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API Quality Assurance
Quality assurance, also known as QA, is the systematic process of ensuring your API product meets quality standards, business requirements, and the needs of consumers. To understand how API QA works, let’s identify what quality means. In the world of product management, there isn’t a single definition of the meaning of quality. However, it’s generally accepted that quality measures a product’s usability, how much it serves its purpose, and how it follows existing industry standards. Among other criteria, quality measures how a product meets performance, functionality, and reliability.
This chapter starts by defining in detail what QA is and how it’s related to standards, business requirements, and the needs of consumers. ...
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