API testing

To ensure APIs meet your performance needs, you need proper API testing tools and processes. Our experts evaluate the latest options for API testing, monitoring, remediation and more.

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What are the types of APIs and their differences?

Enterprises increasingly rely on APIs to interact with customers and partners. It all starts by knowing which type of API is right for your needs. Continue Reading
10 API security guidelines and best practices

As with any software development cycle, API security must be built in from the start. Follow these guidelines to design, deploy and protect your APIs. Continue Reading
API testing checklist and best practices

Proper API testing isn't just determining if an endpoint is functional. Follow these steps to identify your organization's important APIs, which tests to run, and which tools to use. Continue Reading

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Guide to building an enterprise API strategy

In today's digital world, businesses increasingly rely on APIs to deliver data and services. Follow this comprehensive guide to build a successful enterprise API strategy. Continue Reading
Apigee vs. Mulesoft: An API management platform face-off

Mulesoft and Apigee are two of the most widely used API management platforms around. This article places them side by side to compare their pros and cons. Continue Reading
What's the difference between API and web services testing?

Web services and APIs aren't the same -- or are they? How do web services and API testing differ, and what does each type of test aim to achieve? Continue Reading

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Top 14 API management tools for 2021

Enterprises increasingly depend on APIs, but need a central way to coordinate all API aspects. Explore the key aspects of API management and how to assess API management tools. Continue Reading
Popular microservices testing tools developers should know about

Testing microservices gets messy as services are independent and communicate often. Here are tests necessary for microservices, and popular tools developers use to perform them. Continue Reading
How to overcome IoT performance testing challenges

IoT that interacts with things -- rather than human users -- introduces new challenges in effective testing, but IT pros can use design best practices to ensure applications will scale. Continue Reading

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Useful APIs are the ones you can track

APIs are effective, in part, because developers can collaborate on them and make them better. Still, useful APIs are ones that are carefully tracked and secured. Continue Reading