API Testing

TLDR; the API From Hell has multiple implementations each of which required bypassing the language and frameworks used in different ways and now I can stress test REST Clients and I’ve found some error conditions in HTTP Proxies.

TLDR; the API From Hell has endpoints for stressful HTTP conditions to expose the observation and interrogation issues in REST clients. Testers need to understand the limitations of their tools and infrastructure.

TLDR; API Challenges can now be used without installing any REST Clients.

TLDR; API Spector is a new free HTTP and WebSocket Testing Tool.

This post and video shows how to use the Simulation Mode in API Challenges.

This post and video shows how to use the Mirror Mode in API Challenges.

TLDR; Release of my open source API Workshops.

This post and video discusses what we can learn from the challenge POST /challenger 201.

TLDR; RestAssured does not support ordering headers in HTTP Requests. But UniRest does.

TLDR; The formal api documentation specifications ecosystems have tools that can help create documentation more easily and use the documentation to automatically validate e.g. Dredd, Swagger and StopLight

I’m working on an API for The Pulper, and I want to write documentation in a formal spec and use tools to validate it. Sounds Easy.