This document discusses test design and automation for REST API applications. It covers topics such as the characteristics of RESTful APIs, test design and coverage, and automation. For test design and coverage, it recommends testing endpoints, request methods, headers, bodies, response codes, headers, and bodies. It also discusses testing search, pagination, versioning, and more. For automation, it recommends tools like Postman, RestAssured, and using object mapping, builders, and JSON schema validation for test data. The presenter's contact information is provided at the end.
Talk given at Typeform for the Barcelona Bug busters meetup.
How to Automate API Testing guides you through a possible API Testing workflow for API Functional Testing exploring different tools and approaches.
API Testing. Streamline your testing process.Andrey Oleynik
Slides from IT talk: «API Testing. Streamline your testing process. A step by step tutorial»
Code on github: https://github.com/a-oleynik/soap-ui
Webinar on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2ALtuCjuUo
DataArt P. https://www.meetup.com/ru-RU/DataArt-Wroclaw-IT-talk/events/246967484/?eventId=246967484 Wroclaw, 2018, February 15
API Testing: The heart of functional testing" with Bj RollisonTEST Huddle
View webinar: http://www.eurostarconferences.com/community/member/webinar-archive/webinar-81-api-testing-the-heart-of-functional-testing
An API, or Application Programming Interface, is a collection of functions that provide much of the functional capabilities in complex software systems. Most customers are accustomed to interacting with a graphical user interface on the computer. But, many customers do not realize the much of the functionality of a program comes from APIs in the operating system or program's dynamic-link libraries (DLL). So, if the business logic or core functionality is exposed via an API call then and if we want to find functional bugs sooner than API testing may be an approach that provides additional value in your overall test strategy. Additionally, API testing can start even before the user interface is complete so functional capabilities can be tested while designers are hashing out the "look and feel." API testing will not replace testing through the user interface, but it can augment your test strategy and provide a solid foundation of automated tests that increase your confidence in the functional quality of your product.
API testing is a type of software testing that involves testing application programming interfaces (APIs) directly and as part of integration testing to determine if they meet expectations for functionality, reliability, performance, and security.
An Introduction To Automated API TestingSauce Labs
As more and more apps are being assembled from a rapidly expanding array of microservices, APIs are the key to accessing these new architectures. That new feature you’re working on will often rely on upstream services that can only be accessed via APIs - so to test the functionality of the new component you’ll need to simulate those services.
While APIs are the backbone of the websites and apps we rely on today, automated testing of them is only starting to grow. Join Patrick Poulin, CEO of API Fortress, as he provides an introduction to API testing, the best ways to test your own APIs using popular tools available today, and demonstrates the orchestration of API tests and Sauce Labs tests as part of a Jenkins build process.
Key takeaways:
-Clearly understand what API testing means.
-Learn about best practices.
-See demonstrations of popular testing tools.
-See API and UI/UX testing implemented as part of a Jenkins build.
Talk given at Typeform for the Barcelona Bug busters meetup.
How to Automate API Testing guides you through a possible API Testing workflow for API Functional Testing exploring different tools and approaches.
API Testing. Streamline your testing process.Andrey Oleynik
Slides from IT talk: «API Testing. Streamline your testing process. A step by step tutorial»
Code on github: https://github.com/a-oleynik/soap-ui
Webinar on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2ALtuCjuUo
DataArt P. https://www.meetup.com/ru-RU/DataArt-Wroclaw-IT-talk/events/246967484/?eventId=246967484 Wroclaw, 2018, February 15
API Testing: The heart of functional testing" with Bj RollisonTEST Huddle
View webinar: http://www.eurostarconferences.com/community/member/webinar-archive/webinar-81-api-testing-the-heart-of-functional-testing
An API, or Application Programming Interface, is a collection of functions that provide much of the functional capabilities in complex software systems. Most customers are accustomed to interacting with a graphical user interface on the computer. But, many customers do not realize the much of the functionality of a program comes from APIs in the operating system or program's dynamic-link libraries (DLL). So, if the business logic or core functionality is exposed via an API call then and if we want to find functional bugs sooner than API testing may be an approach that provides additional value in your overall test strategy. Additionally, API testing can start even before the user interface is complete so functional capabilities can be tested while designers are hashing out the "look and feel." API testing will not replace testing through the user interface, but it can augment your test strategy and provide a solid foundation of automated tests that increase your confidence in the functional quality of your product.
