Episode 387: Abhinav Asthana on Designing and Testing APIs

Abhinav Asthana, a founding partner and CEO of the API development tool Postman, discusses API design and testing, where to start, which types of APIs to offer, what tools you can use, what features to expose, and which is his favorite API to reference. Host Gavin Henry spoke with Asthana about gRPC, GraphQL, RESTful, JSON, API Schemas, RAML, WADL, OpenAPI, JSONAPI, Swagger, Postman, documentation drift, DRY, First Time To Request (FTTR), Postman collections, mock APIs, developer portals, and the first version of Postman.

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• Swagger
• JSONAPI
• OpenAPI
• Postman
• Stripe API
• The Pragmatic Programmer
• A Framework for the Structural Analysis of REST APIs
• Model-Based API Testing of Apache ZooKeeper
• API Automation Test with API Relation Diagram

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