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API Documentation

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API Documentation

• Automation has a very important role in the IT
  world. Faster and short releases are trendy.
  Agile development has gained remarkable
  achievement in the software industry.

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Essentials API Testing

• With the GUI tests, there are several obstacles
  in software testing. To specify a few are there
• It is possible that these Tests can fail
  frequently due to frequent changes in the User
  Interface.
• Supplementary maintenance and refactoring
  efforts.
• It needs a large number of efforts to maintain
  and stable the test process.
• An API inputs to the implementation layer,
  releasing only the objects required by the
  developers. It dwells on the REST methods. The
  meaning of the REST method is to produce, modify,
  and delete the data in the applications database.

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• Requirement of an API Documentation
• API Documentation
• Different types of API tests
• Benefits of API Documentation
• Documentation of any technology is very helpful
  for the acceptance and its operation. Without any
  documentation and the knowledge of any tool, its
  very hard to understand how to use it.
• Reduces user failures.
• Validate useful functions.
• Financial support.

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• Resource Description
• There are several endpoints that can be used to
  access resources. Resources and endpoint
  descriptions are mostly accurate. Besides this,
  the user guide provides detailed information.
• Endpoints
• The endpoint is an important feature of the API
  documentation. To make the request the developers
  implement that documentation. Endpoints specify
  the ways to access the resources. The methods
  intended for acceptable interactions i.e. GET,
  PUT, POST, or DELETE with the resource. The
  endpoint displays the end path of a resource and
  that endpoint doesnt include a common base path
  to every endpoint.

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Types of parameters

• Header parameter These parameters are passed
  into the request headers. They are mostly linked
  to the authorization and covered under an
  independent section of authorization exigency for
  standard header parameters.
• Path parameter These are the part of the
  endpoint. We usually mentioned path parameters
  with curly braces. i.e. /Account/v1/User/UserId,
  in this parameter UserId is the path
  parameter.
• Query parameter It is always mentioned in the
  URL end. Additionally, the Query Parameter is
  affixed to the URL after adding ? at the end of
  the URL.
• Request body parameters A JSON object is
  submitted in the request body several times in a
  POST request.

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Types of API Tests

• Validation Testing It forms one of the last
  pieces in the software development process. It
  nourishes the testing explicitly done to estimate
  the product, its behaviour, and its efficiency.
  In addition, the testing of APIs behaviour to
  access the correct data is a part of Validation
  testing.
• Functional Testing This is one of the extensive
  types of testing. Its purpose is to test detailed
  functions. While testing the APIs for functional
  testing, the estimate of the responses received
  happens against expected responses in terms of
  passing parameters.
• UI Testing UI Tests turn to be more precise.
  These tests check the user interface APIs and
  their connecting parts. In addition, the tests
  are more summarized with a spotlight on API
  health.
• Load Testing Load Testing is mainly used for the
  functional and performance of the APIs under
  load. The test results form the baseline to
  conduct further load testing. In addition, the
  testing includes the API to the maximum possible
  traffic to validate the exact behavior of the API
  under full loads

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• Error Detection It is the test for APIs, which
  includes monitoring, inducing execution errors,
  sending invalid requests, detecting operational
  leaks, etc. falls under this category. The
  testing of these APIs is implemented to ensure
  that the errors are detected, handled as well as
  routed.
• API Security tests Specifically the tests verify
  the APIs performance for accountability from
  external hazards. Some of these tests are
  Security testing, Penetration testing, and Fuzz
  testing. In terms of Security requirements,
  Security testing involves validation of the APIs.
  As a part of Penetration testing, an authorized
  attack launches against the system. It evaluates
  the security of the API. In Fuzz testing,
  assessment of API behavior happens.
• Integration testing In API communication with
  another module of APIs the Integration tests.
• Reliability testing For different
  configurations, the API should display a prompt
  response to look for a response data structure as
  a part of testing

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