Using Google Sheets and Runscope to Run API Tests with Multiple Variable Sets
We frequently run into users who are looking to run an API test multiple times, using a variety of initial variables. For example, the user might be looking to:Test the same request against a list of...
View ArticleOpenAPI / Swagger Resource List for API Developers
What is the OpenAPI / Swagger Specification?The OpenAPI Specification, formerly known as Swagger Specification, is a simple yet powerful way of describing RESTful APIs, in a machine and human...
View ArticleEnsuring Microservices Success: Key Things to Consider
This is the first post in our Featured Guest Series! Janet Wagner shares eight tips on how your company can ensure success when moving to a microservices architecture.If you're interested in being a...
View ArticleYou Might Not Need GraphQL
This is the second post in our Featured Guest Series! Phil Sturgeon takes a look at some GraphQL features and shares different ways to implement them for your endpoint-based APIs.If you're interested...
View ArticleMonolith to Microservices: Transforming a web-scale, real-world e-commerce...
This is the third post in our Featured Guest Series! Kristen Womack shares the story of the transformation Best Buy went through when moving from a monolithic application to a microservices...
View Article4 Methods to Make Your API Truly Discoverable
This is the fourth post in our Featured Guest Series! Bill Doerrfeld shares 4 key techniques that API advocates and product owners can use to increase their APIs discoverability. If you're interested...
View ArticleStoring API Test Results to a Database with Eventn and Runscope
A common requirement for Runscope users is to save and analyze test results for alerting, building custom dashboards, and other analytical purposes. One way to do that is to pipe all your test results...
View ArticleBuilding a Steam Powered IoT API with Thingsboard
This is the fifth and final post in our Featured Guest Series! Joshua Curry shares his experience building an IoT project with a steam engine, Thingsboard, Raspberry Pis, and Runscope.If you're...
View ArticleMonitoring API Performance with the New API Metrics Endpoint
We have a new endpoint available for the Runscope API! Now you can retrieve your API tests performance metrics for each individual test, keep a pulse on your API's performance over time, and create...
View Article3 Easy Steps to Cloud Operational Excellence
This is a guest post by Bruce Wang and Glen Semino from SYNQ, a video API built for developers. In this post, they explain the tools and processes they use to keep the company's API operations running...
View ArticleTutorial: Continuous Integration with CircleCI and Runscope API Tests
CircleCI is a popular Continuous Integration and Delivery solution (used by Facebook, Kickstarter, Spotify), and integrating it with Runscope Trigger URL tests so you can run your Runscope API tests...
View ArticleMaking Requests to the AWS API with Signature Version 4 and Script Libraries
We recently had a customer that wanted to test and monitor a few endpoints for the AWS API. For security reasons, most requests to AWS APIs have to be signed using their Signature Version 4 signing...
View ArticleCopying Runscope Environments using the Runscope API
The Runscope UI provides a lot of flexibility for our customers to monitor and test APIs. You can easily manage the tests you have written, whether that means exporting them, duplicating them, or...
View ArticleTutorial: Integrating Runscope with New Relic Insights
New Relic Insights is a real-time analytics platform that collects event and metric data from other New Relic products, and also third-party integrations. By connecting New Relic Insights with...
View ArticleDebugging SSL Errors in Your API Monitoring
When working with external or internal APIs, a million things can make it return errors: missing HTTP headers, sending an invalid authorization credential because you forgot to append "Bearer" to your...
View ArticleTutorial - Converting your Swagger 2.0 API Definition to OpenAPI 3.0
At the end of July, the OpenAPI Specification 3.0.0 was finally released by the Open API Initiative. It's a major release, and after 3 years in the making, it brings about a lot of improvements over...
View ArticlePlaying with Node.js and the Runscope API on Glitch
logo-day I've been wanting to create a project on Glitch for quite some time. Glitch is a startup/product/friendly community where you can create and remix Node.js projects, use an online code editor...
View ArticleRunscope is Joining CA Technologies!
Today I’m excited to announce that Runscope has been acquired by CA Technologies. We’re bringing our market-leading API monitoring tools to CA to further our shared mission of equipping developers...
View ArticleHow to Sync your OpenAPI Schema in Stoplight with GitHub and Runscope
This is a post from our Featured Guest Series! Glen Semino shows how to combine Stoplight and GitHub APIs with Runscope to keep your OpenAPI Schema always versioned and up to date.If you're interested...
View ArticleDesign Thinking and Wicked Problems for APIs
This is a post from our Featured Guest Series! Ash Hathaway shares her experience as a former developer turned product manager for APIs, and how design thinking has helped her team solves difficult...
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