Testing ASP.NET Web API with Javascript

ASP.NET Web API encourages creation of a RESTful API by populating controllers with GET (list), GET (record), POST (save), PUT (update) and DELETE (..delete) methods.

This allows you to interface with your C# back-end using any front-end - completely decoupling your data from UI.

In a recent project, I have a user registration form and a persistent window for the user to record daily productivity notes.

To allow constant changes and confidence that all aspects of the API are up to scratch, we’ll be putting together a javascript test harness that can run on demand, to automatically test all API functionality any time we need. This makes for faster bug finding and fixing and round the clock, bug-free, continuous deployment. It also means the API is always up-to-date and fully documented with working code.

Any client can perform exactly the same operations that the original desktop application can (mobile application, desktop application, website).