Testing Web APIs 1st Edition by Mark Winteringham 9781638351535 1638351538

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• ISBN 10:1638351538
• ISBN 13:9781638351535
• Author: Mark Winteringham 

Testing Web APIs

Table contents:

Part 1 The value of web API testing
1 Why and how we test web APIs
1.1 What’s going on in your web APIs?
1.1.1 Complexity within web APIs
1.1.2 Complexity across many web APIs
1.2 How does testing help us?
1.2.1 Imagination
1.2.2 Implementation
1.2.3 The value of testing
1.2.4 Being strategic with API testing
Summary
2 Beginning our testing journey
2.1 Introducing our product
2.1.1 Introducing our sandbox API
2.2 Familiarizing ourselves with restful-booker-platform
2.2.1 Researching the product
2.2.2 Researching beyond the product
2.3 Capturing our understanding
2.3.1 The power of models
2.3.2 Building our own models
2.4 Congratulations—you’re testing!
Summary
3 Quality and risk
3.1 Defining quality
3.1.1 Quality characteristics
3.1.2 Getting to know our users
3.1.3 Setting quality goals for our strategy
3.2 Identify risks to quality
3.2.1 Learning to identify risk
3.2.2 Headline game
3.2.3 Oblique testing
3.2.4 RiskStorming
3.3 A strategy’s first steps
3.3.1 Picking the right approach for testing a risk
Summary
Part 2 Beginning our test strategy
4 Testing API designs
4.1 How do we test API designs?
4.1.1 Tools for questioning
4.1.2 Expanding your API design-testing techniques and tools
4.2 Using API documentation tools to test designs
4.2.1 Documenting APIs with Swagger/OpenAPI 3
4.2.2 Beyond documentation
4.3 Encouraging teams to test API designs
4.3.1 Getting buy-in and initiating opportunities to test API designs
4.3.2 Taking advantage of existing sessions
4.3.3 Establishing your own sessions
4.4 Testing API designs as part of a testing strategy
Summary
5 Exploratory testing APIs
5.1 The value of exploratory testing
5.1.1 The testing cycle in exploratory testing
5.2 Planning to explore
5.2.1 Generating charters
5.2.2 Charters and exploratory testing sessions
5.2.3 Organizing our exploratory testing
5.3 Exploratory testing: A case study
5.3.1 Beginning the session
5.3.2 Knowing when something isn’t right
5.3.3 Coming up with ideas for testing
5.3.4 Using tools
5.3.5 Note-taking
5.3.6 Knowing when to stop
5.3.7 Running your own exploratory testing session
5.4 Sharing your discoveries
5.5 Exploratory testing as part of a strategy
Summary
6 Automating web API tests
6.1 Getting value from automation
6.1.1 The illusion of automation
6.1.2 Automation as change detection
6.1.3 Letting risk be our guide
6.2 Setting up a Web API automation tool
6.2.1 Dependencies
6.2.2 Structuring our framework
6.3 Creating automated API checks
6.3.1 Automated check 1: A GET request
6.3.2 Automated check 2: A POST request
6.3.3 Automated check 3: Combining requests
6.3.4 Running your automated tests as integration tests
6.4 Utilizing automation in our strategy
Summary
7 Establishing and implementing a testing strategy
7.1 Establishing a strategy for our context
7.1.1 Identifying what’s a priority
7.1.2 Different strategies for different contexts
7.2 Turning a testing strategy into a testing plan
7.2.1 Understanding your context’s testability
7.2.2 Organizing and documenting a plan
7.2.3 Executing and reflecting on a plan
7.2.4 Evolving our strategy
Summary
Part 3 Expanding our test strategy
8 Advanced web API automation
8.1 Acceptance test-driven development
8.1.1 Setting up an automated acceptance testing framework
8.1.2 Creating our failing automated check
8.1.3 Getting our automated check to pass
8.1.4 Beware of traps
8.2 Web API mocking
8.2.1 Getting set up
8.2.2 Building our mocked check
8.3 Running as part of a pipeline
8.3.1 Integrated with codebase
8.3.2 Separate to codebase
Summary
9 Contract testing
9.1 What contract testing is and how can it help
9.2 Setting up a contract testing framework
9.2.1 Introducing Pact
9.3 Building a consumer contract test
9.3.1 Adding Pact to our class
9.3.2 Building the consumer check
9.3.3 Setting up and publishing to a Pact Broker
9.4 Building a provider contract test
9.4.1 Building the provider contract test
9.4.2 Testing out a change
9.5 Contract testing as part of a testing strategy
Summary
10 Performance testing
10.1 Planning a performance test
10.1.1 Types of performance tests
10.1.2 Types of measurements for performance tests
10.1.3 Establishing performance testing goals and key performance indicators (KPIs)
10.1.4 Creating user flows
10.2 Implementing a performance test
10.2.1 Setting our performance testing tool
10.2.2 Building our performance test script
10.3 Executing and measuring a performance test
10.3.1 Preparing and executing our performance test
10.3.2 Analyzing results
10.4 Setting performance testing expectations
Summary
11 Security testing
11.1 Working with threat models
11.1.1 Creating a model
11.1.2 Discovering threats with STRIDE
11.1.3 Creating threat trees
11.1.4 Mitigating threats
11.2 Applying a security mindset to our testing
11.2.1 Security testing in testing API design sessions
11.2.2 Exploratory security testing
11.2.3 Automation and security testing
11.3 Security testing as part of a strategy
Summary
12 Testing in production
12.1 Planning out testing in production
12.1.1 What to track
12.1.2 Service-level objectives
12.1.3 Service-level agreements
12.1.4 Service-level indicators
12.1.5 What to save
12.2 Setting up testing in production
12.2.1 Setting up a Honeycomb account
12.2.2 Adding Honeycomb to APIs
12.2.3 Advanced querying
12.2.4 Building SLO triggers
12.3 Taking testing in production further
12.3.1 Testing with synthetic users
12.3.2 Testing hypotheses
12.4 Expanding your strategy by testing in production

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