API Testing Foundations

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Dave Westerveld

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01 - Introduction

01 - Standing out as an API tester.mp4

00:38

02 - 1. Understanding Web Services and APIs

01 - Introduction to web services.mp4

02:41

02 - Your first tool Postman.mp4

01:21

03 - Understanding API terminology.mp4

05:10

04 - Types of APIs.mp4

04:51

03 - 2. Getting Started with API Testing

01 - Risks of using services and APIs.mp4

04:14

02 - Install and set up API challenges.mp4

03:11

03 - Exploring an API.mp4

04:25

04 - Challenge API discovery.mp4

02:15

05 - Solution API discovery.mp4

05:01

04 - 3. API Authorization

01 - Overview of authorization and authentication.mp4

02:31

02 - Basic auth in API calls.mp4

03:49

03 - Using authorization tokens.mp4

03:05

04 - Finding Bearer Tokens.mp4

04:32

05 - Setting up OAuth.mp4

04:34

05 - 4. Hands-On API Testing

01 - Testing GET calls.mp4

03:42

02 - Testing PUT calls.mp4

03:25

03 - Testing DELETE calls.mp4

02:46

04 - Challenge Break the API.mp4

01:43

05 - Solution Break the API.mp4

02:31

06 - Understanding POST calls.mp4

03:55

07 - Testing POST calls.mp4

04:27

08 - Challenge Access protected endpoints.mp4

01:32

09 - Solution Access protected endpoints.mp4

02:36

06 - 5. Additional API Testing Consideration

01 - Using mocks, stubs, and fakes in API testing.mp4

03:14

02 - API automation.mp4

03:40

03 - Performance testing.mp4

03:45

04 - Security testing.mp4

02:20

07 - Conclusion

01 - Resources to keep learning.mp4

01:44

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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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