API automation

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Top Benefits of API Testing
API testing deals with testing the business logic
of an application, which is typically
encompassed in the business layer and is
instrumental in handling all the transactions
between the user interface and underlying data.
It is deemed as a part of Integration testing
that involves verification of functionality,
performance, and robustness of APIs
Besides checking for the functionality, API
testing also tests for error condition handling,
response handling in terms of time and data,
performance issues, security issues, etc.
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Top Benefits of API Testing
API testing also deals with contract testing,
which in simpler terms, is verifying the
compatibility and interactions between different
services. The contract is between a
client/consumer and API/service provider.
Clearly, APIs usage is not limited to just one
application and in some cases, they can be used
across many applications and are also used for
third party integrations. Hence, developing and
testing them thoroughly is extremely critical.
The following section highlights why thorough API
testing entails many benefits in the long run.
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Top Benefits of API Testing
API automation helps in covering a high number of
test cases, functional and non-functional. Also,
for a complete scenario check API testing
requires to run both, positive and negative
tests.
Since API testing is a data-driven approach,
various combinations of data inputs can be used
to test such test cases. This gives good test
coverage overall.
Good test coverage helps in identifying and
managing defects in a larger scenario. As a
result, miniscule bugs make way to production,
thus resulting in a higher quality product.
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