Chapter 5. Testing a REST Web API
In this chapter, you will learn how to test a REST web API. As we will see, publishing a specific functionality as a REST web API is not simple and involves a lot of corner cases. Fortunately, there are a lot of tricks we can use to make our life easier.
In this chapter, you will learn the following topics:
- How to make a very fast test suite that can run around 150 tests per second to drive a REST API
- Why we should isolate the tests of the REST API from the tests of our business layer and how to do this efficiently
- The main design patterns for our test suite when dealing with REST APIs
The approach
We have already coded a feature for the myCafé application; now, we have been asked to publish this feature as a web API. ...
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