Acceptance testing

Knowing that your API has consistent behavior from an integration perspective and being sure that it can scale to peak loads are two crucial aspects of building a successful API product. A third aspect is knowing that the API is consistently behaving according to your business and technical requirements. And that’s where acceptance tests come in. With acceptance tests, you can map the expectations of all stakeholders to the behavior of the API through a set of scenarios that can be repeatedly verified. You can not only test the API for situations where the results are positive but also identify situations where you know the responses contain errors and verify them through test cases. Overall, acceptance tests can guarantee that the API design that you’ve made is being applied and the API behaves according to it consistently. Read on to learn how to make the best of acceptance testing for your API product.

Similar to other types of tests, defining...