Testing APIs

RapidAPI Launches API Test and Monitoring Platform

RapidAPI has launched RapidAPI Testing. The new offering aims to allow developers to create and manage API tests from development to deployment. It supports API types including REST, SOAP, and GraphQL. APIs can be added from RapidAPI Marketplace and Enterprise Hub.

Brief

Eric Carter

API Management, Testing, Tools

10-23-2020

GitLab Expands Developer Platform Via Peach Tech Acquisition
GitLab

Recently GitLab, an application for the DevOps lifecycle, announced it acquired Peach Tech, a security software firm specializing in protocol fuzz testing and dynamic application security testing (DAST) API testing, and Fuzzit, a continuous fuzz testing solution providing coverage-guided testing.

Announcement

ProgrammableWeb Staff

Testing, Developer Relations

06-12-2020

42Crunch Announces Static Security Testing for Microsoft Azure Pipelines

Today, API security provider and creator of REST API DevSecOps tooling, 42Crunch, announced the launch of their new REST API Static Security Testing extension for Microsoft Azure Pipelines. This extension enables companies to enforce secure API design right from their CI/CD pipeline.

Announcement

ProgrammableWeb Staff

Testing

03-18-2020

Daily API RoundUp: Kontist, Runway Calculator, Doorda, Supadu, ScopeMaster
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Zest.Golf

Fourteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Big Data and Financial. Highlights include the PatherizerEV API for providing route optimization for electronic vehicles, and ScopeMaster API for software requirements analysis. Here's a look at what is new.

Brief

Joy Culbertson

Banking, Testing

03-10-2020

Appdome and ImmuniWeb Form MobileTRUST, an Application Security Alliance

Appdome and ImmuniWeb have announced a new initiative that aims to find and remediate mobile application security vulnerabilities. The joint initiative, MobileTRUST, is an attempt to provide developers with a simple and reliable solution for rapid application security validation.

News

Kevin Sundstrom

Security, Testing

02-13-2020

Yelp Open Sources Fuzz-Lightyear IDOR Testing Framework

Yelp recently announced that it will open source its fuzz-lightyear testing framework. Fuzz-lightyear specifically identifies Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerabilities which present some of the most difficult vulnerabilities for enterprises to systematically defend against.

Brief

Eric Carter

Security, Testing

02-03-2020

Android 11 Adds App Compatibility Testing Features

It is expected that with Android 11, Google will add new App Compatibility features within developer options that will simplify the application testing process. The new features will operate on a per-app basis and display behavior changes based on API level.

Brief

Kevin Sundstrom

Mobile, Application Development, Testing

01-21-2020

API Fortress Introduces Mass Functional Test Generation

API Fortress, an API continuous testing platform, has announced Mass Functional Test Generation. Mass Functional Test Generation allows users to import OpenAPI files and generate a large number of functional tests for those files. The test generator is currently in beta release.

Brief

Eric Carter

Testing, Monitoring, Tools

01-20-2020

10 Popular APIs from the Testing Category
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Diligent developers know the importance of testing applications before releasing them into the wild. There are plenty of APIs that can help the app testing process. In this article we present ten of the most popular APIs from ProgrammableWeb's Testing category to help developers get the job done.

Brief

Joy Culbertson

Testing, Top APIs

01-04-2020

Login VSI Releases New Open API

Login VSI, the provider of application performance testing and monitoring for VDI environments announced today the general availability of Login PI version 3.6. Login PI enables customers to measure the availability of their desktop virtualization platform and the applications that run on it.

Announcement

ProgrammableWeb Staff

Testing, Virtualization

10-11-2019

Daily API RoundUp: Splunk, Quarters, LambdaTest, Keepa, i18n
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Fifteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Voice, Mapping and Storage. Highlights include an API for managing membership subscriptions and APIs for Lambdatest cross browser testing services. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.

Brief

Joy Culbertson

Testing, Marketing, Storage

08-22-2019

First Twitter API Endpoints Available through Twitter Developer Labs Program
Twitter

Less than a month after Twitter introduced Twitter Developer Labs, a program where developers can test and provide feedback on new API features, Twitter has made its first two preview endpoints available under the program. The first two endpoints are GET/users and GET/tweets.

Brief

Eric Carter

API Strategy, Social, Testing

06-12-2019

How Postman can Improve Your QA Engineering Practices

Good QA engineering is all about automation and replication. In this article, we'll take a look at best practices in QA engineering and how Postman can help fill the gaps in your QA practices, including how to inspect API responses, test for specific results, and run tests at the right times.

The Tools You Need for Modern API Development

There is an expanding set of tools that help during every stage of the API lifecycle. So much so that it’s natural to be overwhelmed by the variety of API tooling available. This article takes a look at a number of tools, each of which can help modernize your API development process.

ProgrammableWeb's Most Clicked, Shared and Talked About APIs of 2018: Application Development and Developer Tools
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This segment of the past year's Most Clicked, Shared and Talked About APIs added to ProgrammableWeb covers the Application Development, DevOps, and Developer Tools areas. Tools and technology that helps make a developer's life easier, including APIs from Google, GitHub, and AWS, are included.

Brief

Joy Culbertson

Application Development, Captcha, Cloud

12-23-2018

It's Time For Every API to Have an OpenAPI Spec

In recent years, API specification/description formats, most notably OpenAPI, have become more common and have helped standardize the once-murky definition of an API. This standardization allowed the creation of a broad ecosystem of tooling for auto-generated testing and documentation.

