Is API testing in demand?

According to Google Trends, the interest in API testing has been growing steadily. Having the right process, tool, and solution for API automation tests are becoming more critical than ever. With the shift-left trend, API testing is a crucial component of a successful CI/CD deployment.

Can selenium automate API?

Selenium is used to automate UI(functional) testing. if you have a user interface base or custom framework which is built around the Selenium web browser you could easily extend that framework to include API testing, but you need a different tool or library for doing that.

What is the stable selenium version?

Selenium 4 Latest Version The original Selenium 4 release date was May 2019. With consistent upgrades, the latest driver (Selenium RC1) was released in June 2021.

What is latest in selenium?

Selenium 4 (Alpha 3) version is now launched in the market. As we all know the founder of Selenium is “Simon Stewart” and now he has introduced the new version not only for web drivers but also for Grid and IDE. Selenium 4 adopted the W3C standard Web Driver Protocol.

Which is better API or selenium?

Another advantage is that API tests are more easily setup as performance tests: running the API tests on 100 machines with 100 calls per second is much easier than doing the same thing with Selenium tests. Concluding: in my opinion having three levels of automated tests has a lot of advantages.

Is it possible to do API testing with selenium?

Well of course, if you have a user interface base or custom framework which is built around Selenium web browser you could easily extend that framework to include API testing, but you need a different tool or library for doing that. One of those libraries that Bas uses is Rest-assured.

Does selenium have enough coverage for UI testing?

We could have very minimal coverage for UI testing. REST API testing is not very difficult compared to selenium web driver UI testing. Most of the APIs should be one of GET / POST / PUT / PATCH / DELETE requests. POST is used to add new information into the back end. PUT is used to update / replace any existing information.

What is Selenium WebDriver API?

Selenium 2.0 is an aggregation of Selenium RC with WebDriver API. Selenium was developed so as to support dynamic web pages and Ajax calls. It also supports various drivers to perform web based mobile testing. Selenium WebDriver Framework for API Testing

Why selenium framework is the best choice for automation?

New and innovative approaches have been developed for test automation utilizing the Selenium framework, thereby helping the enterprises to improve their service quality and thereby reducing the costs. Keeping this in mind, the Selenium framework has been developed as it helps the testing teams to automate the validations of URL based APIs.