API Brief And Automation Testing
APIs : API stands for Application Programming Interface. Companies use the API at the business layer to integrate the system with different kinds of existing or new web services. Architecturally we have 3 types of APIs : 1. SOAP 2. REST 3. ASP.NET Currently, most companies are designing their products by implementing REST APIs over SOAP because of its advantages. When companies are working on .Net technology they prefer to use ASP.NET specified REST API. API automation challenge : Though API needs separate testing to check its performance and behavior. So it can become a tedious task for those testers who have complete exposure to web application automation testing, mobile automation testing, desktop automation testing, database testing, etc. How to start doing API testing : To automate API's we have lots of tools, jars, packages that help us to make API automation easier. In this series of blogs, I will try to cover API automation using the python language and j...