API Testing Foundations

Introduction

• Stand out as an API tester

1. Understanding Web Services and APIs

• Introduction to web services
• Understanding API terminology
• Types of APIs
• Exercise: Map your app
• Risks of using services and APIs

2. Getting Started with API Testing

• Your first tool: Postman
• Install and setup of API challenges
• Exploring an API
• Challenge: Map the API
• Solution: Map the API

3. API Authorization

• Overview of authorization and authentication
• Using OAuth tokens
• Finding and using bearer tokens
• Additional API authentication options

4. Hands-on API Testing

• Testing GET calls
• Challenge: Find the secret
• Solution: Find the secret
• Testing POST calls
• Testing PUT calls
• Testing DELETE calls
• Challenge: Find the 500
• Solution: Find the 500

5. Additional API Testing Considerations

• Using mocks, stubs, and fakes in API testing
• API automation
• Performance testing
• Security testing
• Testing microservices and the Internet of Things

Conclusion

• Next steps