How to test APIs??

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  • postman-app-support

    Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.

  • libcurl

    A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features

  • cURL

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • Postwoman

    👽 Open source API development ecosystem - https://hoppscotch.io

  • Postwoman aka Hoppscotch

  • supertest

    🕷 Super-agent driven library for testing node.js HTTP servers using a fluent API. Maintained for @forwardemail, @ladjs, @spamscanner, @breejs, @cabinjs, and @lassjs.

  • If you want to write integration tests - https://jestjs.io - https://github.com/visionmedia/supertest

  • Cypress

    Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser.

  • If you want to not hate your life testing browsers - https://www.cypress.io

  • puppeteer

    Node.js API for Chrome

  • jest

    Delightful JavaScript Testing.

  • If you want to write integration tests - https://jestjs.io - https://github.com/visionmedia/supertest

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • OpenAPI-Specification

    The OpenAPI Specification Repository

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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