API testing is a type of software testing that involves testing application programming interfaces (APIs) directly and as part of integration testing to determine if they meet expectations for functionality, reliability, performance, and security.
An Introduction To Automated API TestingSauce Labs
As more and more apps are being assembled from a rapidly expanding array of microservices, APIs are the key to accessing these new architectures. That new feature you’re working on will often rely on upstream services that can only be accessed via APIs - so to test the functionality of the new component you’ll need to simulate those services.
While APIs are the backbone of the websites and apps we rely on today, automated testing of them is only starting to grow. Join Patrick Poulin, CEO of API Fortress, as he provides an introduction to API testing, the best ways to test your own APIs using popular tools available today, and demonstrates the orchestration of API tests and Sauce Labs tests as part of a Jenkins build process.
Key takeaways:
-Clearly understand what API testing means.
-Learn about best practices.
-See demonstrations of popular testing tools.
-See API and UI/UX testing implemented as part of a Jenkins build.
RESTful API Testing using Postman, Newman, and JenkinsQASymphony
INCLUDE AUTOMATED RESTFUL API TESTING USING POSTMAN, NEWMAN, AND JENKINS
If you’re going to automate one kind of tests at your company, API testing is the perfect place to start! It’s fast and simple to write as well as fast to execute. If your company writes an API for its software, then you understand the need and importance of testing it. In this webinar, we’ll do a live demonstration of how you can use free tools, such as Postman, Newman, and Jenkins, to enhance your software quality and security.
Elise Carmichael will cover:
Why your API tests should be included with your CI
Real examples using Postman, Newman and Jenkins + Newman
An active Q&A where you can get your automated testing questions answered, live!
To get the most out of this session:
Download these free tools prior to the webinar: Postman, Newman (along with node and npm) and Jenkins
Read up on how to parse JSON objects using javascript
*Can’t attend the webinar live? Register and we will send the recording after the webinar is over.
As an organization grows, the body of code that needs to be regression tested constantly increases. However, to maintain high velocity and deliver new features, teams need to minimize the amount of manual regression testing. Eric Smith shares his lessons learned in automating RESTful API tests using JMeter, RSpec, and Spock. Gain insights into the pros and cons of each tool, take back practical knowledge about the tools available, and explore reasons why your shop should require RESTful automation as part of its acceptance test criteria. Many decisions must be made to automate API tests: choosing the platform; how to integrate with the current build and deploy process; and how to integrate with reporting tools to keep key stakeholders informed. Although the initial transition caused his teams to bend their traditional roles, Eric says that ultimately the team became more cross-functionally aligned and developed a greater sense of ownership for delivering a quality product.
REST Assured is a Java library .Which, provides a domain-specific language (DSL) for writing powerful, maintainable tests for Restful APIs.
Library behaves like a headless Client to access REST web services.
Strong software testing process is a key to project success. This presentation helps to understand better how to improve the process by automating routine API endpoints testing.
Rest-assured is a 100% java-based, BDD style, test library that you can use for testing REST api's in java projects. These are the slides from the presentation and demo I give at the 2017 #JBCNConf Java conference in Barcelona.
An introduction to api testing | David TzemachDavid Tzemach
WHAT IS API?
MOTIVATION TO TEST API
WHAT IS AN API TESTING?
WHAT TESTS SHOULD BE PERFORMED ON API’S
WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF DEFECTS THAT API TESTING WILL HELP REMOVE?
WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES OF API TESTING?
Katalon Studio is a free and robust automation solution for API, Web, and Mobile testing. It integrates all necessary components with built-in keywords and project templates into a complete automation framework. Katalon Studio is easy to use for beginners but still offers advanced capabilities for experienced users. This solution is trusted by an active community of over 150K users from 150+ countries around the world.
