API Testing With Apiary

API Survival Manual
Apiary.io meet-up SF
4/16/2015 @ Heavybit Industries

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1. API Survival Manual — This Guy
3. — Some Other Guy “An API is only as good as its documentation”
4. Cliché?
5. Life saving API * In case of emergency
6. Call 912 Life saving API * In case of emergency *
7. 404 “Not Found”
9. Documentation is the UI for an API
10. How do you test API documentation?
11. You don’t.
12. DREDD github.com/apiaryio/dredd
13. Do your API justice!
14. Find bad API DX and errors before anyone else does
15. Design first Use CI Do local TDD Post deployment test
16. Design first Use CI Do local TDD Post deployment test
17. FORMAT: 1A HOST: https://cryptic-badlands-8184.herokuapp.com/ # Life saving API # Emergency [/912] + Attributes + emergency: true # Request first aid [POST] + Request (application/json) + Attributes (Emergency) + Response 201 (application/json; charset=utf-8) + Attributes (Emergency) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Write Blueprint
18. Design first Use CI Do local TDD Post deployment test
19. API Testing In Apiary
20. Design first Use CI Do local TDD Post deployment test
21. dependencies: pre: - npm install -g dredd test: pre: - dredd 1 2 3 4 5 6 Continous Integration
22. Design first Use CI Do local TDD Post deployment test
23. Apiary Live Testing
24. Add Post Deploy Hook $ heroku addons:add deployhooks:http \
 --url=https://api.apiary.io/apis/ lifesavingapi/tests/environments/default/ trigger
25. Design first Use CI Do local TDD Post deployment test
26. All In One Place
27. github.com/apiaryio/dredd
28. Thank you!
29. Do you want to try?
 testing@apiary.io Adam Kliment @ntmlk, @apiaryio