As this book deals with RESTful APIs, this chapter is intended to take readers through a few essential best practices and API testing principles, along with a couple of testing frameworks. With integration tests (both manual and automated), we can accomplish most critical API testing strategies for distributed applications and help those applications to be production-ready, deployable, and part of CI/CD, as well as to assert their scalability and stability for every release.
The following section introduces the basics of API testing, API testing approaches, their types, and so on.
