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API Testing Foundations

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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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