TestBash World 2022: Panel Discussion - Talking About API Testing with Jaswanth Manigundan, Pricilla Bilavendran & Ali Haydar

In this session, Jenna Charlton will be joined by three testing experts to discuss all things API Testing:

  • Jaswanth Manigundan (@jaswanth) has been a very active member of the Ministry of Testing Community, from giving talks at previous TestBashes to being part of our themed weeks too. Jaswanth is a lead test automation engineer working as a part of the QE practice at Culture Amp led by the legendary Anne-Marie Charret.
  • Pricilla Bilavendran (@pricilla09) is an active community contributor through her blogs, webinars and workshops. Pricilla is from Malaysia and is a passionate test engineer with a decade of experience in Quality Assurance. For the past three years, she has been in a relationship with APIs and never stopped exploring and playing around with APIs.
  • Ali Haydar (@ahaydar) a senior software engineer, team leader and an AWS community builder is excited by solving real-world problems, mainly with technology (sometimes it starts operationally then gets automated). Ali does not know many things, but he does know how to learn them efficiently and rapidly.

We’ll use this Club thread to share resources mentioned during the session and answer any questions we don’t get to during the live session.

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Questions from Slido:

From Oluwatomisin Onabajo:

How do you automate an API response that returns a html link which should be opened on a web page and what tool did you use?

From Stacy Morgan:

What do you feel about coverage in API testing? What should we aim for? EG 2xx,401, 403, error messages, contracts

From Anonymous:

Can you please share your experience with Api automation testing and automation tools?

What’s you position on API automation ?

Do you have any templates you can share for api test strategy docs ?

If you could create any API in your current role what would it do?

What is the single best resource you know for learning to do API testing.

From Jen Bauer:

What strategies do you recommend for working with APIs that have poor or nonexistent documentation?

From Lavanya Mohan:

What are some common challenges that we need to be aware of while getting started on API testing of system with a large number of micro services?

From Liz Garcia:

Can you talk about any experience on using API testing to do load/performance testing?

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Hi @sarahk , thanks for posting this.

Is this the list of all unanswered questions ? Just wanted to confirm before taking a shot at answering them. Ta!