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2. Web API - Wikipedia

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   Web API. A web API is an application programming interface (API) for either a web server or a web browser. As a web development concept, it can be related to a web application 's client side (including any web frameworks being used). A server-side web API consists of one or more publicly exposed endpoints to a defined request–response message ...

3. Web service - Wikipedia

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   A Web API is a development in Web services where emphasis has been moving to simpler representational state transfer (REST) based communications. [2] Restful APIs do not require XML-based Web service protocols (SOAP and WSDL) to support their interfaces.

4. API - Wikipedia

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   API. An application programming interface (abbreviated API) is a way for two or more computer programs or components to communicate with each other. It is a type of software interface, offering a service to other pieces of software. [1] A document or standard that describes how to build or use such a connection or interface is called an API ...

5. OpenAPI Specification - Wikipedia

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   The OpenAPI Specification, previously known as the Swagger Specification, is a specification for a machine-readable interface definition language for describing, producing, consuming and visualizing web services. [1] Previously part of the Swagger framework, it became a separate project in 2015, overseen by the OpenAPI Initiative, an open ...

6. Overview of RESTful API Description Languages - Wikipedia

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   There are two previous major description languages: WSDL 2.0 (Web Services Description Language) and WADL (Web Application Description Language). Neither is widely adopted in the industry for describing RESTful APIs, citing poor human readability of both and WADL being actually unable to fully describe a RESTful API.

7. API testing - Wikipedia

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   API testing is a type of software testing that involves testing application programming interfaces (APIs) directly and as part of integration testing to determine if they meet expectations for functionality, reliability, performance, and security. [ 1 ] Since APIs lack a GUI, API testing is performed at the message layer. [ 2 ]