API Testing Challenges and Best Practices
API Testing Overview
API is an acronym for Application Programming Interface. API testing involves testing programming interfaces directly and, as part of integration testing , to establish if expectations are met for performance, security and reliability. It legalizes the communication and data exchange between two different software systems. A software application executing an API contains functions that another system can execute.
In this article, we will highlight 2 main types of WebService APIs, Rest and SOAP. A user sends a request to the server (request is a predefined set of data sent to a server in a defined format), now when the data server receives this data, it reads/interprets it and transmits the response accordingly.
API consists of different kinds of methods like GET/PUT/POST, and there are many others; however, these three are mostly used for performing API testing.
APIs are helping software applications with day-to-day tasks and fast track data...