This document discusses automating API testing in Java. It covers key topics like what an API is, different types of web services like SOAP and REST, how HTTP works with request methods and status codes, and different approaches to API testing including using software, command line tools, and programming. API testing ensures proper functioning of application programming interfaces and is important for machine-to-machine communication.

1. Automating API
testing in JAVA

2. Application
programming interface

3. API usage
• Libraries and Frameworks
• Operating Systems
• Remote
• Web

4. Web Service
• machine-to-machine communication
• application service
• communicates via HTTP
• transfers data in XML / JSON
• provides object oriented web based interface to a
DB server

5. Web Services
• XML-RPC
• JSON-RPC
• SOAP
• REST

6. HTTP
• Applied level protocol
• has client and server
• main methods - OPTION, GET, HEAD, POST, PUT,
DELETE, TRACE, CONNECT, PATCH
• State Codes - 1xx, 2xx, 3xx, 4xx, 5xx

7. API Testing
• Specialized software
• Command Line
• Programming

8. API Testing
Software
• Software
• Plugins

9. API Testing
Command Line
• Curl
• Bash Scripting

10. API Testing
Programming
• Programming Language
• Build Tool
• Networking Library
• Test Framework
• Object Mapping

11. Fun time