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API Testing Foundations

With Dave Westerveld Liked by 502 users
Duration: 1h 33m Skill level: Intermediate Released: 10/16/2023

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The ability to quickly and effectively test APIs is a critical skill for software testers and QA engineers. In this intermediate-level course, instructor Dave Westerveld covers the basics of API testing, sharing how to work with several industry-standard tools for testing APIs at scale in an organization. After providing a primer on web services and important API terminology, Dave shows how to use Postman for some basic API exploration. He then goes over some basic approaches and methodologies used in testing GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE requests; discusses some of the details of performance and security testing; and more.

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  • Lesley Krouwkamp Lesley Krouwkamp

    Lesley Krouwkamp

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    5/5 November 19, 2024
    My experience was awesome. I am enjoying a lot about API's
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  • Olena Zahorulko Olena Zahorulko

    Olena Zahorulko

    Team Lead QA Engineer in the R&D team at Avanquest | Test Management, Test Planning, Agile Testing, API Testing, System Testing, Manual Testing…

    5/5 October 31, 2024
    This is the best course on the basics of API testing I have ever taken! I highly recommend it!
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  • Marc Paniccia Marc Paniccia

    Marc Paniccia

    5/5 October 23, 2024
    This was a great refresher for people who have already learned about REST, but might be out of practice, like I was. What I really loved and what I think differentiates this course from a lot of the others, this instructor really does understand what testing is. He talks about testing risks and walks through some exploratory testing ideas to learn about the API under test. This lets me know that he remains relevant and up-to-date with industry shirts.
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