Technical requirements
To explore the advanced API testing topics that will be outlined in this chapter, a set of technical requirements must be met. We will require the following:
- Applitools for its visual validation. We’ll need to incorporate its SDKs into the testing environment.
- Salt Security’s platform integration will be necessary for AI-driven security testing, as well as detecting and mitigating potential security threats. We’ll also need the APIsec platform for offensive API testing.
- Gatling, a key component for large-scale API testing with parallel requests, must be installed in the testing environment.
- Python, coupled with the requests and Selenium libraries, is crucial for crafting API requests and automating browser interactions.
- We will also need to install American Fuzzy Lop (AFL) for when we cover advanced fuzzing techniques as it can systematically inject diverse inputs into API endpoints.
- The REST Assured framework...
