A big focus on Web API testing, with DHC by Restlet:
- Restlet published a screencast on API discovery, using the DHC API testing tool.
- You can also watch DHC creator Filip Kolarik in this webinar showing API discovery, testing, scenarios, and continuous integration with DHC.
- Yves de Montcheuil lists three reasons for thoroughly testing your API.
- I wrote the test scenario of your next Web API movie with DHC!
Jenn Strater gave a presentation on test-driven approaches to documenting RESTful APIs. Developing Web APIs code-first, with annotations all over your code base, is not necessarily the optimal way, and leads easily to breaking contract changes when refactoring your code, and with documentation becoming out-of-date. Jenn demonstrates a test-driven approach to check the implementation conforms with the test specification, and generate documentation at the same time.
Three benefits to including API testing in your development process by Ashley Waxman on the Runscope blog, to improve test quality, test coverage and test reuse.
Christian Grobmeier goes through API Blueprint’s new MSON format for representing your data structures in your Web APIs.
Paul Hallett released a new version of his PokéAPI, for the fans of Pokémon.
An interview of Mike Amundsen on all things APIs, as well as music composition! And also another interview with Lorinda Brandon this time, on the API2Cart blog, with her perspectives on the API world.
How to grow and profit using a Freemium API monetization model by Art Anthony on Nordic APIs blog.
How API aggregators help business units build automated workflows bypassing IT by Mark Boyd on TheNewStack.
Maurice Nagle on the API opportunity.
Everything you know about REST APIs is wrong says Bill Appleton, who leads DreamFactory.
Of API microservices, the Unix philosophy, and the Richardson Maturity Model, by Chris Hart, introducing Ramses executable API specs based on RAML.
BusinessWire mentions Swagger earns InfoWorld Technology of the Year award from IDG.
Bob Reselman explains how to create a high performing API, with a new perspective for 2016.
Towards an open banking API standard by Jack Gavigan.
The true API meaning and potential for your business by Thomas Quillfeldt.
More API news:
- API developer weekly #98