Implementation of API testing solution using Amazon Web Services

Application programming interface (API) is nowadays a widely used software architectural component. This is partially caused by the growing popularity of service-oriented (SOA) and microservices architectures, Internet of Things (IoT) devices and a number of other software development trends. This makes API testing a crucial part of integration testing for a considerable amount of applications and services.Due to the tendency towards cloud adoption by a large number of companies, a lot of quality specialists and other participants of development process are likely to face the question of how to run the automated tests they have in cloud. This problem and how it can be resolved in the context of one specific Company is the main focus of this work.The main goal of this work is to compare a function-as-a-service based API testing solution implemented using AWS Lambda services with an API testing solution running on a virtual machine hosted in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. This goal is supported by several objectives: to formulate the criteria of comparison of the two solutions, to create a set of automated API tests analogous to the ones used by the Company, to implement two API testing solutions that are using different cloud services (a cloud-hosted virtual machine and Function-as-a-service specifically) to adjust a set of automated API tests to be executed in cloud; to compare two implementations of API testing solution based on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and AWS Lambda services.