# TODO_api-tester.md
## Context
### API Overview
- RESTful API with endpoints for user management, data processing, and file operations
- Authentication via JWT with role-based access control
- Backend services: PostgreSQL, Redis cache, message queue for async tasks
- Third-party integrations: payment gateway, email service, cloud storage
### Performance Baselines
- Current p95 latency: 250ms (simple GET), 800ms (complex queries)
- Current throughput: 750 RPS per instance (mixed workload)
- Error rate: 0.3% (5xx), 4.2% (4xx excluding auth)
- CPU utilization: 65% at current production load
### Target SLAs
- Response time: p95 < 500ms for all endpoints
- Availability: 99.9% uptime
- Error rate: 5xx < 0.1%, 4xx < 5%
- Throughput: support 2x current peak load
### Test Environment
- Staging environment mirroring production (3-node cluster)
- Test data: 1M users, 10M transactions, 500K files
- Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger for tracing
- CI: GitHub Actions with k6 and Newman integration
---
## API Test Plan
### Performance Profiling
- [ ] **APIT-PLAN-1.1 [Baseline Performance Profiling]**:
- **Type**: Performance
- **Target**: All endpoints
- **Success Criteria**: Capture p50/p95/p99 latency, throughput, and resource usage
- **Tools**: k6, Prometheus, Grafana
- [ ] **APIT-PLAN-1.2 [N+1 Query Detection]**:
- **Type**: Performance
- **Target**: Database-heavy endpoints
- **Success Criteria**: Identify and document all N+1 query patterns
- **Tools**: pg_stat_statements, APM tools
- [ ] **APIT-PLAN-1.3 [Cache Effectiveness Testing]**:
- **Type**: Performance
- **Target**: Cache-dependent endpoints
- **Success Criteria**: Measure cache hit rate and response time improvement
- **Tools**: Redis monitoring, k6
### Load Testing
- [ ] **APIT-PLAN-2.1 [Gradual Ramp Load Test]**:
- **Type**: Load
- **Target**: Full API suite
- **Success Criteria**: Identify breaking point concurrency level
- **Tools**: k6 with staged ramp-up
- [ ] **APIT-PLAN-2.2 [Spike Load Test]**:
- **Type**: Load
- **Target**: Critical endpoints
- **Success Criteria**: Handle 10x traffic surge with recovery < 5 minutes
- **Tools**: k6 spike scenario
- [ ] **APIT-PLAN-2.3 [Soak Test]**:
- **Type**: Load
- **Target**: Full API suite
- **Success Criteria**: No memory leaks or degradation over 8 hours
- **Tools**: k6 soak scenario, memory profiling
### Contract Testing
- [ ] **APIT-PLAN-3.1 [OpenAPI Schema Validation]**:
- **Type**: Contract
- **Target**: All endpoints
- **Success Criteria**: 100% schema compliance with zero violations
- **Tools**: Postman/Newman, Schemathesis
- [ ] **APIT-PLAN-3.2 [Backward Compatibility Testing]**:
- **Type**: Contract
- **Target**: Versioned API endpoints
- **Success Criteria**: All existing consumers pass with new versions
- **Tools**: Pact, Postman
### Chaos Testing
- [ ] **APIT-PLAN-4.1 [Network Failure Simulation]**:
- **Type**: Chaos
- **Target**: Service-to-service communication
- **Success Criteria**: Graceful degradation with meaningful errors
- **Tools**: Chaos Mesh, Toxiproxy
- [ ] **APIT-PLAN-4.2 [Database Failure Testing]**:
- **Type**: Chaos
- **Target**: Database-dependent endpoints
- **Success Criteria**: Connection pool exhaustion handled, no 500s
- **Tools**: Chaos Mesh, custom scripts
### Security Testing
- [ ] **APIT-PLAN-5.1 [Injection Vulnerability Scan]**:
- **Type**: Security
- **Target**: All input-accepting endpoints
- **Success Criteria**: Zero SQL/NoSQL injection vulnerabilities
- **Tools**: OWASP ZAP, custom payloads
- [ ] **APIT-PLAN-5.2 [Authentication/Authorization Testing]**:
- **Type**: Security
- **Target**: Protected endpoints
- **Success Criteria**: All role/endpoint combinations verified
- **Tools**: Postman, custom scripts
---
## API Test Items
### Performance Test Items
- [ ] **APIT-ITEM-1.1 [Simple GET Latency]**:
- **Description**: Validate p95 latency for simple GET endpoints
- **Input**: 100 concurrent users, 1000 requests, 5-minute duration
- **Expected Output**: p95 < 100ms, no errors
- **Priority**: Critical
- [ ] **APIT-ITEM-1.2 [Complex Query Performance]**:
- **Description**: Validate p95 latency for complex query endpoints
- **Input**: 50 concurrent users, 500 requests with complex filters
- **Expected Output**: p95 < 500ms, no 5xx errors
- **Priority**: Critical
- [ ] **APIT-ITEM-1.3 [Write Operation Throughput]**:
- **Description**: Validate write endpoint throughput and latency
- **Input**: 20 concurrent writers, 200 requests, mixed create/update
- **Expected Output**: p95 < 1000ms, throughput > 100 RPS
- **Priority**: High
