> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://learning.contextqa.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://learning.contextqa.com/api-testing.md).

# API Testing

- [API Testing Overview](https://learning.contextqa.com/api-testing/api-testing.md): Automate REST API testing in ContextQA — request configuration, response validation, API chaining, and hybrid API-plus-UI test flows, all with no code.
- [Creating API Tests](https://learning.contextqa.com/api-testing/creating-api-tests.md): Step-by-step guide to creating API test cases in ContextQA — configuring requests, using variables, capturing responses, chaining calls, and importing from Swagger.
- [Validating Responses](https://learning.contextqa.com/api-testing/validating-responses.md): Response validation techniques in ContextQA — payload validation, structure validation, status codes, and header assertions.
- [API Chaining](https://learning.contextqa.com/api-testing/api-chaining.md): Connect multiple API calls in a single test case by extracting response fields into variables and passing them to subsequent steps — including hybrid API and UI flows.
- [Tutorial: Your First API Test](https://learning.contextqa.com/api-testing/api-testing-tutorial.md): Build a two-step API test that authenticates against a REST endpoint, captures the access token, chains it into a second request, and validates the response — all without writing code.
- [Mock API Testing](https://learning.contextqa.com/api-testing/mock-api-testing.md): Capture real API responses during test execution and replay them as mocks on future runs for faster, more stable tests.


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