chapter two

2 Beginning our testing journey

 

This chapter covers:

  • Introducing our product
  • Setting up our product
  • Learning about what we're testing from our teams and the product
  • Capturing our understanding visually to share with others

Imagine it's our first day on an established project. We've joined a team that has been working hard on delivering a product, and we've been task with implementing a testing strategy to help the team and improve quality. Where do we begin? We want to help our teams build high-quality products, but what is the best course of action to take? What tools, techniques or activities should we adopt first?

This is the situation we find ourselves in this book right now. In the upcoming, we'll be learning different ways to test Web APIs and how to build an API testing strategy to help us learn; we'll be practising against an example product. Just like that imaginary first day, we're tasked with building an API testing strategy for an application and context we're unfamiliar with. Therefore in this chapter, we'll learn not only about our product, restful-booker-platform but how to begin our journey towards establishing a successful API testing strategy.

2.1 Introducing our product

2.1.1 Introducing restful-booker-platform

2.1.2 Setting up restful-booker-platform

2.2 Familiarising ourselves with restful-booker-platform

2.2.1 Researching the product

2.2.2 Researching beyond the product

2.3 Capturing our understanding

2.3.1 The power of models

2.3.2 Building our own models

2.4 Congratulations, your testing!

2.5 Summary