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API Testing Services | API Testing Company

What is API Testing?

API testing is a type of software testing that involves examining APIs both independently and as part of integration testing. This process includes code-level testing of the application as well as the APIs that support it. The primary objectives of API testing include:

ensuring the API's reliability, functionality, security, and performance

validating the intended interaction between the API layer and the application

guaranteeing the security of the application's code

Furthermore, as API testing typically occurs before UI testing, each API defect identified by testers can prevent up to ten GUI defects later in the project.

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Why choose Belitsoft as Your API Testing Company?

Specialized API Expertise

Our team has extensive experience in modular and service testing of APIs, employing both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, for public, private, and partner integrations. We possess specific expertise in Agile, DevOps, REST, SOAP, and JSON, ensuring optimal outcomes.

Custom API Automation

We provide a custom framework for efficient and effective automation. Our straightforward API mocking allows for test automation construction even before the API is developed. Alternatively, virtualization offers a more sophisticated, realistic, and scalable simulation.

API Performance Evaluation

Minimize business risks tied to your foundational software components. Our team creates test suites designed to assess your APIs and integration processes continuously.

Improved API Quality

Belitsoft, as an API testing services company, effectively mitigates risks linked to specific software components. This strategic approach leads to the delivery of superior software quality.

Complete Service Range

Belitsoft is ready to meet your needs, whether they involve custom software, cloud solutions, mobile applications, or web apps. Our service extends from initial design and API development to thorough testing, dependable maintenance, and supportive customer service. We also take pride in our comprehensive API reporting, which includes detailed documentation of past test executions, source code, and environment configurations.

Business-Focused

Many testing strategies concentrate primarily on technical risks, neglecting the crucial business context. At Belitsoft, we adopt a holistic approach that melds software testing with an understanding of business risks. Our measure of success lies in the achievement of your end goals. Our experienced team is dedicated to optimizing your return on investment and enhancing your overall profitability.

Scalable API Team

Equip your business for success with Belitsoft, an API testing company that supports your growth without compromising on quality. We offer scalability to meet your needs, all the while ensuring personalized attention and service.

Clear Communication

We ensure effective communication within our teams so that no task is left unfinished. Language barriers aren't an issue, as we make certain you're on the same page as our developers.

Delivery Mindset

From the outset, our top priority is meeting your requirements. Whether it's crafting a business solution or supplementing your team with dedicated developers, we bring unwavering commitment to your goals.

Searching for a dependable API testing company that combines technical proficiency, exceptional service, and a dedication to cutting-edge solutions? You've come to the right place. Discover how we can cater to your unique needs today!

Comprehensive API Testing Services

By outsourcing your testing needs to Belitsoft, you gain access to our expert team that consistently delivers high-quality API testing services. These services drive superior outcomes and give your product a competitive edge in the market.

Dedicated API Specialists

Our API specialists apply their extensive experience with various testing methodologies, including modular and service testing, to every project. Demonstrating proficiency in both agile and waterfall development approaches, they successfully manage public, private, and partner integrations. Having undergone training in Agile, DevOps, REST, and SOAP, our dedicated API specialists come fully prepared to provide top-notch results.

API Performance Testing Services

Our API performance testing services assess the functionality of your web or mobile application under various scenarios, including standard load and stress conditions, at each stage of the software development life cycle (SDLC). This analysis aids in determining whether your app performs optimally under heavy workloads. Our meticulous testing process helps cut front-end costs by identifying and eliminating bugs that could hinder the smooth operation of your software system.

Automated API Testing Services

We employ automated testing to execute a variety of assessments, encompassing dynamic, functional, performance, load, and regression testing, as well as error detection. Our strategy involves the use of potent tools, such as the REST API testing framework, which includes scripting, programming, and configuring applications to validate API functionality periodically. With automated testing, we get results more quickly and streamline our testing process.

API Functional Testing

API functional testing verifies the API layer's effective performance from start to finish, reinforcing its quality. The team of experienced QA engineers at Belitsoft API performance testing company offers cost-effective functionality testing to ensure your APIs function as intended and meet the specified requirements and objectives.

API Reliability Testing

Reliability testing is conducted to verify that the API consistently delivers accurate results without interruptions or complications. We carefully analyze the target API to confirm its ability to consistently provide reliable and precise outcomes, free from significant complexities.

API Load Testing

We perform load testing to validate the system's functionality and performance under various levels of user or transaction load. This ensures your software application can handle a high volume of calls.

API Security Testing

Our API security testing involves a variety of security checks, including penetration testing, authentication validation, encryption assessment, and access control evaluation. We ensure your API adheres to necessary security requirements, such as proper permissions, authentication protocols, and essential access controls.

API Negative Testing

We perform API negative testing to anticipate and handle various incorrect inputs. This testing process ensures your software application effectively manages invalid data or unexpected user behavior, promoting smooth operation and preventing potential issues.

