The architecture of web APIs is set up to promote the use of formal or informal test cases. For example, an API has anendpoint. That endpoint has a specification for the inputs that are allowed. If the correct inputs are provided to the API endpoint (request), then the API will return...
A convenient way to run a Lambda function in the cloud is with a test event in the AWS Management Console. Atest eventis a JSON input to your function. If your function does not require input, the event can be an empty JSON document({}). The console provides sample events for a varie...
When building a Web API such as this, “easy testing,” in which a developer can just fire up the Web page and eyeball it to determine whether something is working correctly, isn’t an option here. Well, sure, as pointed out last time, using tools such as cURL, Pos...
Today, it is easy and cost-effective to implement an effective API testing strategy. You don’t need to hire a squad of QA engineers to manually test your API. Your skilled engineers no longer have to write API tests, then visually define, share and maintain them. API testing can now b...
To learn more about endpoints, we will look at another example, this time within the RapidAPI service. This service is anAPI Hubproviding the ability to access thousands of different APIs. Another advantage of RapidAPI is that you can access endpoints and test the work of the API directly ...
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API Testing is different from other testing as GUI is not involved in API Testing. To test API, we need to set up an environment, which accepts input parameters, invoke APIs with those parameters and derive the result. To set up the API Test environment, we need to configure the database...
An application programming interface (API) is a set of programming functions, tools, and protocols that allow external applications to access and interact with either the features or the data of a platform, operating system, application, or service. Effective APIs open the door to greater data sh...
In the next episode, we’ll talk about how to use Angular’s support for automated tests to test this sucker. In the meantime, happy coding! Ted Neward is a Seattle-based polytechnology consultant, speaker, and mentor, currently working as the director of Engineering and Developer Relations ...
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