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API Testing Foundations

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LinkedIn Learning
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Free Trial Available
Languages

English
Certificate

Certificate Available
Effort

1 hour 34 minutes
Sessions

Self-Paced
Level

Beginner

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Learn the basics of how APIs work and how to do API testing. Learn strategies for testing APIs at scale in an organization.

Syllabus

Introduction

Standing out as an API tester

1. Getting Started with API Testing

Calling an API
Your first tool: Postman
Introduction to web services
Types of APIs
Risks of using services and APIs

2. Exploratory API Testing

Install and set up API challenges
Exploring an API
Challenge: API discovery
Solution: API discovery

3. API Authorization

Overview of authorization and authentication
Basic auth in API calls
Using authorization tokens
Finding Bearer Tokens
Setting up OAuth

4. Hands-On API Testing

Testing GET calls
Testing PUT calls
Testing DELETE calls
Challenge: Break the API
Solution: Break the API
Understanding POST calls
Testing POST calls
Challenge: Access protected endpoints
Solution: Access protected endpoints

5. Additional API Testing Consideration

Using mocks, stubs, and fakes in API testing
API automation
Performance testing
Security testing

Taught by

Dave Westerveld

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4.7 rating at LinkedIn Learning based on 987 ratings

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