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An introduction to RESTful APIs

Alicia Marianne on October 03, 2023

Do you know what is an API? And how to test it? What kind of test that you can do when testing it? Tools that can help you to test it? How put this...
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Luis Carlos Galvão de Oliveira

using tests I've more confidence to delivery my tasks, It's not a guarantee for a software without bugs but it's certainly a way to reduce them

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Melina Schneider

wow! this is gonna save me! ahhaha thx

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Fernando Melo

The only frameworks for testing I used are Insomnia and Postman, I might take a look in those others... Great article! congrats

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oChefDev

How do you prioritize which types of tests to run when time and resources are limited, and could you provide a real-world example to illustrate your approach?

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Alicia Marianne

My suggestion is to prioritize the main workflow of your API, after that, you can start to think in the other scenarios.

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Sacha Wharton

Fantastic series Alicia! Great job! Thank you for putting it together.

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Canhassi

Nice article

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Cherry Ramatis

loved the didactics really cool article congrats! I'm currently testing the usage of the playwright library for e2e testing (similar to cypress)

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SamucaDev

Really good article.

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Lais Fagundes

tão necessário! Arrasou na didática! Ansiosa pelos próximos!

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Liyas Thomas

If you'd like to try an online API development / testing platform - we're building Hoppscotch.io.

GitHub:

GitHub logo hoppscotch / hoppscotch

👽 Open source API development ecosystem - https://hoppscotch.io

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Boby Tiwari

💯

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Jesus, Julio Cesar Soares de

Hi, you need to continue this post with a test code example, should be awesome!
Thanks

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