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The document discusses API testing, which is essential for ensuring the functionality of a website's backend. It highlights two popular tools for API testing: Postman, known for its user-friendly interface and integration testing capabilities, and SoapUI, an open-source tool that supports load and functionality testing. The document emphasizes the importance of automating tests during both app creation and maintenance.

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21_API_Testing

The document discusses API testing, which is essential for ensuring the functionality of a website's backend. It highlights two popular tools for API testing: Postman, known for its user-friendly interface and integration testing capabilities, and SoapUI, an open-source tool that supports load and functionality testing. The document emphasizes the importance of automating tests during both app creation and maintenance.

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API Testing

Let's learn about the different utilities that let us test the functionality of our website's APIs.

WE'LL COVER THE FOLLOWING

• Postman
• SoapUI
• Test Your Knowledge

An Application Programming Interface (API) is a set of protocols, utilities and


rules used in the creation of a functional application. Components in the
application interact using APIs.

The concept of APIs applies to websites as well (e.g. client-server


communication). Therefore, it only makes sense that we should test our APIs
to make sure the backend of the web application works correctly. We don’t
want users sending requests and not receiving a response from our
application.

This testing, known as API testing is part of backend testing since we are not
concerned with the user interface, just the backend jobs. API testing should be
done during app creation as well as app maintenance.

As we’ve discussed before, it is always better to automate tests rather than


performing them manually. So without further ado, let’s dive into some of the
most popular API testing tools.

Postman #
Postman is a great app for testing APIs using HTTP requests and getting
responses. Designed by Google, Postman provides a simple and easy interface,
along with tons of features to help us perform integration testing for
applications backend APIs.
We an create complex suites and run them across different environments
(local or server etc.). The reason it is helpful is that we can test the server-
client functionality on our APIs. Server load testing is essential so that we
know how our website behaves under different conditions and Postman
allows us to do just that.

For further reading, check out this page.

SoapUI #
SoapUI is perhaps the most popular backing testing automation tool. It
supports load testing by running simulated traffic on our website.
Functionality testing is also possible in various environments such as
Development, Production, etc.

Another advantage of SoapUI is that is completely open source, so anyone,


including us can make new custom features. It is also a useful tool for security
assurance, but more on that later.

Learn more about SoapUI here

Test Your Knowledge #

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Next, we’ll be introduced to database testing and security.

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