Why mix API and UI steps?

It speeds up tests, reduces flakiness from long UI setup, and lets a single Scenario prove that the UI and the back end agree.

Do I need coding skills for API testing in ACCELQ?

The platform is positioned as codeless, so API steps are built through its interface. You still need to understand requests, responses, and status codes to design good checks.

ACCELQ API and End-to-End Testing

Introduction

Modern applications are more than a web page. Orders, payments, and messages pass through APIs and back-end services. ACCELQ presents web, mobile, and API testing as one unified approach, so a single flow can mix steps across layers. This lesson shows how to design such end-to-end tests.

Prerequisites

Reusable Actions and Scenarios in ACCELQ
A basic understanding of REST APIs

Step-by-Step Guide

Step 1: Know what the platform covers

According to ACCELQ, the unified platform handles web and mobile UI testing and API testing, including REST and SOAP, plus messaging and back-end services, without writing code. Confirm which of these are included in your plan before designing around them.

Step 2: Use the API for setup and cleanup

Create the data a UI test needs with an API call instead of clicking through screens. It is faster, more reliable, and keeps the UI test focused on what it is checking. Use the API again to clean up afterwards.

Step 3: Verify across layers

In one Scenario, perform an action in the UI and then confirm the result through the API or back end. For example, place an order on the website, then verify the order record through the API to confirm the data was saved correctly.

Step 4: Design a sample end-to-end flow

Example: create a customer through the API, sign in to the web application as that customer, place an order in the UI, and verify the order status through the API. Each stage is a reusable Action, and together they form one Scenario.

Step 5: Keep the pyramid in mind

Test business rules at the API level wherever possible, because it is faster and less brittle, and keep UI steps for what only the UI can prove. A few well-chosen end-to-end Scenarios beat many slow, redundant ones.

FAQs

Why mix API and UI steps?: It speeds up tests, reduces flakiness from long UI setup, and lets a single Scenario prove that the UI and the back end agree.
Do I need coding skills for API testing in ACCELQ?: The platform is positioned as codeless, so API steps are built through its interface. You still need to understand requests, responses, and status codes to design good checks.

Summary

Use API steps for fast setup, cleanup, and back-end verification, and UI steps for user-facing behavior. One Scenario that crosses layers gives much stronger evidence than UI-only or API-only tests.