Course Content
Overview of APIs
- What is API?
- How does an API works?
- Advantages of API
- API vs. Web Services
- API Vs DLL
- DLL VsWebAPIs
- DLL Vs Web Services
- WebAPIVs Web Services
- What is API testing?
- Test cases for API testing based on API output.
Types of API
- Based on declaration
- Based on Invocation
- Based on Availability
API testing
- Introduction to API Testing?
- Definition and Meaning of an API testing
- What does API Testing Involve
- API Testing vs. Unit Testing
- Validation Techniques used in API Testing
- API Testing Steps
- Framework for API Testing
- Test Harness for API Testing
- GUI Tools available for API Testing
- Command-Line tools available for API Testing
- On-line tools available for API Testing
- Best Practices of API Testing
Test Harness
- Requirement of a Test Harness
- What is a Test Harness
- Need for a Test Harness
- Characteristics of a good Test Harness
- Contents of a Test Harness
Requirements of Command Line Tools or scripting
- Useful command line Tools - DOS and Linux and windows
- API testing with DLLs
- Exploring functions of DLL
- API testing with DLLs
- Testing DLL - APIs with programming concept
- Designing a framework for DLL - API testing
- WebAPI testing
- Exploring WebAPI's
- WebAPI Testing using GUI extensions
- WebAPI Testing using On-line tools
- WebAPI Testing using command-line tools
WebServices API Testing
- Exploring WebServices
- Web Service API Testing using On-line tools
- Web Service API Testing using command-line tools
- Web Service API Testing using programming concept
Challenges of API Testing
- What are the challenges in the API testing?
Best Practices of API Testing
- What are the Best Practices of API testing?
Case study
- Writing Test Cases for a API situation requirement
- Executing API Testing on WEB API
API test tools - SOAPUI
- Web Service API Testing using SOAPUI
- Introduction to SOAPUI
- Creating Project
- Importing Web Service Requests using WSDL
- Adding SOAP Requests & obtaining response
- Functional Testing of Web Services
- Creating & Adding Tests for SOAP Requests
- Adding Verification Points
- Creating Load Testing on SOAP Requests
- Running and analyzing Load Test results
- Introduction to Mock Services
- Creating Mock Services
- Running Tests using Mock Services