API Unit Testing

At Belitsoft, we use API unit testing to examine individual components of an API independently. The goal is to verify each unit's functionality, ensuring it performs as expected. We test the smallest testable parts of the API, such as functions, methods, or classes, for the correct outputs from given inputs.

API Validation Testing

We ensure the smooth functionality of API connections throughout the application by conducting a series of smaller tests, including integration, system, unit testing as well as User Acceptance Testing (UAT). This comprehensive testing confirms the seamless integration and proper operation of the APIs, ensuring quality and reliability.

API Regression Testing

API regression testing is vital in confirming that existing API functionality remains unaffected after system changes or updates. We focus on making sure modifications don't introduce unintended side effects or disrupt existing features.

Web API Testing

Leverage our decade-long experience in API performance testing services. We're specialists in SOAP and REST API testing for web applications. Our expertise enables us to bolster the reliability of your APIs, empowering you to construct robust, high-performing web solutions that align with your needs and drive favorable results.

API Integration Testing

Early error detection is crucial. Partner with Belitsoft, a seasoned API testing services company, to streamline your testing process and ensure your software's performance, security, and reliability align with user expectations. Our thorough API integration testing helps deliver a product that meets your customers' needs.

Runtime Error Detection

Our runtime error detection services make identifying issues, such as exceptions and resource leaks, straightforward. We blend automated and manual tests, following industry-leading practices to ensure we deliver reliable results. Our approach helps you detect and fix errors quickly.


Mitigate your risks with our timely, effective API quality assurance. Partner with Belitsoft for smart, secure, and scalable API solutions. Contact us today to take the first step towards enhanced quality and reliability.

Benefits of API Testing Services for Businesses

Enhanced API Quality

API testing improves API quality by detecting issues with functionality, performance, security, and compliance. Through comprehensive API testing, developers can ensure the API aligns with expected requirements and specifications, integrates smoothly with its supporting application or system, and delivers a seamless user experience.

Time-efficiency

API testing outpaces other software testing methods thanks to its automation capability. The structured nature of APIs, along with their programmatic handling of requests and responses, makes them ideal for automation. Automated API tests are simple to design and execute, significantly saving time and effort compared to manual testing.

Preliminary error detection

API testing, often performed early in the software development lifecycle, enables the detection of potential issues before they propagate further into the application. We can determine integration aspects and identify compatibility or communication errors by integrating API testing in the preliminary stages.

Increased security

Through meticulous API testing focused on security, organizations can spot and address potential vulnerabilities, enhance access control measures, protect data integrity, and comply with security standards. This ultimately fortifies the overall security of their products. API security testing typically includes vulnerability identification, penetration testing, data protection and encryption, compliance testing and validation, and access control and authorization.

Reduced complexity

API testing, with its focus on the functionalities and interactions of APIs, is typically less complex than testing intricate user interfaces (UI) or graphical elements. This narrower focus allows for more targeted and efficient testing.

Verification of Core Functionalities

Identifying and addressing issues in core API functions early in the development cycle helps minimize rework and reduce overall development costs. Moreover, during testing, developers ensure that the software's essential features function as intended, resulting in a high-quality product.

Leverage our well-structured API testing methodology to save time and ensure your project's success. Maximize the value of your investment. Contact us today!

API Testing Process & Methodology

APIs lack a user interface, rendering traditional black-box testing methods, which involve typing input and recording output, inapplicable. Instead, an application sends requests to the API and receives responses, with testing being either direct or within an integrated system.

To make the process efficient, we automate API testing using specialized tools or write code to interact with the API manually. Our specialists factor in key elements when carrying out API testing:

  • Reviewing API Specifications. We review the API documentation and requirements to determine the testing scope. Gathering requirements helps us understand the product-specific business rules, as these can have unique API implementations, leading to differing sequences and parameters. Knowing these rules, along with the expected inputs and outputs, is crucial for effective API testing. To ensure comprehensive testing, we begin by designing manual test cases or suites based on the product's intended use.
  • Establishing an API Test Environment. Based on your app's infrastructure, we set up the database and server for your application if needed. However, in many cases, understanding how to locate and interact with the application components is crucial, and installing the necessary testing tools is equally important.
  • Selecting API Test Tools. Our API testing specialists select from a variety of available API testing tools, including both commercial and open-source options. Commercial tools often provide a free version with limited functionality, as well as a professional version available for purchase.
  • Developing Test Cases. Our specialists develop test cases that cover a range of scenarios, such as positive and negative testing, boundary conditions, and edge cases. We ensure your test data accurately mirrors real-world situations to effectively validate the API's behavior. This involves collecting or creating test data that closely matches the data encountered in real-world usage, enabling thorough testing of the API's functionality and performance. By incorporating diverse test scenarios and realistic test data, we uncover potential issues and ensure the API operates as expected in various situations.
  • Test Execution and Reporting. We execute the prepared test cases on the API using appropriate testing techniques, such as black-box testing, white-box testing, or gray-box testing. We then compare the API responses with the expected results to verify their correctness and accuracy.
  • Focus on API Performance. As an API testing company, Belitsoft conducts performance testing to measure the API's response time, throughput, and scalability under different load conditions. We utilize JMeter for our API testing because it offers a notable advantage: API tests can be seamlessly converted into performance tests. Additionally, we employ a range of other API testing tools, both commercial and open-source, depending on the client's software requirements.
  • Security Testing. At Belitsoft, we assess the API for potential security vulnerabilities and validate the effectiveness of the implemented security measures.
  • Error and Exception Handling. Our API testing specialists assess the API's response to errors, exceptions, and invalid inputs, ensuring it reacts gracefully.
  • Reporting and Documentation. We document the test results, including any issues or defects found during testing, and provide comprehensive reports.
  • Test Maintenance. As necessary, we update and modify test cases to accommodate changes in the API, new features, or bug fixes.