In this knolx, we’ll take a look at what is API Testing and how the katalon studio is helpful in API Testing.
Ivan Katunov. Comaqa Spring 2018. Test Design and Automation for Rest API.COMAQA.BY
Чем тестирование RESTful API сервисов схоже и чем отличается от тестирования других типов приложений? Какое покрытие тестами является достаточным? Какие лучшие практики существуют для автоматизированного тестирования REST API? Эти и другие темы будут раскрыты в рамках доклада.
RESTful API Testing using Postman, Newman, and JenkinsQASymphony
INCLUDE AUTOMATED RESTFUL API TESTING USING POSTMAN, NEWMAN, AND JENKINS
If you’re going to automate one kind of tests at your company, API testing is the perfect place to start! It’s fast and simple to write as well as fast to execute. If your company writes an API for its software, then you understand the need and importance of testing it. In this webinar, we’ll do a live demonstration of how you can use free tools, such as Postman, Newman, and Jenkins, to enhance your software quality and security.
Elise Carmichael will cover:
Why your API tests should be included with your CI
Real examples using Postman, Newman and Jenkins + Newman
An active Q&A where you can get your automated testing questions answered, live!
To get the most out of this session:
Download these free tools prior to the webinar: Postman, Newman (along with node and npm) and Jenkins
Read up on how to parse JSON objects using javascript
*Can’t attend the webinar live? Register and we will send the recording after the webinar is over.
As an organization grows, the body of code that needs to be regression tested constantly increases. However, to maintain high velocity and deliver new features, teams need to minimize the amount of manual regression testing. Eric Smith shares his lessons learned in automating RESTful API tests using JMeter, RSpec, and Spock. Gain insights into the pros and cons of each tool, take back practical knowledge about the tools available, and explore reasons why your shop should require RESTful automation as part of its acceptance test criteria. Many decisions must be made to automate API tests: choosing the platform; how to integrate with the current build and deploy process; and how to integrate with reporting tools to keep key stakeholders informed. Although the initial transition caused his teams to bend their traditional roles, Eric says that ultimately the team became more cross-functionally aligned and developed a greater sense of ownership for delivering a quality product.
REST Assured is a Java library .Which, provides a domain-specific language (DSL) for writing powerful, maintainable tests for Restful APIs.
Library behaves like a headless Client to access REST web services.
Strong software testing process is a key to project success. This presentation helps to understand better how to improve the process by automating routine API endpoints testing.
Rest-assured is a 100% java-based, BDD style, test library that you can use for testing REST api's in java projects. These are the slides from the presentation and demo I give at the 2017 #JBCNConf Java conference in Barcelona.
An introduction to api testing | David TzemachDavid Tzemach
WHAT IS API?
MOTIVATION TO TEST API
WHAT IS AN API TESTING?
WHAT TESTS SHOULD BE PERFORMED ON API’S
WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF DEFECTS THAT API TESTING WILL HELP REMOVE?
WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES OF API TESTING?
Katalon Studio is a free and robust automation solution for API, Web, and Mobile testing. It integrates all necessary components with built-in keywords and project templates into a complete automation framework. Katalon Studio is easy to use for beginners but still offers advanced capabilities for experienced users. This solution is trusted by an active community of over 150K users from 150+ countries around the world.
In this knolx, we’ll take a look at what is API Testing and how the katalon studio is helpful in API Testing.
Ivan Katunov. Comaqa Spring 2018. Test Design and Automation for Rest API.COMAQA.BY
Чем тестирование RESTful API сервисов схоже и чем отличается от тестирования других типов приложений? Какое покрытие тестами является достаточным? Какие лучшие практики существуют для автоматизированного тестирования REST API? Эти и другие темы будут раскрыты в рамках доклада.
Load testing with Visual Studio and Azure - Andrew SiemerAndrew Siemer
In this presentation we will look at what web performance testing is and the various types of testing that can be performed. We will then dig into Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate to see that the Visual Studio platform is now a real contender in performance testing automation. And we will see how the Visual Studio integration with Visual Studio Online and Azure can take your web performance tests and spin up impressive load tests in a truly useful way.
