Design and Build Great Web APIs

The Release Phase

It wasn’t until the release phase that we got around to talking about testing and security. In real life, we’d constantly be iterating through design, build, test, and secure loops throughout the life of the API project. But, as was mentioned in the text, the linear character of the book form meant it made sense to save some activities for later in the cycle.

In this part of the book, we discussed the power of SRTs (simple request tests) and Postman collections in Chapter 9, ​Testing APIs​. We also explored the value of creating your own custom testing library using the ChaiJS framework built into the Postman testing platform. And we created our own command-line scripted interface for executing Postman test collections locally. ...