Learning API Basics and API Testing
Let us understand API Basics and Testing. An Application Programming Interface (API) is a particular set of rules and specifications that a software program can follow to access and make use of the services and resources provided by another particular software program that implements that API. Certainly, it serves as an interface between different software programs and facilitates their interaction, similar to the way the user interface facilitates interaction between humans and computers.
Moreover, an API stipulate how one software program must interact with the other software program. Also, API acts as an alliance between two software applications.
API testing is a type of integration testing which is performed to test the API to validate its functionality, reliability, performance, and security of the application for which API is used. In this testing, the APIs and the integrations they enable are tested.
While there are many aspects of API testing. here is a list-
- firstly, it consists of making requests to a single or multiple API endpoints.
- Secondly, it validates the performance.
- Thirdly, it also response to security as well as functional correctness.
- Subsequently, it also focuses on validating the look
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