UI Vs API Automation
Which to focus more on..
UI automation is the first place most automation efforts start from
However, the products we are working with have most of the code written at the back end
While the front end has just a small amount of code we have added, all our testing efforts are focused there
With API / Web services automation, one can cover more code coverage
Besides, UI automation is comparatively time intensive, fragile and slow to execute
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