Need For Learning API Testing As a developer

• As full stack python developer,

  • we need to create APIs with
  • Flask
  • Django-restful
  • We need to consume APIs while building UI Applications using
    • React/Angular/Vue
  • To Automate API testing, we need to know how to test APIs

• Most of the APIs return the data in the JSON Format.

Data Exchange Format

• HTTP supports multiple data formats, the need in the world of api’s is some format which is human readable, simple and occupying minimum size

• JSON is the best fit for this. JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation.

• The data can be split into following categories

  • Simple:
    • numbers
    • text
    • boolean
  • Complex:
    • list/array => Plural
    • object/dictionary
• JSON format is representing the data as name/value pairs

<name>: <value>

• Some examples are

"name": "khaja"
"place": "hyderabad"
"count": 5
"online": true