ReadyAPI Primary Use Case

SandeepSingh9 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. QA Engineer at Arizona Department of Education

Our use case for ReadyAPI is REST API Testing. We essentially test student data because we're working for a school domain that can have different ReadyAPI test cases.

We have the positive test scenario where we collect real-time data and they pass through ReadyAPI, then post different data types for students, such as the school students enrolled in, whether students are full-time or part-time, what courses the students took, etc. There are positive scenarios and negative scenarios that we try to create in the system, including some junk data, then we'll see how ReadyAPI will behave.

ReadyAPI being a tool, means that you can also feed it any junk data, and it's going to post that data, but what we'll be looking forward to is the HTTP code generated towards the end of the day, to see whether it's valid or not.

If there are irrelevant data, for example, there's an address field that can accept any characters, that should be fine, but if we have a name that we need to find and we provide some special characters, then ReadyAPI will give an error message similar to this "Hey, it looks like you're using special characters, so that won't work for me."

There are multiple edge cases, but it isn't about the tool. It's about the applications being used, and there may be some loose ends within the applications. Edge case scenarios could come up, such as the positive scenario and the X, Y, and Z scenario, and ReadyAPI helps us and makes it easy for us by allowing us to post the data. It lets us create multiple test cases, for example, if we have fifteen resources for a test case, we can tightly bundle those resources under one test case, then execute the test case, then ReadyAPI will run everything under that particular test case.

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Automation Architect at Cognizant

ReadyAPI can be used on the cloud and on-premise, and we are using both methods. We are using the solution locally as a server for test automation. It is local but we are also using Service Pro which is for virtualization and is on the cloud. The integration of the script happens on the dedicated test automation server on the cloud.

We use the solution for coverage of database response validation and service support validation.

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Luis Sanchez - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Quality Assurance Test Engineer at Dormakaba

I use ReadyAPI for all things API testing – functional, migration, and security testing. It helps me automate tests, ensure reliability, and spot performance issues. The tool offers versatility, especially in virtualizing APIs and integrating with CI/CD.

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RolandCastelino - PeerSpot reviewer
QA lead at Bank of Montreal

We have a product, a financial application, that uses a lot of services to connect to our backend systems, so we use ReadyAPI to test those services. Primarily, we use it to build out or mimic the exact services that the development team uses. Second, we use it to build out scripts in Groovy to automate certain scenarios and verify without any manual intervention.

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Srivishnuteja Akella - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation Analyst at Tata Consultancy

Our company uses the solution's SaaS to provide API testing for customers. 

Our quality and automation engineers use the solution. Senior directors randomly open it to ensure that it is working fine. Everyone thinks the solution is convenient to use. 

Most scripts are developed by automation engineers and used by different groups of people who are only comfortable with manual testing. They run scripts but some have challenges with the solution's Groovy programming at first because they are completely new to programming. Other than that, running scripts and using the tool is quite simple. 

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DeepikaSharma - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at CIMB Bank Berhad

ReadyAPI is where I've created the test tools I've used. I use it for functional testing.

I've used it for testing my code, as in for the unit testing basically, and also the functional tests. We had to perform all types of unit tests. 

We could test all the scenarios of the code, all possible scenarios before it goes to QA. We used Excel files to import the data so that we could test the majority of the data.

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Manikandan Kalidas - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior QA Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Our web application is completely dependent on backend APIs. Instead of automating all the clients' use cases, we make sure that all the backend APIs are automated and are false-proof so that any issues can be tackled upfront. 

On the client side, we have a UI where a user will interact with the application. On that end, it's simply the API that is being called and is fished through the UI that is getting rendered. We capture all those APIs and connect them using ReadyAPI.

We use ReadyAPI to automate our APIs and make sure that all the individual APIs are automated with different possible positive cases and negative cases. Then, we use an end-to-end test where we used to have multiple APIs. In the past, we used to combine all the APIs for a scenario, whereby a particular API would get a value that we would pass to other APIs. In the final result, we have assertions, the Groovy script, which is in ReadyAPI.

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Hari Venkatesan - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Engineer at Nielsen one

I use ReadyAPI for API testing. We have microservices, and we are using it for the API testing on them.

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IT Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

ReadyAPI is predominantly used for functional testing of the APIs. Our company has a lot of micro strategy concepts, and we are building a lot of APIs. The focus is on more validations around the APIs for faster or quicker testing rather than the frontend. 

