- Oct 15, 2018
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What is a RESTFul Web Services?
Mostly, there are two kinds of Web Services which should be remembered in your next API testing interview:
- SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) – an XML-based method to expose web services.
- Web services developed in the REST style are referred to as RESTful web services. These web services use HTTP methods to implement the concept of REST architecture. A RESTful web service usually defines a URI, Uniform Resource Identifier a service, provides resource representation like JSON and a set of HTTP methods.
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API Testing Interview Questions- What are the differences between SOAP and REST?
- Advantages and disadvantages of SOAP
- When to use SOAP API?
- How does SOAP work?
- What are SOAP Web services?
- Difference between PUT and POST operations?
- HTTP methods supported by REST
