Plight of Byte

A place for my thoughts, opinions & of course rant, mostly about technology.

Playing make-believe using proxy server

Guide to using proxy server (mitmproxy) to get the response you want

Posted on March 13, 2018

Say, you are developing a feature in an E-commerce web/mobile app. You have to show “Item is out of stock” banner on “Cart” page when an item is out of stock. [Read More]

What if we do exhaustive automation testing?

Will the benefit of covering every possible case using automation tests justify the cost of maintaining such test suites?

Posted on November 1, 2017

Tests Pyramid. Source: Martin Fowler’s blog [Read More]

Is Google the new Apple?

With the launch of numerous devices, Google is trying to beat Apple. Is “Made by Google” making Google more like Apple?

Posted on October 9, 2017

[Read More]

Android Support Library 101

Understand what Android support library is and when to use it

Posted on September 24, 2017

Android support library can be very confusing to some. And the frequent change they make. [Read More]

How to set up blog - Which platform to choose

Part 1 of the series which guides you in setting up a blog, answering your how, what, why.

Posted on September 17, 2017

Thinking of starting a blog and don’t know where to start from. This is exactly where I was before starting this blog. [Read More]