Can API Testing replace UI testing?

API testing is focused on the functionality of the business logic (such as a calculating total price) and it is entirely different from UI testing. It mainly concentrates on the business logic layer of the software architecture. This testing won’t concentrate on the look and feel of an application.

What is API automation testing?

API testing is a software testing practice that tests the APIs directly — from their functionality, reliability, performance, to security. Part of integration testing, API testing effectively validates the logic of the build architecture within a short amount of time.

Can we automate API testing using Selenium?

Selenium framework for URL based API testing, simplifies API validation by building test cases. The same can be leveraged for a selenium driven automation engine to validate and update the test execution results.

What is uiui automation testing?

UI automation testing, is similar to manual testing, but instead of having a user click through your application, and visually verify the data. You create a script for each test case that you want to test.

What are the best automated UI testing frameworks?

Robotium is one of the most commonly used automated UI testing frameworks as it offers a simple API to write UI automation scripts. The main issue with Robotium is that it requires knowledge of Java and its maintenance cost is high.

When should I use mobile test automation?

Use mobile test automation for repetitive test suites that take up a lot of manual efforts (e.g.: Regression Testing) There are Test Suites which cannot be run manually, and tools are needed (for e.g.: Performance Testing)

What is Microsoft UI Automation used for?

This overview describes how Microsoft UI Automation can be useful as a framework for programmatic access in automated testing scenarios. UI Automation provides a unified object model that enables all user interface (UI) frameworks to expose complex and rich functionality in an accessible and easily automated manner.