Foundation of Unit testing
Testing paradigm
Unit of work
Organizing a unit test
Testing with dependencies
Test doubles - Fakes, Stubs, Mocks, Dummies and Spies
Examples
The API Check provides a flexible way to check the functionality and performance of API endpoints. The shift toward API first development has magnified the necessity to monitor the back-end services that provide your core front-end functionality. Whether you're interested in testing the multi-step API interactions or you want to gain visibility into the performance of your critical web-services, the API Check can help accomplish your goals.
The Query Service is the new platform solution for querying a variety of data sources. The goal of Query Service is that administrators can configure a metadata description of the data source that can then be used by end users without detailed knowledge of the underlying data source. This session explains how to configure Query Service data sources and use them with the RESTful API or component collection.
How to Do a Performance Audit of Your .NET WebsiteDNN
The hardest part about website performance optimization is identifying the root cause.
In this presentation, Bruce Chapman, Director of Cloud and Web Operations at DNN, shows you how to perform a comprehensive performance audit of your .NET website.
You’ll learn how to uncover the causes of performance issues, and understand that improving performance is often straightforward once the root cause is identified.
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In this session you will learn:
Introduction to Test Automation Framework
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In this Q&A-style webinar, you'll learn:
1. How and why to load test at least three months prior to the holidays
2. How to integrate CI/CD into your holiday load testing
3. How to determine and evaluate load curves
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Enterprise Resource Planning System includes various modules that reduce any business's workload. Additionally, it organizes the workflows, which drives towards enhancing productivity. Here are a detailed explanation of the ERP modules. Going through the points will help you understand how the software is changing the work dynamics.
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Deuglo has top Software Developers in India. They are experts in software development and help design and create custom Software solutions.
Deuglo follows seven steps methods for delivering their services to their customers. They called it the Software development life cycle process (SDLC).
Requirement — Collecting the Requirements is the first Phase in the SSLC process.
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Code reviews are vital for ensuring good code quality. They serve as one of our last lines of defense against bugs and subpar code reaching production.
Yet, they often turn into annoying tasks riddled with frustration, hostility, unclear feedback and lack of standards. How can we improve this crucial process?
In this session we will cover:
- The Art of Effective Code Reviews
- Streamlining the Review Process
- Elevating Reviews with Automated Tools
By the end of this presentation, you'll have the knowledge on how to organize and improve your code review proces
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In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
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Understanding variable roles in code has been found to be helpful by students
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2. About myself
• Software Testing Team Leader and
Resource Manager at Epam Systems
• 11 years of experience in IT, 8 years in
automated testing
• Organizer of “Morning Coffee with
Automation engineers” meetups
• Past projects:
• Epam Systems – Hyperion-Oracle
• CompatibL – Sberbank, RMB
• Viber Media
3. Agenda
1. What is special about RESTful API applications?
2. Test design and coverage
3. Automation
4. Out of scope
• Web services basics
• Unit, performance, security testing
• How to use tools for REST API testing
5. Agenda
1. What is special about RESTful API applications?
2. Test design and coverage
3. Automation
11. Stateless
In RESTful applications, each request must contain all of the information
necessary to be understood by the server, rather than be dependent on the
server remembering prior requests.
Storing session state on the server violates the stateless constraint of the REST
architecture. So the session state must be handled entirely by the client.
12. Transfer Protocol
• Transfer protocol for RESTful API applications in majority of the cases
is HTTP(S).
• However it can also use SNMP, SMTP and others
13. Implementations Differ
REST is an architectural style, implementations might differ
• Roy Fielding - Representational State Transfer (REST)
• Richardson Maturity Model
• What is the Richardson Maturity Model?
14. Agenda
1. What is special about RESTful API applications?
2. Test design and coverage
3. Automation
15. Test Design and Coverage
What to test?
How to test?
What coverage is
good enough?
16. RESTful Services by Functionality
1. Provides data
2. Provides data based on some manipulation with data provided to the
service
3. Complex operations
18. Business Requirements
A forecast service
• Provide weather (temperature, precipitation, wind speed) forecast for next 24
hours at different locations
• Provide weather forecast for tomorrow, 3 days, 6 days
• Provide weather forecast at different locations
• etc.
