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Exploring an API

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Exploring an API

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- [Instructor] A big part of testing is discovering what there is to test. You could say that a tester is an explorer and for this video, I want you to put on your explorer hat. We're going to spend a few minutes exploring this to-do list application that I've made. There'll be some challenges later on in this course where you can try your hand at testing this API but for now, let's try some exploratory testing techniques to see if we can figure out what this API does. So the first and most obvious thing is to put a to-do item in this text box and then click add. But how does that help us with figuring out what the API does? Well, every browser has something called the Developer Tools and on Chrome, I can get to it on the menu here. More Tools and Developer Tools. With most browsers, you can also bring this up using the keyboard shortcut F12. Now that I've got the Developer Tools open, I want to make sure that I'm on the…

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