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Published on: January 31, 2013
Type of content: WHITE PAPER
Format: Unknown
Length: 5 pages
Price: FREE

Overview:

Taking service oriented-architecture (SOA)'s "building block" approach to the next level, application programming interfaces (APIs) have become a hugely popular strategy for bringing services to a broad base of customers across the world-wide development ecosystem.

But this extreme exposure of services as APIs gives rise to four unique challenges:

• A significantly increased attack surface area 


• High potential for unintentional or malicious misuse 


• The need to provide API consumers a test environment 


• And exceptionally unpredictable demand. 

Read this white paper to discover:

• Why many SOA testing strategies are equally effective for API testing that addresses these four challenges 


• How to leverage and extend the core tenets of SOA testing to ensure that your APIs are built to survive the extreme they'll face "in the wild"


• And five API testing "must haves".