31.01.2025.
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Engineer Explains: API Testing is Critical

Testing for functionality, security or scalability before shipping any, especially external, APIs to production is critical.

API testing is a process used to validate the functionality, reliability, performance, and security of application programming interfaces (APIs). It ensures that the API behaves as expected when integrated into applications by verifying that it returns the correct responses, handles errors properly, and supports required performance metrics.

Pooja Mistry, Developer Advocate at Postman‬ explains it more in detail:

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