Parasoft SOAtest Release Adds Machine Learning to API Test Creation

The newest SOAtest release aims to improve the test creation process by enabling users to leverage their organizations' existing test inventories and train SOAtest's artificial intelligence engine using machine learning, so it can create API test templates automatically.

Announcement

ProgrammableWeb Staff

API Management, Testing

10-03-2018

Postman Teams Now Available to Users of the Free Postman App

Postman teams and collaboration features are now available to user of the free Postman app. These features were previously only available via Postman paid plans. The Postman 6.2 release also includes Sessions, a new feature that allows teams to set variables that are session-specific.

Brief

Janet Wagner

Testing, API Design

07-31-2018

How and Why Meltwater Rolled Its Own Custom Testing Solution For Its API
API University Meltwater

This post will introduce you to the Synthetic Monitoring concept, which can make you feel more confident about your production system because you find errors quicker. It focuses on improving your Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR), and gathering valuable metrics on how your whole system behaves.

Analysis

Joel Carlbark

Monitoring, Testing

07-03-2018

Run and Test Postman Collections Directly from the Command Line with Newman
Postman Run Button

Newman by Postman is an open source tool that can be used to run and test Postman collections directly from the command line. Among the best ways to use this CLI tool are running Newman with a local JSON file, running Newman with the latest collection URL, and integrating with a CI/CD pipeline.

Brief

Janet Wagner

Testing, API Design

06-22-2018

Parasoft Debuts API Testing with New SOAtest Smart API Test Generator

The latest Parasoft SOAtest release introduces artificial intelligence to convert manual UI tests into automated, script-less API tests. The tools works as a simple browser extension to streamline the development workflow. Smart Generator monitors underlying API calls during manual testing.

Announcement

Lisa Nadile

Testing

05-02-2018

How to Ensure a Painless API Release in 10 Steps
API University

It’s an old adage but it’s true; if you want your API to succeed, treat it like a product. And one of the most important steps in any product’s lifecycle is when it gets released. James Higginbotham offers a 10-point checklist to help make sure that your API release runs as smoothly as possible.

On the Web

Wendell Santos

API Strategy, API Design, API Management

04-08-2018

LoadView Takes API Testing to the Next Level with Webapps Simulating Users
API University

In this part of the API testing series, we take a look at LoadView, a combination monitoring and load testing tool. If your company has a DevOps role, that may be the main user. Otherwise, this tool will most likely be used by a combination of people in testing and development roles.

Review

Justin Rohrman

Testing, Application Development, Monitoring

03-12-2018

Postman 6.0 Introduces Workspaces to Improve Project Organization and Team Collaboration

Postman has released Postman 6.0 which introduces Workspaces, an environment where groups of users can collaborate on API development projects and testing APIs. Individual developers can organize their work in personal workspaces and teams of developers can collaborate in team workspaces.

Brief

Janet Wagner

Testing, API Design

02-22-2018

New Tool From SmartBear Reverse Engineers API Calls Into OpenAPI Definitions
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SmartBear has released a tool that it says is helpful for the testing that API providers might do during the API lifecycle. For example, it can reverse engineer an API definition by inspecting existing API calls. However, the experience is marred by several references to the Swagger specification.

Review

David Berlind

Testing, API Description Languages

01-23-2018

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RapidAPI Launches API Test and Monitoring Platform

GitLab Expands Developer Platform Via Peach Tech Acquisition
GitLab

42Crunch Announces Static Security Testing for Microsoft Azure Pipelines

Daily API RoundUp: Kontist, Runway Calculator, Doorda, Supadu, ScopeMaster
Directa24 Kontist
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Tuxx IBAN validate
Tuxx Country codes - ISO 3166
Doorda
Supadu Supafolio
Affise
PatherizerEVR Route Optimization for EV
Nubentos MedicsenAPI
Runway Calculator
Zest.Golf

Appdome and ImmuniWeb Form MobileTRUST, an Application Security Alliance

Yelp Open Sources Fuzz-Lightyear IDOR Testing Framework

Android 11 Adds App Compatibility Testing Features

API Fortress Introduces Mass Functional Test Generation

10 Popular APIs from the Testing Category
Mocky Gurock TestRail
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RandomUser
RandomProfile
Google PageSpeed Insights
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JSONPlaceholder
Just-API
ING Open Banking Showcase

Login VSI Releases New Open API

First Twitter API Endpoints Available through Twitter Developer Labs Program
Twitter

How Postman can Improve Your QA Engineering Practices

The Tools You Need for Modern API Development

It's Time For Every API to Have an OpenAPI Spec

Parasoft SOAtest Release Adds Machine Learning to API Test Creation

Postman Teams Now Available to Users of the Free Postman App

How and Why Meltwater Rolled Its Own Custom Testing Solution For Its API
API University Meltwater

Run and Test Postman Collections Directly from the Command Line with Newman
Postman Run Button

Parasoft Debuts API Testing with New SOAtest Smart API Test Generator

How to Ensure a Painless API Release in 10 Steps
API University

LoadView Takes API Testing to the Next Level with Webapps Simulating Users
API University

Postman 6.0 Introduces Workspaces to Improve Project Organization and Team Collaboration

New Tool From SmartBear Reverse Engineers API Calls Into OpenAPI Definitions
YouTube Data