Finding bugs in an API

Finding bugs can be easy. Sometimes they just jump right out at you. However, the easy-to-find bugs aren't usually the ones that matter. Good testers are those who can find the hidden bugs that matter. Doing this is often difficult and takes some practice. In this chapter, I will help you to get started with creating good automated tests, but before going deep into that, I want to give you some practice at the skill of looking for bugs. In this section, I will help you to set up an API locally that you can use for testing.

I will then show you how to do some testing and exploration of this API and help you to find some bugs in it. I will also show you how to reset the service. This API is meant to break sometimes and so you may need to reset it back to its original state. I will also show you the steps to find one of the bugs in the system so that you can get a bit of an idea of how to go about doing this. Let's dive into this by setting up the...