Configuring unit tests
As you develop and change your APIs, you should be unit testing them incrementally with specific unit test cases for the change you have just made or testing the API in general. The API Connect test and monitor tool allows you to quickly generate these unit tests by simply sending a request to the API URL and getting a response. This tool will provide some assertions that you can use as-is, alter, delete, or add to. Let's take a look at how to configure a simple unit test case for an API that you are working on.
Before you start to create your first unit test, you must ensure that you have the test and monitor tool add-on installed. To verify this, log into API Manager. The bottom right tile on the home screen should be labeled Test APIs, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 13.1 – Verifying that the test and monitor tool is installed
Once you have verified that you have the test and monitor tool installed and...
