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Batch
Date: Sept 2nd @9:00AM
Faculty: Mr. Vishwa (12+ Yrs Of Exp,..)
Duration: 45 Days
Venue
:
DURGA SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS,
Flat No : 202,
2nd Floor,
HUDA Maitrivanam,
Ameerpet, Hyderabad - 500038
Ph.No: +91 - 8885252627, 9246212143, 80 96 96 96 96
Syllabus:
API Development, Testing
&
Security Engineering Program
& Ai-Driven API Automation
45-Hour Curriculum at a Glance
Module |
Hours |
Focus |
1. API & Web Fundamentals |
3 |
APIs, client-server, requests, responses, JSON |
2. HTTP, REST & API Design |
4 |
Methods, status codes, URLs, versioning, pagination |
3. API Development Fundamentals |
5 |
Node.js, TypeScript, Express, routes, middleware |
4. Build REST APIs |
5 |
CRUD, validation, controllers and error handling |
5. Database & API Integration |
4 |
Database concepts, ORM, CRUD integration |
6. Authentication & Authorization |
4 |
JWT, API keys, OAuth/OIDC concepts, RBAC |
7. API Testing |
4 |
Functional, negative, schema and auth testing |
8. API Automation Testing |
3 |
Playwright API tests, chaining, test data |
9. API Security Fundamentals |
3 |
Attack surface, OWASP API concepts, secure design |
10. API Security Testing |
4 |
Authorized security tests and secure behavior validation |
11. Documentation & API Lifecycle |
2 |
OpenAPI/Swagger, contracts, versioning |
12. AI-Driven API Development
& Testing |
2 |
AI-assisted design, tests, debugging |
13. Real-Time Secure API Capstone |
2 |
Build, test, secure and document |
TOTAL |
45 |
Complete practical program |
MODULE 1 — API & WEB FUNDAMENTALS ENGINEERING
Duration: 3 Hours
What You Will Learn
- What is an API and why do we use it?
- Frontend, backend and API roles
- Client-server architecture
- Request and response
- JSON fundamentals
- Endpoints and resources
- REST API basics
- Real-world API architecture
Hands-On Practical
Lab: Trace a request from a web or mobile application through an API to backend logic and a database.
Teaching Flow / Example
Client / Mobile App
↓ Request
API
↓
Backend Logic
↓
Database
↓
API Response
MODULE 2 — HTTP, REST & API DESIGN
Duration: 4 Hours
What You Will Learn
- GET, POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE
- URLs, URIs and endpoints
- Headers
- Path and query parameters
- Request and response bodies
- Status codes
- Versioning
- Pagination, filtering and sorting
- RESTful resource naming
- Consistent error responses
Hands-On Practical
Lab: Design a User Management API contract before writing implementation code.
Teaching Flow / Example
GET /api/users
POST /api/users
GET /api/users/:id
PUT /api/users/:id
PATCH /api/users/:id
DELETE /api/users/:id
MODULE 3 — API DEVELOPMENT FUNDAMENTALS
Duration: 5 Hours
What You Will Learn
- Node.js fundamentals
- npm and package management
- TypeScript project basics
- Express.js setup
- Routes and controllers
- Middleware
- Request handling
- Response handling
- Environment variables
- Centralized error handling
Hands-On Practical
Lab: Create the first Express API and return structured JSON responses.
Teaching Flow / Example
app.get('/users', (req, res) => {
res.status(200).json({
message: 'Users retrieved successfully'
});
});
MODULE 4 — BUILD REST APIs
Duration: 5 Hours
What You Will Learn
- CRUD design
- Create, read, update and delete operations
- Input validation
- Business logic separation
- Controller and service structure
- Error handling
- Response standards
- Negative request handling
Hands-On Practical
Project Lab: Build a User Management REST API with complete CRUD operations.
Teaching Flow / Example
CREATE → POST
READ → GET
UPDATE → PUT / PATCH
DELETE → DELETE
MODULE 5 — DATABASE & API INTEGRATION
Duration: 4 Hours
What You Will Learn
- Why APIs need databases
- SQL vs NoSQL concepts
- Database connections
- ORM concepts
- CRUD persistence
- Data validation
- Database error handling
- Secure connection configuration
Hands-On Practical
Lab: Connect the API to one primary database and persist user records.
Teaching Flow / Example
Client
↓
REST API
↓
Controller
↓
Service
↓
Database
MODULE 6 — AUTHENTICATION & AUTHORIZATION
Duration: 4 Hours
What You Will Learn
- Authentication: who are you?
- Authorization: what can you do?
- API keys
- Basic authentication concepts
- Bearer tokens
- JWT
- OAuth 2.0 concepts
- OpenID Connect concepts
- RBAC
- Token expiry and refresh concepts
- Secrets and environment variables
Hands-On Practical
Lab: Build protected endpoints and verify that access depends on valid identity and permissions.
Teaching Flow / Example
User Login
↓
Authentication
↓
Token Issued
↓
Protected API Request
↓
Token Validation
↓
Authorization Check
↓
Resource Allowed / Denied
MODULE 7 — API TESTING
Duration: 4 Hours
What You Will Learn
- Postman or equivalent API client workflow
- Functional testing
- Positive testing
- Negative testing
- Boundary testing
- Schema validation
- Authentication testing
- Authorization testing
- Status and response validation
- Error testing
Hands-On Practical
Lab: Create a professional API test suite covering valid and invalid requests.
