What is an API and API Testing?

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What is an API and API Testing?
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What is API?

• It is a way for any two applications to
  communicate with each other. API is a mediator
  which helps two applications to communicate with
  each other which is called an application
  programming interface (API).
• In other words, we can say application
  programming interface is logic which is written
  by a developer using any programming language
  which performs some things that are called
  application programming interface.
• Today with the help of API we are able to book an
  uber and purchase most of the things from an
  online platform.

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API testing?

• Testing the backend part and testing the logic
  that is written by the developer is called
  Application programming interface(API) testing.
• There are many tools that are helping to test the
  application programming interface(API).

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API Testing Tools

• ACCELQ Zero code API test automation on cloud /
  accelQ is a cloud-based, continuous testing
  platform for functional and API testing needs.
  accelQ is offered both on SAAS and On-Premise
  models.
• API Fortress It is Rest SOAP API web service
  and microservices testing platform.
• API Science API science is an advanced API
  monitoring service and easy to use
• Apigee Easily create API proxies and visually
  configure or code API policies as steps in the
  API flow.
• Assertible Easily create tests for web service.

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API Testing Tools

• Citrus Framework Citrus is open source and
  licensed under apache license 2.0.
• HTTPMASTER Universal HTTP testing tool advanced
  support for web APIs and services
• Insomnia (Free and Open source for Mac,
  Windows, and Linux)
• Mockbin mockbin allows you to generate custom
  Endpoints to test, Mock, and track HTTP requests
  responses between libraries, Sockets, and APIs.
• Ping API Ping API is API testing that allows
  you to write test scripts in JavaScript and
  coffee.

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Online Testing Certification Exam

• StudySection offers 3 different levels of Online
  Certifications at
• Foundation
• Advanced
• Expert

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