The Most Common API Errors
That Aren’t Caught
Patrick Poulin
patrick@apifortress.com
Cost of Failures
SOURCES: The State of API 2016. Smartbear. | The Cost of Poor Quality, QASymphony.
Less Than 10%
API issues resolved within
24 hours
Cost of Failures
SOURCES: The State of API 2016. Smartbear. | The Cost of Poor Quality, QASymphony.
1 in 4
Issues remain unresolved for
over one week
API
Quality
Performance
Uptime
Accuracy
1.Book Publisher
2.Retail
3.Stock Images
99.87%
Integration Test
GET products
1,000 of products
GET product details
100s of
404s
97.3%
WTF!?
(why the failure)
Functional
Uptime
Integration
Testing
Potential Daily Losses
$75,000
50,100
Potential Daily Losses
3,000+
WTF!?
(why the failure)
API
Designers
Developers DevOps
QAs
Website
Product
Upload
Site
Navigation
API
Designers
Developers DevOps
QAs
Website
Product
Upload
Site
Navigation
Test
Everything
$0.00
WTF!?
(why the failure)
Testing On
Deployments
Testing the Entire Lifecycle
ok bye
Patrick Poulin
patrick@apifortress.com

The Most Common Errors That Aren’t Caught