Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

Summary

We are at the end of our API testing journey and, reflecting on of this journey, we have learned a few basics of API testing types and API testing approaches, starting from unit test cases, through to API validation tests, functional tests, load tests, and end-to-end tests, along with API monitoring. We have also touched on a few important API errors aspects such as execution errors, resource leaks, and error detection methodologies.

While we were looking at on API testing, we got to know a few critical security vulnerabilities in the REST API world, including sensitive data exposure, authentication attacks, XSS attacks, see-surf (CSRF), DoS attacks, and injection attacks. We did not just focus on attacks, as this chapter introduced ...