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How can API Testing be carried out in a DevOps environment?

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DevOps testing, API testing The Application Programming Interface or API is an important set of tools, protocols or programs that connects applications and servers and helps them communicate with each other without any human intervention. It enables the internet to remain a vast reservoir of interconnected applications that provides various types of services to the users. For example, if one is able to log into popular sites like Quora by using Facebook or Google, then it is validated by APIs that work behind the scenes. Another example is the rating of websites (policy bazaar.com etc) that garner information from relevant websites and provide them on a single platform. Similarly, APIs help mobile applications to interact with multiple elements and environments such as devices, operating systems, memory, processors, and networks. In the absence of APIs, the application running on your mobile will come to nought.   Since APIs play such a crucial role in the functioning ...

How can Continuous Testing impact the performance of APIs?

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Continuous Testing     If a software is what drives our interconnected world, then API, or the Application Programming Interface, is the glue that makes it happen. It helps the software to connect across websites, devices, databases, systems, networks, and frameworks - not to speak of the other APIs. APIs help to keep things orderly, segmented, and integrated into the fast changing digital world. For companies that are increasingly embracing Agile and DevOps models of development, testing and delivery of products/services, APIs play an important role. To put it succinctly an API is a set of tools, standards, protocols, and codes that enable the functioning of a software to its optimal level. Such is the criticality of APIs in the seamless functioning of a software system that continuous testing of the same should be pursued as a part of Agile or DevOps. The complexity and daunting nature of testing an API have meant it is not always executed rigorously. This is p...

5 steps to effectively implement Agile for API Testing?

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Agile Testing Services In a growing data driven world the seamless functioning of software applications is not just important but critical as well. The successful functioning of a software program(s) can help an enterprise in many ways. These can be related to brand building, achieving customer satisfaction, drawing potential customers, and improving the ROI. And yes, not to forget, ensuring the compatibility of the application across devices, browsers, operating systems, platforms and networks. Today, a software program or application can have security ramifications as well given the growing threat of cybercrime. So, if an application gets compromised, it can lead the business to fall foul of regulatory authorities, lose customer trust and competitive edge, and the failure to meet ROI. To prevent these, a rigorous Agile testing of software should be implemented. In this type of testing, Agile testers check for glitches in the application and send the code(s) back to the ...