Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

Penetration tests or pen tests

One of the imperatives in API testing is penetration tests, also known as pen tests. Pen tests are the process of simulating cyber attack against a the system or API to expose/determine exploitable vulnerabilities such as intra-network loopholes, XSS attacks, SQL injections, and code-injection attacks.

Pen tests asses the threat vector from an external standpoint, such as supported functions, available resources, and the API's internal components as well.

Let's discuss more details about pen testing—its stages, testing methods, frameworks that support pen testing, and a few criteria for selecting the best penetration tool in the following sections.