Mastering API Testing: Techniques to Validate Functionality and Performance

Posted by Kathleen Campbell
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Oct 18, 2024
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What is API testing? 

Application Programming Interface (API) testing is a testing method that thoroughly checks the API’s security, performance, reliability and functionality. Requests to the API are sent and responses are checked to make sure that they are aligned with the expected results. There are specialized software tools that can be used to automate API testing, which in turn helps the risk of reducing human error and save time accordingly. 

Faster time-to-market, reduced development costs and enhanced quality are some of the key benefits offered by the API testing method. When issues are detected at the earlier stages of the development process, costly errors can be prevented by the API testing method. API test also ensures that API is able to meet regulatory compliance requirements and is secure.  

 

API testing techniques: 

  1. The significance of post-deployment testing: This helps in understanding how an API is employed and how bugs are detected with its new features or implementation that have been added. As the platform evolves, the process can be automated. 

 

  1. The API performance needs to be monitored accordingly: Automated monitoring helps in identifying performance bottlenecks and detection of regressions. API performance needs to be monitored down to the request and response level by leveraging specific tools. Alerts can be configured, so that they can be triggered in the case of swings in performance. Through this, remedial actions can be taken swiftly. 

 

  1. Automation tools need to be utilized: The API endpoints should carry on with the manual testing process. But, the platform of automation also makes sure that the tests are conducted at scale and can make the API testing process faster. 

 

  1. End-to-end tests are implemented: User journeys and the API calls are mimicked by the end-to-end testing method. This in turn helps to check that the functionality is tested and functioning before making it live.  

 

  1. Endpoint coverage analysis needs to be utilized: The whole endpoint is covered by API tests and all the potential scenarios and states are tested accordingly.  

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