Use Cases

1. Comprehensive API Testing

Use Case

You have developed code in Catalyst AppSail and need to perform thorough API testing to ensure stability.

How Catalyst ZEST Helps:

Define your application’s API in the SPEC studio, and Catalyst ZEST automates API testing with various input possibilities, ensuring comprehensive coverage.

2. SDK Generation and User Documentation

Use Case

After writing code in Catalyst AppSail, you want to provide users with SDKs in different languages and create helpful documentation.

How Catalyst ZEST Helps:

By using API Automation, Spec Studio, and Docs Builder components of Catalyst ZEST, you can automatically generate SDKs in various languages and create user-friendly documentation for your API.

3. End-to-End API Development

Use Case

You need to create an API from scratch, thoroughly test it, generate SDKs in multiple languages, and document the entire process.

How Catalyst ZEST Helps:

Utilize API Automation, Spec Studio, and Docs Builder to develop, test and document your API, covering the entire development lifecycle.

4. Automated API Automation for Catalyst Application

Use Case

You want to automate testing for an API used within your Catalyst application.

How Catalyst ZEST Helps

Simply input your parameters into the ZSPEC file, and the API automation component of Catalyst ZEST will automate the testing process for the specified API used in your Catalyst application.

5. Boilerplate Code Generation for Catalyst AppSail

Use Case

You require the source code for Catalyst AppSail based on your code.

How Catalyst ZEST Helps

Use the Spec Studio to define your application’s API, and Catalyst ZEST will generate the source code for Catalyst AppSail, streamlining the process of obtaining the necessary source code.