API Documentation and Testing

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    Now that we've decided we want to build
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    a decoupled site, it's a good time to start thinking about our API from a design,
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    documentation and testing perspective. In this lesson we're going to take a look at
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    a service called apiary.io, then we'll take a look at a few similar open source tools
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    that allow us to accomplish similar goals to Apiary, namely having our API documented
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    and testable. To do that we'll introduce the API Blueprint Markdown specification,
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    the Dredd testing tool, and another library called Aglio for generating HTML documentation
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    for our API. Apiary.io is a service that helps us
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    manage our API. It allows us to design it collaboratively in Markdown with a handy
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    online editor, generate API, mock servers, documentation, testing, and gives us a
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    Agora que decidimos que queremos construir
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    um site dissociado, é uma boa hora para começar a pensar sobre nossa API a partir de um ponto de vista
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    de design, teste e documentação. Nessa lição, iremos dar uma olhada
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    num serviço chamado apiary.io, depois iremos dar uma olhada em alguas ferramentas de código aberto
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    que nos permitem atingir objetivos similares ao Apiary, isto é, tendo nossa API documentada
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    e testável. Para fazer isso, iremos introduzir a especificação da API Blueprint Markdown,
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    a ferramenta de teste Dredd, e outra biblioteca chamada Aglio para gerar documentação HTML
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    para nossa API. O Apiary.io é um serviço que nos ajuda
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    a gerir nossa API. Ele nos permite arquitetá-la colaborativamente em Markdown com um
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    editor online conveniente, gerando uma API, servidores simulados, documentação, testes, e nos dá

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API Documentation and Testing

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10 minutes 38 seconds // HDCC //

In this tutorial, I'll introduce the API Blueprint specification and take a look at a few tools we can use to provide documentation and testing for our API.

The tools we'll look at include:

By the end of the tutorial you'll have a better understanding of the API Blueprint specification and be able to use Dredd and Aglio to ensure your API documentation and testing stay up-to-date.

Self-check question: Could you write a script that could be run after every commit that would keep your documentation up-to-date, and provide API test results?

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Apiary
API Blueprint
Dredd
Aglio