Testing Web APIs you own this product

Mark Winteringham
Foreword by Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin
  • October 2022
  • ISBN 9781617299537
  • 264 pages
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Japanese, Russian

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Ensure your web APIs are consistent and bug-free by implementing an automated testing process.

In Testing Web APIs you will:

  • Design and implement a web API testing strategy
  • Set up a test automation suite
  • Learn contract testing with Pact
  • Facilitate collaborative discussions to test web API designs
  • Perform exploratory tests
  • Experiment safely in a downloadable API sandbox environment

Testing Web APIs teaches you to plan and implement the perfect testing strategy for your web APIs. In it, you’ll explore dozens of different testing activities to help you develop a custom testing regime for your projects. This practical book demystifies abstract strategic concepts by applying them to common API testing scenarios, revealing how these complex ideas work in the real world. You’ll learn to take a risk-driven approach to API testing, and build a strategy that goes beyond the basics of code and requirements coverage. Your whole team will soon be involved in ensuring quality!

about the technology

Web APIs are the public face of your application, and they need to be perfect. Implementing an automated testing program is the best way to ensure that your web APIs are production ready.

about the book

Testing Web APIs is a unique and practical guide, from the initial design of your testing suite through techniques for documentation, implementation, and delivery of consistently excellent APIs. You’ll see a wide range of testing techniques, from exploratory to live testing of production code, and how to save time with automation using industry-standard tools. This book helps take the hassle out of API testing.

what's inside

  • Design and implement a web API testing strategy
  • Set up a test automation suite
  • Contract testing with Pact
  • Hands-on practice in the downloadable API sandbox

about the reader

For dedicated software QA and testers, or experienced developers. Examples in Java.

about the author

Mark Winteringham is the OpsBoss at Ministry of Testing, where he teaches many aspects of software testing.

The techniques and models will produce high-quality, reliable APIs and help with many other kinds of testing as well. Read this book!

From the Foreword by Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin, Co-Founders of the Agile Testing Fellowship

Impressive number of testing activities. Read it before establishing a testing strategy for your web APIs.

Anne-Laure Gaillard, ManoMano

Excellent. Automated testing, performance, and security testing strategies are the icing on the cake!

Dr. Michael Piscatello, Ernst & Young

Makes testing fun for the whole team!

Christopher Kardell, DEBS

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