- [ ] **APIT-ITEM-1.4 [File Upload Performance]**:
- **Description**: Validate file upload endpoint under load
- **Input**: 10 concurrent uploads, 10MB files, 100 requests
- **Expected Output**: p95 < 5000ms, no timeouts
- **Priority**: Medium
### Load Test Items
- [ ] **APIT-ITEM-2.1 [Breaking Point Identification]**:
- **Description**: Find concurrency level where error rate exceeds 1%
- **Input**: Incremental load from 100 to 2000 concurrent users
- **Expected Output**: Document breaking point and bottleneck resource
- **Priority**: Critical
- [ ] **APIT-ITEM-2.2 [Auto-scaling Trigger Test]**:
- **Description**: Validate auto-scaling activates at 70% CPU threshold
- **Input**: Sudden 5x traffic increase for 10 minutes
- **Expected Output**: New instances provisioned within 3 minutes
- **Priority**: High
- [ ] **APIT-ITEM-2.3 [Recovery Time Verification]**:
- **Description**: Measure system recovery after overload condition
- **Input**: 30-minute overload, then drop to normal load
- **Expected Output**: Full recovery within 5 minutes
- **Priority**: High
### Contract Test Items
- [ ] **APIT-ITEM-3.1 [Response Schema Compliance]**:
- **Description**: Validate all responses against OpenAPI spec
- **Input**: Full API request suite with edge cases
- **Expected Output**: Zero schema violations, all data types correct
- **Priority**: Critical
- [ ] **APIT-ITEM-3.2 [Error Response Consistency]**:
- **Description**: Verify error responses follow standard format
- **Input**: Invalid requests, unauthorized access, rate-limited requests
- **Expected Output**: Consistent error structure with actionable messages
- **Priority**: High
- [ ] **APIT-ITEM-3.3 [Rate Limiting Fairness]**:
- **Description**: Test rate limiting under concurrent access
- **Input**: 100 users hitting rate limit simultaneously
- **Expected Output**: Fair distribution, no user gets more than limit
- **Priority**: Medium
### Chaos Test Items
- [ ] **APIT-ITEM-4.1 [Circuit Breaker State Transitions]**:
- **Description**: Verify circuit breaker open/half-open/closed transitions
- **Input**: Inject 50% failure rate for 5 minutes
- **Expected Output**: Circuit opens, then half-opens, then recovers
- **Priority**: Critical
- [ ] **APIT-ITEM-4.2 [Cache Failure Fallback]**:
- **Description**: Test behavior when Redis cache is unavailable
- **Input**: Stop Redis service for 10 minutes
- **Expected Output**: Requests served from origin, no 500s
- **Priority**: High
- [ ] **APIT-ITEM-4.3 [Database Connection Pool Exhaustion]**:
- **Description**: Test connection pool exhaustion handling
- **Input**: Reduce pool to 5 connections, send 100 concurrent requests
- **Expected Output**: Queueing with timeout, no thread hangs
- **Priority**: High
### Security Test Items
- [ ] **APIT-ITEM-5.1 [SQL Injection Prevention]**:
- **Description**: Test SQL injection payloads on query parameters
- **Input**: 50 known injection patterns
- **Expected Output**: All payloads rejected or sanitized
- **Priority**: Critical
- [ ] **APIT-ITEM-5.2 [JWT Token Validation]**:
- **Description**: Test token expiration, tampering, and role escalation
- **Input**: Expired, modified, and forged tokens
- **Expected Output**: All invalid tokens rejected with 401
- **Priority**: Critical
- [ ] **APIT-ITEM-5.3 [Information Disclosure Prevention]**:
- **Description**: Check error messages for sensitive information
- **Input**: Trigger various error conditions
- **Expected Output**: No stack traces, paths, or DB details in responses
- **Priority**: High
---
## Proposed Code Changes
### k6 Load Test Script (k6-load-test.js)
```javascript
import http from 'k6/http';
import { check, sleep } from 'k6';
import { Rate, Trend } from 'k6/metrics';
const errorRate = new Rate('error_rate');
const latencyTrend = new Trend('latency');
export const options = {
stages: [
{ duration: '5m', target: 100 }, // ramp up
{ duration: '10m', target: 100 }, // sustained
{ duration: '2m', target: 500 }, // spike
{ duration: '5m', target: 500 }, // peak
{ duration: '5m', target: 0 }, // ramp down
],
thresholds: {
'error_rate': ['rate<0.01'],
'latency': ['p(95)<500'],
},
};
export default function() {
const payload = JSON.stringify({
userId: __VU,
action: 'fetchData',
filters: { date: '2024-01-01' }
});
const params = {
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Authorization': `Bearer ${__ENV.TOKEN}`,
},
};
const res = http.post('http://api.example.com/v1/data', payload, params);
check(res, {
'status is 200': (r) => r.status === 200,
'response time < 500ms': (r) => r.timings.duration < 500,
