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Discussion on: 45 ways to break an API server (negative tests with examples)

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zvone187

Thank you so much Michael! Did you maybe try Pythagora? I'd love to hear your feedback.

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Michael Tharrington

To be honest, I haven't.

I'm a Community Manager here with admittedly very limited technical abilities. 😅 That said, I do feel like I have a decent understanding of what's going on here — you've created Pythagora to automatically generates negative tests to make sure that whatever is being built can handle unexpected inputs and edge cases. And in the process of doing that ya researched a bunch of ways one can break an API server, which is what ya have shared here.

So yeah, no use from me here (yet! ... hey, there's always a chance I get more techie in the future), but I do really think this is a great idea!

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Ah, got it. Btw, it's great that you understood what's happening here without being a QA or a dev. I'd say this is advanced for a non-tech person. Btw, do you have any devs around you who can try out Pythagora? As you can imagine, we're super early so any support/feedback would mean the world to me.

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Michael Tharrington

Thanks a bunch, ya explained it well which helps!

I feel you on the struggle of starting small and trying to reach folks. So, while I can't commit on behalf of others, I will definitely throw the suggestion out there to our devs on the team via Slack and see if anybody is interested. 🙂

And now I'm gonna put my DEV Community Manager hat on for a sec... One thing you might consider with Pythagora is setting up a free organization on DEV for it. You can check out our organization info page to learn about some of the perks of using an org and if you wanna get a sense of what it's like, you can see the DEV Team org page here — just click through some of our posts and you'll see how our org branding appears around them. Using orgs helps with general brand recognition because as folks are reading your posts and learning about Pythagora, they'll also see your logo in places and you have the option to point them to your website/repo/etc. I'll not blab about orgs for too much longer, haha, you can check out the info page and feel free to hit me up if you have any questions!

I really wish you and the rest of the Pythagora team the best! It really does sound like y'all are building something cool.

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Oh nice, did it! Thanks for this, I didn't know dev.to has orgs.

Re sharing Pythagora, thank you so much!!! This really means a lot. Wherever you can share it, I'd be more than thankful.