APIs - what are they? What should we keep in mind when testing an API? What are the benefits of API testing over UI testing?

This episode's guest is Callum Akehurtst-Ryan, a principal test engineer at Chetwood Finance, who is on a mission to educate more testers (and not only) about APIs and their testing. Not only you're going to learn what APIs are, how to test them, or where to start, but also hear Lina and Callum discuss the terms technical vs. non-technical. If API testing sounds like a challenge, then this episode will help you by simplifying sometimes overcomplicated terms and leaving you inspired to learn more.

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• LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/cakehurstryan
• Callum's website: https://cakehurstryan.com/

Mentions and resources:

• Callum's article "A Beginners Guide to API Testing": https://cakehurstryan.com/2023/07/26/a-beginners-guide-to-api-testing/
• Postman: https://www.postman.com/
• Postman's courses on API testing: https://academy.postman.com/page/course-catalog
• Swagger: https://swagger.io/

If you liked this episode and would like to dig deeper into a type of API testing - contract testing that Callum mentions, check out this past episode of Quality Bits:
Contract Testing with Lewis Prescott
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037134/12402778

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