Software APIs have been one of the most trending technologies. While most functional testing requires interaction with the user interface, API testing involves by-passing the user interface and communicating directly with an application server by making calls to its API. Successful web applications and mobile apps are all the results of the greatest API at the backend.
In agile methodology, most of the QA’s time is spent automating against the GUI using Selenium or any other framework. But in this article, we would look up the smart way to automate our APIs so that UI automation can be reduced a little and automation testing can be done more reliably.