20. Business Requirements
A calculation service
• Support math operations such as +, -, /, * with integer and float numbers
• Support converting numbers from decimal to hex and binary
• etc.
22. Business Requirements
An Internet shop
• User registration
• Searching and filtering products
• Adding products to cart
• Buying products
• etc.
23. Business Requirements – Summary
• It is crucial to verify business requirements for RESTful applications.
• Use common test design approaches (divide into submodules,
boundary value analysis, equivalence partitioning, state transition
testing, etc.)
28. Endpoints
• Find out which endpoints your web service provides
• Each collection endpoint needs to be tested
• At least one single resource endpoint needs to be tested for each
resource type
• Negative tests:
• Try to request endpoint that does not exist
29. Search, Filtering, Sorting
Endpoints that support search, filtering, sorting, etc. need to be verified with
supported parameters separately and in combinations. Use boundary values,
equality partitioning, pairwise testing, check special characters, max length
parameters, etc.
http://example.com/api/products?q=name:Keyboard&maxPrice:200
http://example.com/api/products?year:2018
http://example.com/api/products?sort:name,asc
• Negative tests:
• Try to request search/filtering/sorting with wrong parameter/value
30. Pagination, Cursors
• Endpoints that support pagination, cursors need to be verified with
supported parameters separately and in combinations. Use boundary
values, equality partitioning, pairwise testing.
• For negative tests try to use limit more than max one, offset out of
bounds, incorrect values
• http://example.com/api/products?limit=20&offset=100
34. Request Methods
• Positive tests
• For each collection endpoint and at least one single resource endpoint for
each resource type verify supported request methods
• Verify concurrent access to resources (DELETE and GET for example)
• Negative tests
• For each collection endpoint and at least one single resource endpoint for
each resource type try to verify behavior for not supported request methods
36. Request Headers
Headers carry information for:
• Request body (charset, content type)
• Request authorization
• etc.
37. Request Headers
• Positive
• For each collection endpoint and at least one single resource endpoint verify
all supported request methods with correct header values - with required
headers only first, then with verifying optional ones one at a time and
combinations.
• Use boundary values, equivalence partitioning, pairwise testing. Verify special
characters, Unicode text for headers, max length values.
• Negative
• Verify behavior in case of missing required header, one at a time
• Verify behavior in case of wrong/unsupported/empty header value
• Verify behavior in case of not supported header
40. Request Body
• Test for endpoints and methods that support sending request body
(e. g. POST, PUT)
• Verify referenced objects
41. Request Body
Possible negative tests for POST/PUT requests:
• Field contains invalid value (not equals allowed value, out of bounds, etc)
• Field of wrong data type
• Field value is empty object/string
• Field value is null
• Required field is absent
• Redundant field (“Add to customFields” example)
• Empty object {}
• Invalid XML/JSON
• No data
• Post already existing resource
45. Response Codes
• Find out which response codes might be returned by your service in
which cases
• Make sure they are logically related with events (404 for resource not
found, 200-201 for resource created)
• Try to reproduce such events and verify response codes are correct
• Verifying server configuration errors usually out of scope
52. Minimal Positive Test
• Verify the response code
• Send POST request
• Add only required fields in the request
with some correct values
• Verify the body of the response
• Verify service-specific headers
• Add only required request headers
• *In case response body is not
returned on POST, send GET
request for the new item or
get from DB
53. Other Positive Tests
• Required fields only in request body
• Test values for each of the fields in
separate tests. Verify full response body
54. Other Positive Tests
• Required fields plus one optional
• Test values for the optional field. Verify
full response body!
