API and Database Testing with Specflow and C# (Udemy.com)
Understanding and building API and database testing from groundup
Created by: Karthik KK
Last updated March 2016
What you will learn
- Understand what API testing is all about
- Understand what database testing is
- How to perform API and database testing with C#
- Leverage the power of BDD in API and database testing
How it compares
Against the other 281 rated Udemy courses in Software Testing on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.3 out of 5higher than 20% of them
- Reviews692#156 of 282 by number of reviews
- Length1.7 hoursshorter than 90% of them
- Last updatedMarch 2016earlier than 98% of them
Course Description
Understanding API and database testing with Specflow and C# course is designed in such a way that one can learn
· What are API and database testing
Understanding what are API
How to test API
How to test Databases
· Different tools available to perform API and database testing
o Will go through different tools available for API testing
· Why did we choose Visual studio as the tool for API and database testing
o Understand Visual studio for API testing
o How Visual studio helps in developing better codes
· Consuming a WCF API Web service using a Windows Console application from Visual Studio 2015
· Writing simple code to test the Web service with and without using Specflow C#
o Understand the power of Visual studio and Specflow to write code in Specflow C#
o Power of Specflow of automation testing and writing code with Specflow
· Connecting with Microsoft SQL database server to test data using simple queries
o Understand how to connect with SQL Server database via Visual studio code in C# language.
· Database testing using Stored procedures and C#
· Database testing using Mock stored procedure to test database data with API without user-defined data
· Finally, this course, is simple yet focused on the topic and yet easy to complete in a couple of hours
Instructor Details
- 4.3 Rating
692 Reviews
Karthik KK
I am Karthik K.K. I do consulting, blogging and researching on various different tools and technologies which inspire my interest. I have been into Software Automation Testing for over 20 years now and my interest in learning new stuffs which enables automation has never been compromised.
Due to my passion in automation testing I got fully exposed to tools and languages like
AI and Machine Learning: Built an Tool for Playwright MCP Server, LangChain, DeepEval, RAGAs, HuggingFace, Fine-tuning LLMs
Desktop & Web : Cypress, Selenium, Specflow,Puppeteer,Plawright, UFT, VS Coded UI, Ranorex ,Test Complete and Cucumber
Mobile : Appium, Robotium,Calabash, Espresso, Selendroid
Languages : C#, Java, Ruby, Powershell, Javascript, VBScript
Cloud Tools : Azure, Dockers
Misc Tools: Mockito, Rest-assured, Bound-Box,FluentAutomation
Interested in: MVC, Entity framework, LINQ, Fakes, Distributed deployment, SAAS, Event-Driven System
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Reviews
By Baliram Korsule on 10/20/2024
very good content actually there is no more content available on API testing with Database using spec flow with c# so I loved it
By Daniel G on 4/20/2022
Bien explicado pero demasiado rápido para mi gusto, no hay pausas al hablar para dar tiempo a entender lo que se explica
By Manga LS on 10/31/2020
When you introduce a tool/technique, please do not jump to another video where it is explained or worked on. For example, when you are discussing about the required tools, you did mention about IIS server and that is connected to PFservice etc, but i am not sure why i need to have this service/service for my API testing? how to download and from where to download unless i watch your other video, which might not happen while i am watching this and by the time i finish that video, i would not interested to watch this, so the basic purpose is lost. If we are talking about API's testing using visual studio, why not just take simple examples of what are API's, what are end points? how to create a small dB structure? etc are most required than watching another video along with this, hope you would look in to this, Thanks
By Mario Martinez on 5/1/2020
This course is excellent it is teaching me a lot about general API testing and how to support it in my custom automation framework.
By Charlene Stovin on 2/25/2020
it was good - but referenced too many other videos. If this is intended to teach someone with all of the steps, the steps that are also part of other series would be helpful to be included instead of asking someone to go review those then come back
By Andrey Toropov on 12/26/2018
It doesn't cover REST API only WCF so the title of the course is misleading. The instructor doesn't talk about theory, skips details and refers to others courses. My personal conclusion that's this course is ads for another one but not an effort to teach something.
By Bonnie Poole on 8/31/2018
Really enjoyed this course. It was exactly what I was looking for as a beginner automating API tests. The instructor was easy to understand and each video built on the previous one so everything could be seen in context. The lectures covered things in short but complete bite sized chunks which allowed me to absorb the knowledge before moving to the next. Excellent and I will be looking for more from this instructor.
By Neeraj Kulkarni on 8/16/2018
Very good videos and explanation given by instructor. I am happy he has done this course and kept it free for people to hear. He can prepare more detailed videos like this and give real world examples and make it paid as well
By Aidan hyland on 5/25/2018
Prior knowledge of the C# framework course required to code along with this course but short concise and informative. Nice!
By Rahul Vedula on 3/1/2018
Need to stop the popup which comes at every chapter towards the ending. It would be better if you inform us what course to take in your series for better understanding rather than pointing in between the chapter to check the course. However it is steadily and clearly explained, good for developers
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