API Testing Foundations
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API Testing Foundations at Linkedin Learning Overview
Duration | 2 hours |
Total fee | ₹1,400 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Intermediate |
Credential | Certificate |
API Testing Foundations at Linkedin Learning Highlights
- Earn a certificate of completion from LinkedIn Learning
API Testing Foundations at Linkedin Learning Course details
- In this course, instructor Dave Westerveld covers the basics of API testing, sharing how to work with several robust tools for testing APIs at scale in an organization
- After providing a primer on web services and important API terminology, Dave shows how to use Postman for some basic API exploration
- He then goes over some basic approaches and methodologies used in testing GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE requests; shows how to approach performance testing using SoapUI, a popular automated API testing tool; and more
API Testing Foundations at Linkedin Learning Curriculum
Introduction
Stand out as an API tester
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
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
API Authorization
Overview of authorization and authentication
Using OAuth tokens
Finding and using bearer tokens
Additional API authentication options
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
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
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