REST API Basics for Testers

Summary

Understanding how REST APIs work — resources, endpoints, and standard conventions — essential since API testing often catches issues faster and more reliably than testing through the UI alone.

• 1Read a simple REST API's documentation and identify its key endpoints.
• 2Learn the basic REST conventions: resources represented as URLs, actions represented as HTTP methods.
• 3Understand why API testing tends to be faster and more stable than UI automation.