request of its own to mock the callbacks described in your OpenAPI spec. Continue reading
