My speaker deck from Gluecon 2015

1. API Readiness:
Visualizing and
Virtualizing
LO R I N D A B R A N D O N
@ L I N DY B R A N D O N
S M A RT B EA R
S O F T WA R E

2. Keys to a
successful
API
documentation
testing
mocking
evangelism
management
monitoring

3. But how do you get
there?

4. Software is not built by developers alone

5. API
Readiness
visualize

6. Service Definitions
The best way to visualize your API

7. Describing
Is not really visualizing

8. Visualizing
:
New ideas
Swagger.ed (credit - @chefarchitect)
Coloring outside the lines
New Ideas

9. Visualizing
:
New ideas
Ardoq
Coloring outside the lines
New Ideas

10. Visualizing
:
New ideas
LucyBot
Coloring outside the lines
New Ideas

11. API
Readiness
visualize
validate

12. Functional Test
Live up to your own hype

13. Load Test
Don’t let success kill you

14. Security Test
Know where the dangers are

15. API
Readiness
visualize
validate
virtualize

16. Why
Virtualize
Your API?
parallel dev & test
isolated app testing
app load testing
sandbox
API evolution

17. Three Levels
of API
Virtualization
Static Mocks
Static responses
• Semantically
correct
• No logic
• Payloads
generated from
schemas or
examples
Code or generated
from metadata
Dynamic Mocks
Dynamic responses
• Based on input
• Re-use input in
output
• Scripting
• Data-driven /
Data-generation
• Simulate state
Assertions on
incoming content
Virtual APIs
Runtime behavior simulation
Runtime management
• Redirect traffic to Virtual
APIs dynamically
• Access control
• Deployment
• Test execution
integration

18. API
Readiness
visualize
validate
virtualize
monitor

19. MONITO
RING
Virtual APIs
Mock Services
Production
APIs
Keep production
stable
Prevent
bottlenecks
Test
DevTestDev
Test
Ongoing development
API
Monitoring

20. visualize
validate
virtualize
monitor