Exposing and Managing Enterprise Services with IBM API Management

Testing, debugging, and error handling

This chapter describes the various aspects of testing and debugging APIs. It includes an overview of testing and debugging, a description of generic best practices for API error handling, with guidance of how to do unit testing ad debugging to do problem determination and analysis.

This chapter contains the following topics:

•Overview of API testing and debugging

•Testing APIs with IBM API Management 2.0

•Debugging APIs

•Error handling

7.1 Overview of API testing and debugging

API testing is an important ...