Hi recently in an interview I was asked to write API test
cases. Since I am not familiar with it can someone put more
light towards API testing and give some example test cases
for the same.
Thanks!

Answer Posted / manish

An API (Application Programming Interface) is a collection
of software functions and procedures, called API calls,
that can be executed by other software applications. API
testing is mostly used for the system which has collection
of API that needs to be tested. The system could be system
software, application software or libraries.

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