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The spectrum of tech startups is wider than ever in today’s ever-changing, globalized IT industry. But while tech companies come in all shapes and sizes, they still have one thing in common – they all need exceptional testers.

What is API Testing? API testing ensures that application programming interfaces (APIs) function correctly, securely, and reliably. However, testers often face challenges such as poor documentation, complex API sequencing, frequent schema changes, and integration issues. Understanding these API testing challenges and how to solve them can significantly improve test efficiency and software quality. Welcome back to another interesting blog about API testing. You might need to start testing your APIs at some point, and there are some considerations before getting started.

Database testing, or DB testing, is a significant and complementary part of the testing process. It’s a multi-step, multi-angle approach to assessing the database and how it functions with the user interface and maintains data storage, integrity, retrieval, and updating.

Hopefully, you’ve enjoyed the previous articles on everything related to APIs: what they are, their life cycle, and where this kind of testing fits in the development process. This blog post will focus on the different types of API testing, along with detailed validations that need to be performed.

As QA Engineers, we create our test cases/test scripts based on customer-centric requirements; sometimes, we further simulate customer data to support specific scenarios (inductive reasoning). For example, consider the Christmas season, the number of holiday movies, seasonal shopping, and figurines.