The Most Common API ErrorsThat Aren’t Caught

Patrick Poulinpatrick@apifortress.com

Cost of Failures

SOURCES: The State of API 2016. Smartbear. | The Cost of Poor Quality, QASymphony.

Less Than 10%API issues resolved within

24 hours

Cost of Failures

SOURCES: The State of API 2016. Smartbear. | The Cost of Poor Quality, QASymphony.

1 in 4Issues remain unresolved for

over one week

API Quality

PerformanceUptime Accuracy

1. Book Publisher2. Retail3. Stock Images

99.87%

Integration Test

GET products

1,000 of products

GET product details

100s of 404s

97.3%

WTF!?(why the failure)

Functional Uptime

Integration Testing

Potential Daily Losses

$75,000

50,100

Potential Daily Losses

3,000+

WTF!?(why the failure)

APIDesigners

Developers DevOps

QAsWebsiteProduct Upload

Site Navigation

APIDesigners

Developers DevOps

QAsWebsiteProduct Upload

Site Navigation

Test Everything

$0.00

WTF!?(why the failure)

Testing On Deployments

Testing the Entire Lifecycle

ok bye

Patrick Poulinpatrick@apifortress.com