By Sue Poremba

People think of APIs as a way for two software applications to communicate,” Williams explained. For example, if a mobile phone application calls a company’s public web APIs, then the “identity” is simply the end user. But what if that public web API then makes requests to internal APIs or third-party external APIs? Where is the identity? Is it the end-user or the identity of the web API? Or both?

 

By Rajesh Khanna

All these things lead to the need of an effective and comprehensive automation tool which can help in testing the mobile application in a cost-effective manner. The real physical devices need a test automation tool which has the ability to integrate into the testing environment, full coverage, simple and quick to operate and can run the same test on many devices and mobile operating systems.