Less API Testing Hassle with RecipeUI's Swift Tool

It has become quite impracticable to operate in our tech-heavy world without connectivity. The internet has become massively interactive, not only from a social standpoint but in business as well as operations.

Sometimes, without us even realizing it, the applications we use are interconnected with one another, and we need them to be so. Social applications like Twitter, now X, for example, provide not only internal services already existing in the app, like Direct Messages, but also a space for businesses to fill with ads, giving business owners the ability to utilize X’s market. This sort of mutualistic relationship can happen thanks to APIs.

APIs, or Application Programming Interfaces, can be defined as a set of protocols and tools for building applications. This bundle of tools allows developers to create software applications that can interact with other applications, services, or platforms.

Essentially, APIs connect application A to application B, like X with advertisement APIs, which allow businesses to customize their ads, target specific audiences, and so on. The ability to connect one application to another makes our digitally-prone society even more broadly interactive, adding value to every system and service.

Running most existing APIs can be complex and difficult, though, and with interconnectivity becoming increasingly important, this is an issue many developers are trying to solve. This includes RecipeUI, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded by Samuel S. and Jeane Carlos.

API Complications

Finding an API that is simple and easy to run is a rare occurrence. This is, at the very least, true for the non-engineering teams of businesses that need it. Though it is most common for engineering teams to handle aspects of programming, APIs would also require the involvement of other branches, such as a company’s product and quality assurance team, for example.

It is also no longer uncommon for more employees in various branches to have to be adaptable. Considering how individuals and professionals are now often expected to be more versatile, it wouldn’t be such a bad idea to have API tools that can provide accessibility and be easily used by a company’s whole team, whether it be developers, performance managers, or an enterprise’s operations team.

Regardless of that, APIs can still be difficult to navigate, even for engineering teams. One of the issues developers often face is the degree of difficulty in onboarding an API. Every developer has to onboard onto an API differently, adding more to their work and taking up more of their time. The onboarding process would frequently lead to developers having to deal with complicated parameters or labyrinthine authentication methods.

The process of onboarding and utilizing an API properly and effectively can also be halted due to poor documentation. In many cases, developers encounter APIs that do not provide much collected and organized information on how the API works, what the API can do, as well as the problems the API can solve. They are, therefore, required to spend even more time and resources on something that could have been more well provided.

Jeane and Samuel built RecipeUI, an open-source API testing tool, as a way to not only let individuals, professionals, and businesses test APIs in mere seconds without any complicated processes but also to allow anyone on the team to work on APIs together.

RecipeUI’s Solution

During a RecipeUI demo, Samuel presented how the platform is used and how quick and clean the process can be. Samuel was able to test the API by clicking on the team’s “recipes” that automatically generate parameters in real time. This allows users to use APIs smoothly without complicated authentication or setups.

Having these “recipes,” which in this case are example API use cases, would save a massive amount of time that could be spent by teammates on other developments or processes. The platform also allows the testing of multiple APIs at the same time.

The platform was also designed for quick and easy collaboration in an enterprise’s team. Users can import YAML* files that are automatically converted into documented APIs and provide access to anyone on the team readily and effortlessly. This allows APIs to be handled not exclusively by members of the engineering team but also by PMs, QA, and Ops.

*YAML: human-readable data serialization language often used to write configuration files.

RecipeUI utilized its funding of $500K from Y Combinator to build its API testing tool, with a goal of allowing anyone from operations to quality assurance to not have to rely on engineers, creating a more adaptable and versatile team everywhere.

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