Introduction of the APIs workflows and the new behavior-driven development to test APIs with DHC by Restlet.

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Streamline DevOps
workflows with APIs
Marseille, 10/7/2016

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Jérôme Louvel
About Jérôme Louvel
• Founder & CTO of Restlet, API platform provider
• Launched Restlet Framework, first REST
framework in 2005
• Contributor to “RESTful Web Services” (O’Reilly,
2007)
• Member of the JAX-RS 1.0 expert group (2007 -
2009)
• Co-author of “Restlet in Action” (Manning, 2012)
• InfoQ editor covering Web APIs since 2014

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API Use Cases
API centric
software
Mobile app
backend
IoT
backend
Micro
service
Web app
backend
Social bot
backend
Partner
API
gateway
Public
API
gateway
Automated
workflow

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API Team Members
User
Developer Writer
Tester
Operator
API
Team
Manager

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Continuous API Delivery
DEV
API centric
software
QAOPS

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API Project Approaches
Contract-driven
Code-driven
Behavior-driven
Data-driven
Service-driven
API
Project
Test-driven

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1 | Code-first & Back-end Driven
Back-end team
Front-end teams
API
Impl
SDK
Client
A
SDK
Client
B
...
...
3
1
2

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2 | API-first & Back-end Driven
Back-end team
Front-end teams
Impl
SDK
Client
A
SDK
Client
B
...
...
2
1
Mock
2
API

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3 | Collaborative API-first
Back-end team
Front-end teams
Impl
SDK
Client
A
SDK
Client
B
...
...
2
1
Mock
2
API

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Behavior Driven API Development (BDD)
Craft
API
Specify API
behavior
Implement
API
Deploy
API
QA Tester
write test scenarios
write test steps
Software Developer
deploy server mock
pass test scenarios
Software Developer
generate client SDK
implement client
Product Owner
verify expected behavior
write new user stories
Product Owner
define expected behavior
write user stories
Software Developer
design API contract
define client requests
Software Developer
generate server skeleton
implement server
Technical Writer
document user stories
document API contract

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Filip Kolarik
About Filip Kolarik
• Founder and creator of DHC - a tool for API
testing
• API evangelist, lecturer, researcher
• Senior API enthusiast at Restlet since 2015

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• API Testing & Discovery
• Automated API Testing
• API Design
Part 2 - Demo &
Workshop

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API Testing with a Scenario

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Thanks!