Learn the core principles and importance of API testing in modern applications.
- What is API testing?
- Types of API testing
- API testing vs UI testing
- Testing pyramid for APIs
- REST API concepts
- HTTP methods and status codes
- API documentation testing
- Testing strategy planning
Master manual API testing techniques using various tools and methods.
- Postman fundamentals
- Creating API requests
- Request headers and body
- Response validation
- Environment variables
- Collections and folders
- Pre-request scripts
- Test scripts in Postman
Implement automated API tests using popular testing frameworks and tools.
- Test automation benefits
- Choosing testing frameworks
- Jest for API testing
- Supertest library
- Axios for HTTP requests
- Test structure and organization
- Assertion libraries
- Test data management
Deep dive into testing RESTful APIs with comprehensive test scenarios.
- REST principles testing
- CRUD operations testing
- HTTP status code validation
- Request/response validation
- Content-Type testing
- API versioning tests
- Resource relationship testing
- Error handling validation
Test API security, authentication mechanisms, and authorization flows.
- Authentication testing strategies
- JWT token validation
- OAuth 2.0 testing
- API key authentication
- Session-based auth testing
- Role-based access testing
- Security vulnerability testing
- Rate limiting validation
Validate API data structures, schemas, and response formats.
- JSON schema validation
- Response structure testing
- Data type validation
- Required field testing
- Format validation
- Boundary value testing
- Invalid data handling
- Schema evolution testing
Test API performance, load handling, and response times.
- Performance testing types
- Load testing strategies
- Stress testing
- Response time validation
- Throughput testing
- Concurrent user simulation
- Performance monitoring
- Bottleneck identification
Use mocks, stubs, and test doubles for isolated API testing.
- Mocking concepts
- Mock servers
- Stub implementations
- Test doubles patterns
- Dependency mocking
- External service mocking
- Mock data generation
- Contract testing
Test GraphQL APIs with queries, mutations, and schema validation.
- GraphQL fundamentals
- Query testing
- Mutation testing
- Subscription testing
- Schema validation
- Resolver testing
- Error handling
- Performance considerations
Test API integrations with databases, external services, and systems.
- Integration testing strategies
- Database integration testing
- External API integration
- Microservices testing
- End-to-end workflows
- Data consistency testing
- Transaction testing
- Service communication
Integrate API tests into continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
- CI/CD integration
- Automated test execution
- Test reporting
- Pipeline configuration
- Environment management
- Test data setup
- Parallel test execution
- Deployment testing
Master advanced API testing patterns and best practices.
- Property-based testing
- Fuzzing techniques
- Chaos engineering
- Security testing
- API monitoring
- Test optimization
- Maintenance strategies
- Best practices