Explaining 9 types of API testing（转载）

转载：https://blog.bytebytego.com/p/ep83-explaining-9-types-of-api-testing?utm_source=publication-search

• Smoke Testing
  This is done after API development is complete. Simply validate if the APIs are working and nothing breaks.

• Functional Testing
  This creates a test plan based on the functional requirements and compares the results with the expected results.

• Integration Testing
  This test combines several API calls to perform end-to-end tests. The intra-service communications and data transmissions are tested.

• Regression Testing
  This test ensures that bug fixes or new features shouldn’t break the existing behaviors of APIs.

• Load Testing
  This tests applications’ performance by simulating different loads. Then we can calculate the capacity of the application.

• Stress Testing
  We deliberately create high loads to the APIs and test if the APIs are able to function normally.

• Security Testing
  This tests the APIs against all possible external threats.

• UI Testing
  This tests the UI interactions with the APIs to make sure the data can be displayed properly.

• Fuzz Testing
  This injects invalid or unexpected input data into the API and tries to crash the API. In this way, it identifies the API vulnerabilities.