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Testing APIs in eCommerce Sites: Surveillance - Be Ever Vigilant

Implementing quality tools under high pressure and short deadline conditions requires development and quality organizations that stand firm on the issues of process integrity. When done rigorously, this provides a resource and a path for software quality...

Published 4 Aug 2010 11:58 AM by John Lunsford

Filed under: testing, web site, Web Services, API, API testing, eCommerce testing, eCommerce

Testing APIs in eCommerce Sites: Sanity Checks - Find Problems Before They Find You

The quality of the code in an eCommerce API tends to suffer from a time crunch-driven perception that there isn’t enough time or money to do a proper job of Software Quality Assurance (SQA), so the engineers will just have to fix the code problems...

Published 4 Aug 2010 11:36 AM by John Lunsford

Filed under: testing, web site, Web Services, API testing, eCommerce testing, eCommerce

Testing APIs in eCommerce Sites: From Tribal Knowledge to API Documentation

eCommerce takes salesmanship to its logical end point: selling products and services with no more customer interaction than browsing a web site. The continuous effort to capture and hold the customer’s interest that this requires has placed a significant...

Published 3 Aug 2010 5:46 PM by John Lunsford

Filed under: API, API testing, process documentation, eCommerce testing, eCommerce

Load Testing Flash Remoting Applications in SoapUI

Recently, I performed a load test on a Flash remoting application using SoapUI. Currently, SoapUI doesn’t have support for the AMF format used to communicate with the gateway, but fortunately a helpful blog post illustrates a good starting point...

Published 15 Dec 2009 4:41 PM by JoshGraham

Web Services API Testing Books

Here are a couple of books that you might find useful when developing your web services API testing strategy... The Art of Application Performance Testing by Ian Molyneaux - This book was just released and I found it an outstanding conceptual overview...

Published 15 Oct 2009 10:49 PM by Jim Zuber

Web APIs - Growth, Management, Protocols, Testing Tools

Over the past month I have had the opportunity to look at a number of web services testing tools, the structure of various publicly facing Web Service APIs, and a number of companies who are offering web services API management. Web API’s have long...

Published 12 Oct 2009 12:52 PM by Jim Zuber

Filed under: testing, Web Services, API

Load Testing REST Web Services with SoapUI

Over the past month I have used SoapUI to load test a REST web services implementation. This testing occurred during the transition of SoapUI between versions 2.5.2 and 3.0. Unfortunately, 2.5.2 had known issues with load testing and 3.0 still wasn’t...

Published 30 Aug 2009 11:30 PM by Jim Zuber

Filed under: web site, REST, Web Services, SoapUI, load testing

Functional Testing REST Web Services With SoapUI

As part of a customer contract, over the past 6 weeks QualityLogic's web services testing team utilized SoapUI to develop an automated functional conformance test for a REST API that provides account management services to a variety of related web...

Published 21 Jun 2009 8:22 PM by Jim Zuber

Filed under: testing, REST, Web Services, SoapUI

Mindtouch Open Source Wiki

When I am not toiling away on QualityLogic's testing projects, my passion is hiking in the outdoors. As part of that passion, about 5 years ago I developed a classic ASP web site ( www.localhikes.com ) that has now become one of the most visited outdoors...

Published 1 May 2009 10:29 PM by Jim Zuber

Filed under: Mindtouch, Localhikes, Deki, open source

Web API Testing Blog Welcome

Welcome to the Web API Testing Blog! In my role as QualityLogic's CTO, I provide guidance to our engineering and testing services groups on testing strategies for web APIs. My intent is to use this blog to share my insights into web API testing as...

Published 22 Apr 2009 9:41 PM by Jim Zuber

Filed under: testing, web site, Welcome, website

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