Root NTD

Social Media Communities

Idea Sources

Quick Researches

Deep Researches

Projects

Side-Brand Developments - Technical Setup

Productising Development Process

Explore

Deep Researches

API QA as a Service

Preparation for Interviews

Interviews

Briefing:

Many companies develop APIs to dock on →

Immoscout⁠

, PosterXXL, etc

Nearly every API includes errors, or is badly documented

It is not easy to get into the API

Possible Solution:

Offer API Testing as a service

Test out API

Find errors

Test out Documentation

Is it easy to get into it?

API Development tools

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API Documentation & Design Tools for Teams | Swagger⁠

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open source and professional toolset

API Design, Development, Documentation, Testing, Mocking & Virtualization, Governance, Monitoring

API Testing

functional, security, and performance testing

Swagger Inspector provides capabilities to easily inspect API request-responses, and make sure they work as expected

Automated API Testing with

ReadyAPI⁠

⁠

RapidAPI - The Next Generation API Platform⁠

⁠

API marketplace → An API for APIs(more than 20K)

connect to thousands of public APIs

Monitoring of the performance

RapidAPI Testing Tool

Create customizable functional test flows

Monitor and manage API tests across multiple geographies

⁠

microapis.io⁠

⁠

one-click API mock server

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OpinionX │ Free Stack Ranking Surveys⁠

⁠

Available API testing services

Note Daniel: So an observation is that we are with that getting into the software testing market. I would assume (no Idea if true) that a lot of testing is related to security (penetration testing etc.)

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TestingExperts⁠

Expertise on a wide range of API protocols like XML, SOAP, JSON, REST, Gdata, YAML, ATOM, RSS, and RDF etc.

End to end applications validation experience at various layers of the application.

Expertise on leading industry tools for API testing for functional, load, and security testing.

Automation of API test cases.

⁠

Deviqa⁠

⁠

API specification review

Analyzing requirements

Test documentation development

Test framework development

Integration test suite with CI/CD server

Test execution & reporting

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LogiGear⁠

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Micro Services: Web API, REST API, SOAP UI, JSON/XML, HTTP/HTTPs, Basic Auth/ OAuth, API calls,

API functional testing, data testing, interoperability testing, and load testing

API test case scripting and services mocking

API testing in CI/CD/DevOps environment and cloud environments

API testing tools/frameworks evaluation, selection, and customization

Public API testing: developer experience testing and documentation testing

Different Considerations

Looking at German market first:

There are API-companies (

https://www.finapi.io/⁠

) whose business model relies completely on API, I would assume that most stuff here is optimized as it is their core business → NO LOW HANGING FRUITS AND HARD TO STANDARDIZE → not our focus

There are companies whose core business model works through a User Interface (PosterXXL, Immoscout etc.) but who also offer APIs for specific user group. Those are the APIs that potentially can be improved with our idea. The question here is, whether the API is important enough to justify an investment (the ROI has to be good) → I would focus on those and understand what USP is appealing to them

Liste of German APIs:

https://www.programmableweb.com/category/german/api⁠

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List of German big corporates APIs:

https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2018/06/05/profitieren-startups-von-apis-etablierter-unternehmen/⁠

⁠

Offering: Also maybe Offer connection to NoCode Tools/Zapier

Later I will message

Poster XXL Head of customer service: Für einen Kunden mussten wir eure API anbinden, war leider sehr schlechte Expirience, habt ihr Lust auf Feedback dazu? → richtigen Ansprechpartenr kriegen + im Call Pain Points und Prio der API lernen. Am Ende sagen, dass man vllt was in dem Bereich anbieten möchte, meldet sich dann nochmal

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https://www.linkedin.com/sales/people/ACwAAADmBIYBYSWSXRcKqQxuV9qAwkmBzmDuGg8,NAME_SEARCH,Ibm1?_ntb=G6k3gHPhRfqCSy8tlqiPyQ%3D%3D⁠

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