API Testing

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REST API Error Handling - Problem Details Response

REST API Error Handling - Problem Details Response

I have been a REST API developer for many years and helped many companies to create APIs. One of the areas that are key to building a successful API is the error handling/response. Some time ago I wrote about the "REST API Error Handling Best Practices" which »
Why API Testing is Important in Your Development Process

Why API Testing is Important in Your Development Process

One of the most common ways to see companies benefiting from API monitoring is in production — making sure those live API endpoints are up, fast and returning the data that’s expected (for this, you can use any of these tools). By monitoring production endpoints, you’re in the loop »

Webhooks role in the API World

What is a webhook? The main advantage of the webhooks pattern is that your application doesn’t have to make periodic calls to APIs while it’s waiting for changes. Instead, APIs will call your application on a specific endpoint informing that something interesting has happened. What’s missing is »
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Architects, Developers and Testers be aware, Micro-services coming your way!

Background As developers many years ago, we began by using simplified systems in which small, individual, properly defined tasks were undertaken one per time. However, our clients grew dissatisfied, and began demanding for multi-purpose services that solved many issues simultaneously. Well, soon enough, we had morphed into a complex multi-purpose »

API Driven Development (ADD)

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) form a crucial role in the application economy and are the foundation of modern applications. Previously existing software development methods prevented development teams from paying more attention to API design, the release periods were lengthy and customer feedback was limited to the operation of the system »

REST APIs and their Gain Added Importance on the Rise in Application Integration Design

If you are unfamiliar with the term REST API and you need further explanation - in a nutshell, the term represents any web services using the REST architecture that involves reading a designated Web page that contains an XML\JSON file. The media that goes processed through the REST (Representational »

The Rise of REST API

What is Rest API? REST (Representational State Transfer) is a design style, and a way to deal with interchanges that is regularly utilized as a part of the improvement of Web administrations. The utilization of REST is regularly favored over the more heavyweight SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) style in »