55. Complex Request Body
• Makes sense to add at least one test with all possible fields
• For testing combinations of fields pairwise testing might be leveraged
56. Boundary Values for Field Values
Find out boundary values - might depend on XML/JSON restrictions,
DB, other components
60. Rate Limits and Caching
• Verify that cached responses received faster
• Verify cache expiration time (right before and after)
• Find out rate limits for different methods/endpoints
• Try to reproduce max allowed rate limit
• Try to reproduce more than max allowed rate limit
61. Integration with Third Party
Stubs can be used to make testing easier and faster, not dependent on
actual services
66. Risks
• 1. No testing at all
• 2. No requests headers testing
• 3. No separate fields of request body testing
• 5. No status code testing
• 6. No response body testing
• 8. No response headers testing
• 4. No field values, types, number of
occurrence in request body testing
• 7. Testing only specific fields in the response body
68. Trusted Boundaries
• Find out trusted boundaries. “Trust CMS” example
• Add notes for trusted boundaries for tracking
• Verify that those boundaries are still relevant
69. Using XSD, JSON Schema
• In case you have XSD/JSON Schema/WADL, you can validate messages
against them and limit coverage in your tests accordingly
• In case web service uses XSD/JSON Schema/WADL validation itself
additional verification might be minimized. You still need to make
sure that application actually does it (check logs for example)
70. Difficult to Verify Values
• E. g. hash values, current time, random generated values
73. Test Coverage - Summary
• Main challenge - great variety of combinations parameters and values
• Depends on time/resources you have and quality you need
• No need to test third-party components. Test you application only!
• Depends on risks you and the PO are agreed on. How service is used
• Depends on trusted boundaries
• Depends on additional verification using XSD, JSON Schema by the service
• Number of field values difficult to verify
• Depends on automated testing, parallel tests execution
• Depends on unit, UI tests coverage
75. Agenda
1. What is special about RESTful API applications?
2. Test design and coverage
3. Automation
76. Postman
• Use standalone version
• Functionality to reduce routine:
1. Pre-request scripts
2. Test scripts
3. Variables, environments, globals
4. Sharing collections
5. Collection runs
6. Mock server
7. Generate code for cUrl, Java, Python, C#, etc.
8. Newman
77. Java Libraries
• JUnit/TestNG
• RestAssured, Apache HTTP Client, other tools and libraries
• Gson/Jackson (choose the one that is not used by your team’s
developers
• JsonAssert
80. Text
• Can be saved as regular text/JSON/XML files at resources folder of
your test project or in DB
• Hard to change
• Can be used for a limited number of tests with all fields and values
pre-defined
• Maintenance might become a pain in the neck
81. Text + Templates
Apache FreeMarker
Values can be stored in
CSV file
Still requires much
effort for maintenance
89. Object Mapping + Builder
• The most convenient approach to work with test data
• Working with business objects in tests. Technical details are
encapsulated
• Saving test data in files/DB is no longer needed
• Builder pattern allows chaining adding details for business objects
90. Object Mapping + Builder
Cannot be (easily) used in the following cases:
• Custom fields
• Adding null values for specific fields (but not all)
• Wrong data type
94. Gson/Jackson Objects
• The most flexible approach for working with JSON/XML in Java
• Can be used where Object Mapping cannot be (easily) applied
• Requires more effort on developing business objects comparing to
Object Mapping
• Business object cannot be used for serialization/deserialization. Use
wrapped JsonObject instead with its setter and getter
97. Using DB
• Update data and make verifications in DB
• Disadvantages: too coupled with DB schemas that might change often
and significantly
98. Using Java 8 Features
Lambdas and Stream API are rather useful for working with collections
of data
99. Independent Tests
Bad Examples:
• POST object in one test, GET and verify in another one
• Add embedded object in one test, verify it in another one
• Shared data with not thread safe access (test data, configs, connection to DB,
etc)
101. Automation – Tools to Investigate
• SoapUI – REST and SOAP testing tool
• RAML/Swagger - for documentation and contract testing
• Epam JDI HTTP - Web services functional testing, RestAssured
wrapper
• Karate - Web services functional testing using BDD style, based on
Cucumber - JVM
• AWS Lambda - might be used to run API tests in parallel
102. Useful links
• Presentation samples
• Подходы к проектированию RESTful API
• Testing RESTful Services in Java: Best Practices
• REST CookBook
• Status codes
• The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data Interchange Format
• Introducing JSON
• OData
• Тестирование API используя TypeScript. Пример технологического стека
и архитектуры