Explore software web application architecture, API testing, coding practices, and the standards for better API test automation development and management. This book focuses on aspiring software testing engineers currently working in API testing, and those starting their journey in the field of software testing.

You’ll begin with an introduction to API testing and software web applications involving APIs. The book then moves on to the authentication standards used in the software industry, and the tools, the frameworks, and the libraries used in API testing. As the book progresses, you’ll learn about the test pyramid, how to test an API, what makes a good test script, and various coding guidelines. Finally, you get to write your own API test script.  

Learn API Testing is your pathway to understanding a typical software web application, its requests and responses, and the properties of a good test script. 

What You’ll learn

• Examine practices, standards, and guidelines for effective test automation
• Work with different tools like RestAssured, Curl, and Postman
• Understand API testing paradigm (internal/external APIs, CDCT)
• Review a case study on the industrial software API testing process
• Organize a test framework

Who This Book Is For

API testing aspirants, developers/architects, project managers, and non-technical team members who may want to understand how APIs are being tested.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction to API Testing

Chapter 2: Web Application Architecture

Chapter 3: Authentication

Chapter 4: Tools, Frameworks, and Libra

Chapter 5: Test Pyramid

Chapter 6: Testing the A

Chapter 7: A Good Test Script

Chapter 8: Coding Guidelines

Chapter 9: Organize a Test Framework

Chapter 10: First Test Script

Chapter 11: API Documentation

Chapter 12: Case Study: Shopping Cart APIs

Appendix A: Workstation Setup

Appendix B: Contact Management Application

Appendix C: Shopping Cart Application

About the Author

Jagdeep Jain has more than 15 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing working in various product development software companies. He holds a degree in Computer Science & Engineering. He is a firm believer and advocate of test automation. He has Co-Authored Pro Apache JMeter with Sai Matam.