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Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

By : Anupama Murali, Harihara Subramanian J, Pethuru Raj
Book Image

Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

By: Anupama Murali, Harihara Subramanian J, Pethuru Raj

Overview of this book

This book deals with the Representational State Transfer (REST) paradigm, which is an architectural style that allows networked devices to communicate with each other over the internet. With the help of this book, you’ll explore the concepts of service-oriented architecture (SOA), event-driven architecture (EDA), and resource-oriented architecture (ROA). This book covers why there is an insistence for high-quality APIs toward enterprise integration. It also covers how to optimize and explore endpoints for microservices with API gateways and touches upon integrated platforms and Hubs for RESTful APIs. You’ll also understand how application delivery and deployments can be simplified and streamlined in the REST world. The book will help you dig deeper into the distinct contributions of RESTful services for IoT analytics and applications. Besides detailing the API design and development aspects, this book will assist you in designing and developing production-ready, testable, sustainable, and enterprise-grade APIs. By the end of the book, you’ll be empowered with all that you need to create highly flexible APIs for next-generation RESTful services and applications.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

An overview of software testing

Any product, be it simple safety pins or majestic airplanes, needs to go through a process to ensure that it solves the purpose of its creation, and so does software, too. Software testing is a process to confirm the accuracy and quality of software through the verification and validation of its purpose, end-to-end.

So, the primary focus of any software product or application is verification (checks for consistency and alignment according to the documented requirements) and validation (checks the accuracy of the system and validates the end user's needs versus the actual outcome).

Let's list a few essential outcomes of software testing and move on to focus more on API testing in the upcoming sections:

  • Assert and ensure that there are no differences between the realities and the expectations of the requirements
  • Assert and ensure software...