Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

An overview of software testing

Any product, be it simple safety pins or majestic airplanes, needs to go through a process to ensure that it solves the purpose of its creation, and so does software, too. Software testing is a process to confirm the accuracy and quality of software through the verification and validation of its purpose, end-to-end.

So, the primary focus of any software product or application is verification (checks for consistency and alignment according to the documented requirements) and validation (checks the accuracy of the system and validates the end user's needs versus the actual outcome).

Let's list a few essential outcomes of software testing and move on to focus more on API testing in the upcoming sections:

• Assert ...