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Assertible
Company blog · assertible.com/blog · on HN as creichertwebprogramming
Assertible is the company blog at assertible.com, writing about web and programming. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “Why we test every single API deployment”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN mentions Assertible as a hosted tool for testing REST and GraphQL APIs and monitoring uptime and third-party downtime. Comments discuss the service, not any written posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Continuously test your web services. Teams and individuals gain confidence in crucial infrastructure by using Assertible to continuously test and monitor APIs and websites.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-07-25
- Why we test every single API deployment2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-10-27
- Testing an API using Swagger2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-05-10
What Hacker News says?
I'd be interested to know this as well. I've been solving this problem while building Assertible; generate a suite of API tests from a Swagger spec: https://assertible.com/blog/testing-an-api-using-swagger
Comment linking /blog/testing-an-api-using-swagger
on “Show HN: Insomnia REST Client now open-source”Submitted Show HN: Continuously testing Heroku GitHub deployments as a story · 12 points
HN discussionWhat was the reasoning to use node ? Also UI would have been nice could be a good open source competitor to https://assertible.com
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on “Codeless GraphQL, REST testing”Submitted Automating QA Pipelines for Heroku Review Apps as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI've used plain Stripe for SaaS product payments with two products (most recently https://assertible.com ) Stripe is very simple and has a very high quality API. They recently made some improvements to their dashboard for subscription management. I've never used a service on top of Stripe for handling payments but I'd love to hear what others use.
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on “Ask HN: How do you deal with recurring payments?”Submitted Show HN: Automated post deployment testing for any GitHub repo as a story · 6 points
HN discussionAssertible ( https://assertible.com ) can do this. Designed to be a simple API testing solution with flexible automation and monitoring. Disclaimer - I am a founder.
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on “Ask HN: Tools that can notify us when our REST API call fails”Submitted Creating email templates with React components as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI'm trying to make web service testing better with Assertible ( https://assertible.com ). Our motivations: - For many small-medium sized organizations,developers manually test changes deployed to production and staging environments even if automated testing is already in place. - Automated testing of a web service is much quicker and less error-prone then testing many workflows separately. - Automating checks for se…
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on?”Submitted Show HN: Assertible – Test and monitor your production APIs as a story · 6 points
HN discussionCurrently, assertible supports: - HTML validation - 404 link check - page contains "text" (some arbitrary user-configured text) - status code (200 by default) - json validation - max response time You can find more information here: https://assertible.com/blog/simplified-assertions-for-testin... We're looking into building out more assertions so definitely let us know if there is a particular type of test you'd like…
Comment linking /blog/simplified-assertions-for-testing-web-services
on “Show HN: Continuously testing Heroku GitHub deployments”Submitted Show HN: Automate QA Pipelines for Heroku Review Apps as a story · 5 points
HN discussionLink to the post: https://assertible.com/blog/test-every-single-api-deployment
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on “Why (and how) we test every single API deployment”Submitted How we continuously test all API releases as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSome services I'm looking at: Pingdom - https://www.pingdom.com/ Assertible - https://assertible.com/ Also Application Insights, but it was down during the outage. We can also roll out our own on AWS Lambda or something, but I'd rather not.
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on “Ask HN: Test uptime for your API / Service? Get notified of 3rd party downtime?”Submitted Why we test every single API deployment as a story · 5 points
HN discussionBlog post: https://assertible.com/blog/how-to-run-api-integration-tests... The "Codeless" part is of course referring to the tests themselves, which are defined in Assertible. Basically, ngrok is used to create a dynamic localhost tunnel to the web app which is built and run on CI. The dynamic ngrok URL is passed to an Assertible trigger which will run the API tests when executed. Using this method allows you to reu…
Comment linking /blog/how-to-run-api-integration-tests-on-ci
on “Show HN: Codeless API Integration Testing on Travis CI Using Assertible”Submitted Testing an API using Swagger as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why you should add API testing to your continuous integration pipeline as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted 7 HTTP methods every web developer should know and how to test them as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: View API test results on GitHub status checks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Techniques for writing reliable API tests and QA automation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Web app health directly on GitHub pull requests as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Effortless post deployment testing with GitHub as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Testing and monitoring in production – your QA is incomplete without it as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to improve automated QA for web services as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: View Your AWS Events in Slack via Lambda as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted API security testing – tips to prevent getting pwned as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Testing in production – your QA is incomplete without it as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Test and monitor your API Gateway endpoints with Assertible as a story · 1 points
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