});
errorRate.add(res.status !== 200);
latencyTrend.add(res.timings.duration);
sleep(Math.random() * 3); // think time
}
```
### Pact Contract Test (contract-test.js)
```javascript
const { Pact } = require('@pact-foundation/pact');
const { Matchers } = require('@pact-foundation/pact');
const provider = new Pact({
consumer: 'api-consumer',
provider: 'api-provider',
port: 8080,
log: './logs/pact.log',
dir: './pacts',
spec: 2,
});
describe('API Contract Test', () => {
beforeAll(() => provider.setup());
afterAll(() => provider.finalize());
test('GET /v1/users/{id} returns user object', async () => {
await provider.addInteraction({
state: 'user exists',
uponReceiving: 'request for user',
withRequest: {
method: 'GET',
path: '/v1/users/123',
headers: { Accept: 'application/json' },
},
willRespondWith: {
status: 200,
headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
body: Matchers.like({
id: Matchers.integer(123),
name: Matchers.string('John Doe'),
email: Matchers.string('john@example.com'),
role: Matchers.string('admin'),
}),
},
});
const response = await fetch('http://localhost:8080/v1/users/123', {
headers: { Accept: 'application/json' },
});
expect(response.status).toBe(200);
const body = await response.json();
expect(body.id).toBe(123);
expect(body.name).toBe('John Doe');
});
});
```
### Monitoring Alert Configuration (prometheus-alerts.yml)
```yaml
groups:
- name: api-performance
rules:
- alert: HighLatency
expr: histogram_quantile(0.95, sum(rate(http_request_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) by (le, endpoint)) > 0.5
for: 5m
labels:
severity: critical
annotations:
summary: "High p95 latency on {{ $labels.endpoint }}"
- alert: HighErrorRate
expr: sum(rate(http_requests_total{status=~"5.."}[5m])) / sum(rate(http_requests_total[5m])) > 0.001
for: 5m
labels:
severity: critical
annotations:
summary: "Error rate above 0.1%"
- alert: HighCPUUsage
expr: avg(rate(process_cpu_seconds_total[5m])) > 0.7
for: 10m
labels:
severity: warning
annotations:
summary: "CPU usage above 70%"
```
---
## Commands
### Local Testing Commands
```bash
# Install dependencies
npm install -g k6 newman
# Run performance tests
k6 run --env TOKEN=<jwt_token> k6-load-test.js
# Run contract tests
npm run test:contract
# Run functional tests
newman run api-tests.postman_collection.json -e staging.postman_environment.json
# Run security scan
zap-api-scan.py -t https://staging-api.example.com/v1 -f openapi.json -r report.html
```
### CI/CD Commands (GitHub Actions)
```yaml
# .github/workflows/api-testing.yml
name: API Testing
on: [push, pull_request]
jobs:
performance-test:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Run k6 tests
run: |
k6 run --env TOKEN=${{ secrets.TEST_TOKEN }} k6-load-test.js
contract-test:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Run Pact tests
run: npm run test:contract
env:
PACT_BROKER_URL: ${{ secrets.PACT_BROKER_URL }}
```
### Chaos Testing Commands
```bash
# Install Chaos Mesh
helm install chaos-mesh chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh --namespace chaos-testing
# Run network failure experiment
kubectl apply -f - <<EOF
apiVersion: chaos-mesh.org/v1alpha1
kind: NetworkChaos
metadata:
name: network-delay
spec:
action: delay
mode: one
selector:
namespaces: ['production']
delay:
latency: '100ms'
jitter: '20ms'
EOF
# Run database failure experiment
kubectl apply -f - <<EOF
apiVersion: chaos-mesh.org/v1alpha1
kind: PodChaos
metadata:
name: db-pod-failure
spec:
action: pod-failure
mode: one
selector:
labelSelectors:
app: postgres
EOF
```
---
## Quality Assurance Checklist
- [ ] All critical endpoints have performance, contract, and security test coverage
- [ ] Load test scenarios cover baseline, peak, spike, and soak conditions
- [ ] Contract tests validate against the current API specification
- [ ] Resilience tests cover service failures, network issues, and resource exhaustion
- [ ] Test results include quantified metrics with comparison against target SLAs
- [ ] Monitoring and alerting recommendations are tied to specific SLI/SLO thresholds
- [ ] All test scripts are reproducible and suitable for CI/CD integration
- [ ] Security testing covers injection, authentication, rate limiting, and information disclosure
- [ ] Chaos testing includes kill switch and recovery procedures
- [ ] All test data is realistic and includes edge cases
- [ ] Performance baselines are established before optimization
- [ ] Test results are documented with actionable recommendations ranked by impact
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