Category: API Testing

Web and Mobile API Testing: A Detailed guide

Introduction Today, most applications are built using APIs. We have seen the rise of microservices and serverless computing, with each service being a small component that can be deployed independently and scaled as needed. This has also led to more integration points between applications, which brings us back to API testing. API testing is a vital part of the software development process. It’s a black box testing technique that checks how two applications communicate with each other, ensuring that they work as expected. It can be used to test backends…

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Postman Migration – 3 Best Ways to Level Up Your API Testing

Postman Migration in API Testing

API testing plays an integral role in test automation,  especially in the CI/CD process to ensure short release cycles and frequent changes. With API testing, app development teams no longer need to maintain scripts following the changes in the application under test’s UI.  Postman is a well-known tool for API development, testing, and management that is trusted by QA professionals. With Postman’s robust capabilities, a vastly growing community of developers has chosen this tool to be their primary API testing tool. Although it was first developed as a side project…

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The Essential Guide To API Testing | 2022 Updated

The-Essential-Guide-To-API-Testing

Overview API testing, or Application Programming Interfaces testing is a kind of software testing that involves verifying and validating APIs and Web services. It’s also a part of integration testing which determines whether the developed APIs meet the tester’s pre-established expectations, such as functionality, reliability, performance, or security. API testing is entirely different from testing. While GUI testing mainly focuses on the functions of an application that are visible to the users, API testing primarily centers on the logic layer of the software architecture. Learn more: Introduction to API Testing…

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Getting Started with REST API & RESTful Web Services Testing

REST API & RESTful web services explained REST API, which stands for representational state transfer application programming interface. Some of the simplest questions that might come up when you’re first starting to understand REST API is, what is being represented exactly, what is a state, and what is being transferred. So here in the article, let’s look at all these words individually and learn what they all mean. The word ‘representational’ means there is a transfer of representations of resources and the resources can be pretty much anything that can…

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Introduction to API Testing with Real-life Examples

API Testing Tutorial

What is an API? If you have already known, or if you have googled about, or if you are a little confused about what it says by looking all the technical terms over the Internet, just keep everything inside and the focus on what we are talking. So, API is nothing but it’s an application program interface. As we already said the name itself says it is an interface. How does API Testing work? It is all about requests and responses between the client and server. You want something, you…

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