Introduction to API and Database Testing with Specflow and C#

In this post we will discuss about API and database testing with Specflow and C#.

API

API (Application Program Interface) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software and applications.

API Types

Well, Web service is one of the types of API, but as already said, API is a set of routines, rules and protocol used to build software application As that said, API can be

• Web Service
  • Local IIS service
  • Remote web service
  • Cloud web service
• Windows Service
• Library
  • Selenium
  • Nunit etc
• Protocols

Testing API

Testing of API can be done with different tools like

• SOAP UI
• Test Complete
• Ranorex
• WCF Client (Visual Studio)
• Fiddler
• Postman etc

Tool we are going to use for API and database testing

We will be using Visual studio + Specflow + C#

Here is the complete video of the above discussion Thanks for reading the post and watching the video!!! Please leave your comments and let me know if there is anything I should update in this post. Thanks, Karthik KK