The Way of the Web Tester

What We’ve Learned So Far

That’s it! Congratulations—we have covered an absolute ton here. In combination with the previous chapter, you now have a solid understanding of how the web and RESTful services work, as well as a great foundation to launch suites of integration tests on your applications.

Here’s what we covered in this chapter:

• We can test RESTful services by first creating the right URL, and then sending the correct HTTP verb and data.

• HTTP status codes are how servers tell us whether our HTTP requests were successful or not.

• We can always inspect network traffic using our browser developer tools.

• An HTTP GET request is always available ...