STAREAST 2024 Tutorial: Getting Smart on API Testing & Automation

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Monday, April 26, 2021 - 10:00am to 1:30pm

Getting Smart on API Testing & Automation

API testing has become more and more popular as service-oriented architectures have become common. In addition, testing at the API level can be effectively automated to provide maintainable regression tests that work well in a DevOps process. In this tutorial, Jeffery Payne discusses what API testing is all about and how it is effectively done. Techniques and tools are discussed that highlight where in the testing process API testing makes the most sense to perform. Various open source and commercial tools will be demonstrated and the pros and cons of various solutions discussed. Effective mechanisms for automating API testing we be presented. Learn all about API tests and how to automate them in this tutorial. Take home valuable information on what API testing tools are available and where they are best applied while performing testing.

Jeff Payne
Coveros

Jeffery Payne is CEO and founder of Coveros, Inc., a company that helps organizations accelerate software delivery using agile methods. Prior to founding Coveros, he was the co-founder of application security company Cigital, where he served as CEO for 16 years.

Jeffery is a recognized software expert and popular keynote speaker at both business and technology conferences on a variety of software quality, security, DevOps, and agile topics. He has testified in front of congress on issues such as digital rights mgmt., software quality, and software research.

Jeffery is the technical editor of the AgileConnection community (www.agileconnection.com).