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Derik Wilson - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We are service providers, so a customer will come to us and ask us to build a service. We'll build it, and then we'll use ReadyAPI to test the services before we publish it.

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Karel Husa - PeerSpot reviewer
Integration Architect at Contractor

My use cases are mainly for the functional tests of APIs. I have the desktop installation, and I'm using the latest version.

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Sowmya Somepalli - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Automation Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We mainly use this solution for testing APIs, and we also use it for load testing. SmartBear has a free version as well, which is called SoapAPI, but it does not include all of the features we wanted, so we got the paid version. The pro version has many benefits, including the load testing and more features for the API testing as well. Since we are mainly focused on backend testing, we thought it would be useful for us to have this license.

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Faiz Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Automation Specialist / Lead at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Our primary use case for this solution is for testing APIs, which is very basic. Additionally, we use it for tier-driven automation. For example, if we want a file-based operation for test automation, we can use ReadyAPI as a Groovy scripting tool. So we have some external jars and use Groovy code to invoke mainframe environments, retrieve the data from the mainframe environments into our file, and read the file data. We deploy this solution on the customer's device.

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SJ
Test Lead Engineer at Strategy Compass

I'm using the solution for API testing. My developer developed their APIs in Postman, so ReadyAPI has this integration factor, and from there, I exported my APIs and imported them into ReadyAPI. Every API I convert into a functional test. 

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Vijay Gaikwad - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We are it using it with the license on individual machines.

We have a bulk of APIs for our different products. Previously, we used to do  Postman, and for automation, we used to do C-Sharp code. However, we came to ReadyAPI as it is a tool that can give some exposure to the person who does not have much core coding or programming knowledge. 

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Manoj Venkat Punukollu - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

ReadyAPI was installed on my system as a client and I used it for microservice API testing. The solution was used for an amusement park.

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George Mahlangu - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation Tester at Telesure Investment Holdings (TIH)

We use the solution for performance testing tools.

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AG
Manager, Clinical Applications QA Testing at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are using this solution for API testing on HL7 messages for healthcare.

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BA
Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have a lot of external vendors that we integrate with, so we need to validate all of the APIs. Also, we need to mark those services that don't need external vendor integration.

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HareshKumar Thanneeru - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr.Test Engineer at Tietoevry

I'm using ReadyAPI for services, automation, security testing, and manual updates.

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DL
Senior Engineer at Splashtop

We use ReadyAPI to build our own testing cases. We are able to use the same testing cases to complete automation tests, performance test team and security tests at the same time.

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SK
SDET at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

We mainly used the different applications of API. It's data-driven, so I had to create the Excel sheet and then loop it through the test suites. We were running each version, which was helpful.

Our organization doesn't have many servers due to security compliance.

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Team Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We use ReadyAPI for API test automation. These APIs are developed by our development team and we need to validate the response. We use it for manual testing and then automation for those particular manual test cases. This has been my first experience completing API test automation or using tools for this purpose.

We get the data from an Excel sheet and then we input it into the API request to validate the response which we get. That is all done automatically using the automation suit I created on ReadyAPI. We save the data from the response into an Excel sheet. In my team, there are five people who are using it and we have five different licenses.

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RM
Testing Tool Expert at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

The primary use of this solution is to perform code testing. We can set up the environment, the representations, and the code coverage.

We have this solution deployed on a Windows station, on-premises.

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SoumyaJain - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Test Engineer at Strategy Compass

I primarily use ReadyAPI to convert APIs into functional test cases and to manage customer information.

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MG
Senior Manager - Technology at Publicis Sapient

We were using ReadyAPI for performance testing and creating mocks but there were some issues in terms of scaling, so we are no longer using this solution.

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Sai Bhargav - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Our primary use case of ReadyAPI is as a testing tool for mock data testing. I'm a technical consultant and we are customers of this solution. 

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AA
Development team leader / APPR at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We use ReadyAPI for testing APIs.

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SN
Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I use ReadyAPI for API and data-driven testing. You can run your APIs through a loop.

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Sri Bhargava Boga - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at Hexagon Capability Center India

The primary use case is for APIs and API testing.

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LV
Test Manager at a logistics company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I am a test manager, and we have testers who are experts with these tools. We primarily use this solution for API testing and integration. We have an on-premises deployment.

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Test Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are partners with SmartBear and I'm a test architect.

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it_user1285470 - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Our primary use case of this solution is to test services to have an understanding of what the request to the service should be and the response. We also use it for performance tests.

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