Web Services Testing
Build smarter web services tests faster. Mass generate REST API tests and automate with or without a CI.
REST API Testing
Try our powerful REST API Testing platform for free. Generate API tests with no scripting, or write tests with a local IDE. Mass generate end-to-end functional tests or API mocks. Accelerate bug diagnosis and debugging with coverage of the entire API flow.
REST API Testing
API Fortress enables developers and testers (technical and non-technical) to work in parallel on designing, executing, and managing REST API tests from a single platform. Simplify collaboration within and between multiple teams. Improve agile velocity with a single pane for accurate and efficient API alerting (via integration with tools such as PagerDuty), detailed issue reporting, and rapid debugging.
- Import and mass generate REST API tests from Postman Collections, OpenAPI (OAS), Swagger, WSDLs, or RAML (Mulesoft)
- Write smarter REST API tests faster with our API testing tool (the Composer) for true consumer-driven tests
- Automate test execution in any CI/CD pipeline, or schedule tests to run without a CI
- Execute performance tests using existing REST API functional tests
- Turn any database into an API for data-driven REST API testing (read this DZone article for more info)
What Is REST API Testing?
Most modern web services, websites, and mobile apps depend on RESTful APIs, more commonly called REST APIs. As MuleSoft describes in “What is a REST API?“, these APIs have replaced SOAP APIs at most organizations due to the ease of using multiple protocols during API calls. This makes RESTful API design especially good for web APIs that often require handling calls with data that changes in format and/or structure.
Many of today’s Top 25 RESTful API Testing Tools including API Fortress seamlessly test REST APIs across JSON, XML, TOML, YAML, CSON and other data serialization formats. These formats are divided between better for human readability or better for machine readability, allowing REST APIs to unlock innovative use cases for intelligent automation and smarter apps.
What makes REST APIs more flexible than SOAP APIs also makes them far more challenging to test: the REST architecture is restricted with statelessness. That means a REQUEST between a client and a REST API server must contain sufficient information to understand the request without prestored context on the server. The client is required to store and handle all state-related information, resulting in a continuous process of creating and recreating the state at the edge. REQUESTS with statelessness are isolated from prior REST API conversations and therefore must contain credentials that have not been stored with the client.
Accurate REST API testing involves checking all of the information in the header, body, and params of a REQUEST. However, due to the statelessness of REST APIs, it is critical for REST API testing to check the entire API conversation on a continuous basis.
Patrick Poulin, CEO and co-founder of API Fortress remarks:
“Think of APIs as books. You can’t just run a spellcheck and consider the book properly edited. You need to validate the book from every angle including sentence, structure, and logic. That’s why we built API Fortress with the ability to capture API conversations, generate tests, but then make editing and adding intelligence to the test easy.”
Watching the World Burn
If your organization has started treating REST APIs as first-class citizens, then your APIs should be tested with data-driven and end-to-end functional API testing. Learn what it takes to write API tests with high domain expertise to significantly improve REST API quality and agile velocity.
A Fully Integrated Testing Tool and Platform
API Fortress was built from the ground up as the only API-first, cloud-native platform for modern web services and API testing automation. Deploy API Fortress as an affordable SaaS to test and monitor public APIs. Or keep all tests and results behind your firewall with a self-hosted deployment (on-premises container).
Data-Driven Functional API Testing
Easily connect API Fortress to any database and create tests that validate the entire API consumer flow for more accurate API metrics.
Functional Uptime
API Monitors
Understand end-to-end functional uptime by reusing data-driven functional API tests as monitors that can run in any environment
API Load and Performance Testing
Reuse data-driven functional tests as load and stress tests that capture end-to-end issues that impact performance.
Shift-Left Testing –
API Mocking
Run API tests as early as the design stage with API Fortress mocking. Generate mocks from recorded API traffic.
Connect to Any API Management Gateway
Easily integrate API Fortress with popular API management platforms such as Apigee Edge and MuleSoft Anypoint. Explore all API Fortress integration partners to close any final quality gaps in your continuous testing toolchain. Unified REST API testing and management is a powerful yet simple solution to optimize agile velocity and generate API tests on any scale. Embrace Test-Driven Development (TDD) and drive continuous quality in CI/CD pipelines and microservices.
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Simplify API Test Creation and Execution
Automatically generate your first tests in seconds from a payload, spec files, or recorded API traffic. Then edit tests in your own IDE, our downloadable IDE (Forge), or our simple drag-and-drop GUI. A completely unlocked workflow for how your team likes to work. Then easily execute tests as part of your CI pipeline, as a scheduled monitor, and as a load test.
Built for Integrations
With extensive APIs and partnerships, API Fortress is highly interoperable with any platforms in your toolchain. Validate APIs built in API management platforms — Apigee, MuleSoft, TIBCO Cloud Mashery, Axway, Oracle, and WSO2. Commit tests to your own Git, execute tests as part of a CI flow (Jenkins, Bamboo, TravisCI, Azure DevOps), receive test results in test case managers like qTest and TestRail, and receive notifications in platforms like Slack.
Simplify End-to-End Tests
Thanks to easy generation of functional tests with API Fortress, agile teams gain valuable time to focus on creating robust end-to-end tests that reproduce user behavior. Go beyond validating singular endpoints with API Fortress, and understand whether entire API programs are interacting as expected.
Remove Silos, Standardize Across the Organization
Cross-functional collaboration with context-aware conversations are critical to Agile success. API Fortress simplifies collaboration, and serves every user and team that depends on APIs. All tests and reports are stored in a collaborative environment, so teams can more efficiently validate if their APIs satisfy the business case.
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