Streamline your development workflow with a reliable API testing company. Contact us today.

Top API Testing Tools

Ready API

This versatile platform is designed for functional, security, and load testing of various web services, including RESTful, SOAP, and GraphQL. Compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems, Ready API is optimal for comprehensive testing of APIs and web services, addressing both functionality and security aspects.

ACCELQ

ACCELQ is an agile tool designed for codeless API test automation and seamlessly integrates with the UI test suite. Operating on a cloud-based continuous testing platform, ACCELQ is perfect for automating API testing with features like automated test design, codeless automation logic, extensive test management, API regression planning, and 360-degree tracking.

Katalon Platform

Katalon Platform is a versatile testing tool that's user-friendly to both novices and experts. It provides comprehensive testing solutions for APIs, web, desktop, and mobile applications. This platform, compatible with Windows, macOS, and Linux, is particularly renowned for its automated testing capabilities. Whether you're a testing novice or an experienced professional, Katalon Platform can meet your needs.

REST-Assured

Designed specifically for testing REST services within the Java domain, REST-Assured is widely recognized for its effectiveness in testing REST APIs. It's ideally suited for conducting thorough and efficient tests of REST APIs.

Frequently Asked Questions

APIs, or Application Programming Interfaces, are a set of rules and protocols that enable different software applications to communicate and interact with each other. They act as a bridge between different systems, facilitating data exchange and functionality access.

In our perspective, it's beneficial to automate the most API tests. Automated testing not only accelerates the testing process but also broadens test coverage, allowing for scalable API testing.

In an agile environment, where tasks are divided into short sprints, extensive documentation isn't always available. Nevertheless, a high-level agile test plan is crucial, serving as a reference and providing a structured framework for teams. Remember, being agile doesn't mean a lack of structure; it simply signifies a more flexible approach to change.

The cost of API testing typically varies based on the project's scope. For a free consultation and a personalized quote tailored to your specific needs, please contact us.

We provide a variety of test services to meet your project requirements, including:

  • Functional Testing
  • Usability Testing
  • UI Testing
  • Acceptance Testing
  • Cross-Platform Testing
  • Configuration and Compatibility Testing
  • End-to-End Testing
  • Load and Stress Testing
  • Integration Testing
  • Security Testing

API testing offers significant advantages, including early defect detection. By resolving issues in API endpoints early on, businesses can avoid potential reputational damage and downtime. Additional benefits include enhanced security, a stable business logic layer, cost savings, and more. Embracing API testing ensures your business operations run smoothly and reliably.

API testing can be effectively automated using a range of API testing tools, including:

  • Rapid API
  • REST-assured
  • Postman
  • SoapUI
  • Katalon Studio
  • JMeter

These tools offer robust automation capabilities, streamlining the API testing process and enhancing overall testing performance.

Portfolio

API Integration for Digital Transformation of a Freight Management Company
API Integration for Digital Transformation of a Freight Management Company
Our Client, a US-based freight management company, needed a custom core business app to optimize their workflows.
100+ API Integrations for Data Security Management Company
100+ API Integrations for Data Security Management Company
Our Client, the US data management company that sells software for managing sensitive and private data in compliance with regulatory laws, needed skilled developers for building API integrations to the custom software.
Offshore Dedicated Team of 100 QA Testers and Developers at 40% Lower Cost
Offshore Dedicated Team of 100 QA Testers and Developers at 40% Lower Cost
Our client is an Israeli high-tech company. They’ve grown into a leading global provider of innovative network intelligence and security solutions (both software and hardware). Among their clients, there are over 500 mobile, fixed, and cloud service providers and over 1000 enterprises.
Manual and Automated Testing to Cut Costs by 40% for Cybersecurity Software Company
Manual and Automated Testing to Cut Costs by 40% for Cybersecurity Software Company
Belitsoft has built a team of 70 QA engineers for performing regression, functional, and other types of software testing, which cut costs for the software cybersecurity company by 40%.
Software Testing for Fast Release & Smooth Work of Resource Management App
Software Testing for Fast Release & Smooth Work of Resource Management App
The international video production enterprise Technicolor partnered with Belitsoft to get cost-effective help with software testing for faster releases of new features and higher overall quality of the HRM platform.

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