Learn API Testing: Norms, Practices, and Guidelines for Building Effective Test Automation

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11. API Documentation

Jagdeep Jain¹  

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Dewas, Madhya Pradesh, India

 

From Chapter 2 to Chapter 10, you learned about a web application, its architecture, authentication, requests, responses, practices, standards, and guidelines for effective test automation. You explored different tools like cURL, Postman, and RestAssured. You now understand the API testing paradigm (internal/external APIs, consumer-driven contract testing, etc.). With this, you learned how to perform API testing. However, you have not covered how the tester is informed about what to test in the API. If there is a change ...