9 Types of API Testing You Need to Know
The 9 distinct types of API testing explained — what each one catches, when to run it in your pipeline, and how they fit together into a complete test strategy.
Insights on API testing, shift-left, no-code automation, and CI/CD.
The 9 distinct types of API testing explained — what each one catches, when to run it in your pipeline, and how they fit together into a complete test strategy.
A practical template for writing API test cases, with worked examples across positive, negative, boundary, and security scenarios — and how each one maps directly onto an automated test.
MCP versus REST from a testing point of view — protocol, contract discovery, caller behaviour, error channels, security surface and what your existing API test skills carry over unchanged.
A complete API testing checklist across functional, security, and performance dimensions — every item explained, mapped to what actually breaks in production, with a downloadable version for CI/CD gating.
A practical guide to testing Model Context Protocol servers — the handshake, tools/list and tools/call, schema assertions, error mapping, transport differences, and the security cases unique to MCP.
How to run API tests inside a Kubernetes cluster — Jobs, Helm test hooks, Argo CD PostSync, ephemeral namespaces per PR, RBAC and collecting results.
A Karate framework tutorial for API testing: Gherkin .feature files with no step-definition code, built-in match assertions, Scenario Outline data-driven tests, and running the suite in CI/CD with Maven.
How testing changes between REST, GraphQL and gRPC — contract format, error semantics, security surface and tooling — with the same check written three ways.
Pact vs Postman for contract testing — what consumer-driven contracts prove that schema assertions cannot, where Postman is genuinely enough, and how to run both.