Teaching Flow / Example
POST /users
Valid input → Expected 201 Created
Invalid email → Expected 400 Bad Request
Missing token → Expected 401 Unauthorized
MODULE 8 — API AUTOMATION TESTING
Duration: 3 Hours
What You Will Learn
- Automated API testing with Playwright
- Request contexts
- API assertions
- Environment variables
- Dynamic test data
- Setup and cleanup
- Request chaining
- API + UI integration
Hands-On Practical
Lab: Create data through an API, validate it, then clean it up automatically.
Teaching Flow / Example
POST /users
↓
Capture user ID
↓
GET /users/{id}
↓
Validate response
↓
DELETE /users/{id}
MODULE 9 — API SECURITY FUNDAMENTALS
Duration: 3 Hours
What You Will Learn
- What is API security?
- API attack surface
- Secure API architecture
- OWASP API security concepts
- Authentication weaknesses
- Authorization weaknesses
- Broken access control concepts
- Excessive data exposure
- Security misconfiguration
- Rate limiting
- Input validation
- Secure error handling
- Secrets management
Hands-On Practical
Teaching focus: understand the security requirement first, then verify secure behavior in APIs you own or are authorized to test.
Teaching Flow / Example
Secure API Thinking
Identity
↓
Permissions
↓
Input Validation
↓
Business Rules
↓
Data Protection
↓
Safe Error Handling
MODULE 10 — API SECURITY TESTING
Duration: 4 Hours
What You Will Learn
- Authorized security testing methodology
- Invalid and expired token behavior
- Authorization and role testing
- Object-level access checks
- Input validation
- Missing and unexpected fields
- Boundary values
- Rate-limit verification
- Sensitive data exposure checks
- Secure configuration review
- Finding documentation and remediation guidance
Hands-On Practical
Lab: Perform safe, authorized tests against a training API and verify that insecure requests are rejected correctly.
Teaching Flow / Example
Security Requirement
↓
Define Authorized Test
↓
Send Controlled Request
↓
Observe API Behavior
↓
Verify Secure Response
↓
Document Finding / Fix
MODULE 11 — API DOCUMENTATION & LIFECYCLE
Duration: 2 Hours
What You Will Learn
- OpenAPI concepts
- Swagger UI concepts
- API contracts
- Request examples
- Response examples
- Versioning
- Deprecation
- Design → Develop → Test → Secure → Deploy → Monitor
Hands-On Practical
Lab: Document the User Management API with clear requests, responses and error examples.
Teaching Flow / Example
Design → Develop → Document → Test
↓
Secure
↓
Deploy
↓
Monitor
↓
Improve / Version
MODULE 12 — AI-DRIVEN API DEVELOPMENT & TESTING
Duration: 2 Hours
What You Will Learn
- AI-assisted API design
- Generate test ideas from requirements
- Generate request payload ideas
- Positive and negative test cases
- Documentation drafting
- AI-assisted debugging
- AI-assisted security review ideas
- Human review and validation of AI-generated code
Hands-On Practical
Lab: Requirement →AI-assisted draft → engineer review → implementation → automated test.
Teaching Flow / Example
Requirement
↓
AI-Assisted Draft
↓
Human Review
↓
API Development
↓
Automated Tests
↓
Security Validation
MODULE 13 — REAL-TIME SECURE API CAPSTONE PROJECT
Duration: 2 Hours
What You Will Learn
- User registration and login
- JWT-based protected endpoints
- Role-based access
- CRUD API
- Database integration
- Input validation
- Error handling
- Functional tests
- Automated API tests
- Security test cases
- API documentation
Hands-On Practical
Final Project: build a small but complete secure User Management API and demonstrate the full lifecycle.
Teaching Flow / Example
Design
↓
Build
↓
Authenticate
↓
Authorize
↓
Test
↓
Automate
↓
Secure
↓
Document
Final Student Outcomes
✓ Understand how APIs work in modern applications and cloud architectures.
✓ Design REST APIs with clean endpoints, request and response patterns.
✓ Build APIs using Node.js, TypeScript and Express concepts.
✓ Implement CRUD operations and database integration.
✓ Apply authentication and authorization concepts to protected APIs.
✓ Test APIs manually using positive, negative and boundary scenarios.
✓ Automate API testing with Playwright.
✓ Understand common API security risks and secure design principles.
✓ Perform safe, authorized API security testing and validate secure behavior.
✓ Document APIs using OpenAPI/Swagger concepts.
✓ Use AI responsibly to accelerate API design, testing and debugging.
✓ Build and present a complete real-time secure API project.
Recommended Course Positioning
Build APIs • Test APIs • Secure APIs • Automate APIs
This program is ideal as a practical API engineering foundation. In 45 hours, students gain end-to-end exposure and hands-on skills; deeper specialization in backend engineering or advanced API security can be offered as separate advanced programs.
Suggested Class Pattern
20% Concepts →20% Live Demonstration → 40% Hands-On Labs →
20% Debugging, Review & Homework
