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❓ Why and how we test web APIs

Not sure why we need to test web APIs? Need to convice others that we should test? In this first chapter we'll:

1. Describe why testing is valuable
2. Explain why we need to test Web APIs

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🗺 Beginning our testing journey

Do you just want to do some API testing?  In this chapter we'll:

1. Setup a sandbox to practise API testing on
2. Use API testing tools to learn how an API plaftorm works
3. Use models to capture and communicate our understanding

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🥇 Quality and Risk

Want to kick start a strategy? Establish the relationship of quality and risk with your strategy. In this chapter we'll:

1. Share what quality means to users by using quality characteristics
2. Identify risks that impact quality

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📐 Testing API designs

Want to deliver value before coding has begun? In this chapter we'll:

1. Use questions to learn more about a web API design
2. Use API documentation tools to capture web API designs
3. Run sessions to get teams testing web API designs

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🔬 Exploratory testing APIs

Want to know how your web APIs really work? In this chapter we'll:

1. Plan out what exploratory testing we want to do and where and when to do it
2. Analyse an exploratory testing session to learn how a session might be executed

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⚙️ Automating web API tests

Do you want to be able to create automation for web APIs? In this chapter we'll:

1. Explore when automation is and isn't useful
2. Setup and create automated checks for web APIs (Using Java)

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👣 Establishing and implementing a testing strategy

Want to create a strategy for your project and execute it successfully? In this chapter we'll:

1. Create a strategy that works for you and your team
2. Create a plan to iteratively implement your web API test strategy

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🧠 Advanced web API automation

Have some experience of web API automation but want to learn some new tricks? In this chapter we'll:

1. Implement acceptance test driven design for APIs
2. Use mocking to improve web API automation
3. Integrate automation into a pipeline

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🤝 Contract testing

Struggling with integrations between the many web APIs in your proejct. In this chapter we'll:

1. Describe what contract testing is and how it works
2. Implement contracts tests for consumer and provider web APIs

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📈 Performance testing

Need to understand how your web APIs perform under pressure? In this chapter we'll:

1. Plan and execute a performance test
2. Analyse performance testing results

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🔐 Security testing

Does security testing web APIs feel too technical for you? You can already help teams with your current skills! In this chapter we'll:

1. Use threat models to help teams identify threats
2. Advocate for a security testing mindset in a team

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👀 Testing in production

Do you know what is actually happening to your web APIs when they are in use? In this chapter we'll:

1. Plan out how to test in production
2. Implement monitoring tools to help test in production
3. Explore other testing in production options

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