API Testing

Convener

Kevin Shamoun (@kevinshamoun)
Dave Mehi (@davidmehi)

The following is a list of various products that were discussed that provide, or can assist, with API testing.

Web Based/Cloud
- Runscope
- Celasta
- Loader.io
- Apache Bench (not entirely cloud based)
Self Installed/Self Hosted
- SoapUI
- Postman
- Apache jMeter
- LoadUI (integrates with SoapUI)
Other Tools – Performance/Analytics:
- Fiddler plugins – Stress Stimulus and Intruder 21
- API Change Log – Used to be notified if another site/service has changes to their API change log.
- Pingdom – Used for site monitoring
- New Relic – performance testing
- AlertSite UXM – performance monitoring
- Data Dog – Performance monitoring
- Paper Trail
- Loggly – Log monitoring
- Splunk – performance monitoring
- Redbot – Spec performance tester

Be careful not to write too many tests, this could cause issues and cause tests to break when adding features.
Need to test internal and external resources.
It can be useful to design with mocks so that both sides of the development process (client and server) can build to the mock to expedite the development process. *When stress testing make sure you simulate your production environment, including load balancers, as this will affect your test results.
In general it is good practice to do unit testing as well as integration testing on an API project. They both have value.