Chapter 5Integration Testing RESTful Web Services
No, sorry Dave—we haven’t forgotten. RESTful web services have become an extremely popular way of designing web services. If you’re a tester, understanding the high-level design of how REST works will help you with the mechanics of your tests. If you’re a developer, understanding the underlying constructs of RESTful services is essential for building them. And there is no better way to learn an architecture than to test it.
So with our new insights around how to script web requests with HTTP, and a high-level understanding of how RESTful APIs work, let’s now see if we can’t come up with some ...
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