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Digital Transformation and Modernization with IBM API Connect

By : Bryon Kataoka, James Brennan, Ashish Aggarwal
Book Image

Digital Transformation and Modernization with IBM API Connect

By: Bryon Kataoka, James Brennan, Ashish Aggarwal

Overview of this book

IBM API Connect enables organizations to drive digital innovation using its scalable and robust API management capabilities across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. With API Connect's security, flexibility, and high performance, you'll be able to meet the needs of your enterprise and clients by extending your API footprint. This book provides a complete roadmap to create, manage, govern, and publish your APIs. You'll start by learning about API Connect components, such as API managers, developer portals, gateways, and analytics subsystems, as well as the management capabilities provided by CLI commands. You’ll then develop APIs using OpenAPI and discover how you can enhance them with logic policies. The book shows you how to modernize SOAP and FHIR REST services as secure APIs with authentication, OAuth2/OpenID, and JWT, and demonstrates how API Connect provides safeguards for GraphQL APIs as well as published APIs that are easy to discover and well documented. As you advance, the book guides you in generating unit tests that supplement DevOps pipelines using Git and Jenkins for improved agility, and concludes with best practices for implementing API governance and customizing API Connect components. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to transform your business by speeding up the time-to-market of your products and increase the ROI for your enterprise.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Section 1: Digital Transformation and API Connect
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Section 2: Agility in Development
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Section 3: DevOps Pipelines and What's Next

Testing and monitoring hooks

In Chapter 13, Using Test and Monitor for Unit Tests, we learned how to use the API Connect's Test and Monitor add-on feature that generated unit tests automatically for your APIs. Having the ability to create test cases is valuable to the overall success of your DevOps process. In the pipeline shown previously in Figure 14.1, there is one stage where you execute test cases. You will be utilizing the test cases from Test and Monitor to validate your APIs. Running test cases validates that your unit test ran successfully and allows you to promote to the next stage of deployment.

In order to make those test cases available for inclusion in your DevOps pipeline, you will need to generate hooks for the specified test cases. Here is how it is done:

  1. Click on Test APIs on your API Manager user interface, shown as follows:

    Figure 14.3 – Selecting Test APIs on API Manager

    This will launch a new browser tab with the Test APIs panel. As you...