Top Benefits of API Testing

Top Benefits of API Testing

API testing deals with testing the business logic of an application, which is typically encompassed in the business layer and is instrumental in handling all the transactions between the user interface and underlying data.

It is deemed as a part of Integration testing that involves verification of functionality, performance, and robustness of APIs

Besides checking for the functionality, API testing also tests for error condition handling, response handling in terms of time and data, performance issues, security issues, etc.

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Top Benefits of API Testing API testing also deals with contract testing, which in simpler terms, is verifying the compatibility and interactions between different services. The contract is between a client/consumer and API/service provider.

Clearly, API’s usage is not limited to just one application and in some cases, they can be used across many applications and are also used for third party integrations. Hence, developing and testing them thoroughly is extremely critical.

The following section highlights why thorough API testing entails many benefits in the long run.

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Top Benefits of API Testing

API automation helps in covering a high number of test cases, functional and non-functional. Also, for a complete scenario check API testing requires to run both, positive and negative tests.

Since API testing is a data-driven approach, various combinations of data inputs can be used to test such test cases. This gives good test coverage overall.

Good test coverage helps in identifying and managing defects in a larger scenario. As a result, miniscule bugs make way to production, thus resulting in a higher quality product.

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