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### REST API Development Environment and Testing:
Postman is widely used and famous for manual and automated REST/RESTful API Tests.
Link: [Get Postman](https://www.getpostman.com/)
A detailed explanation has been given on Quick Code blog on how to use Postman for the best usage:
[Top Tutorials To Learn POSTMAN For REST API Testing](https://medium.com/quick-code/top-tutorials-to-learn-postman-for-rest-api-testing-3bdf9788e0ba)
### API Specification
Having a clear and precise API specification is very important.
The most popular standard for the API specification is [OpenAPI Specification.](https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification)
[Swagger Tool](https://swagger.io/) is commonly used for describing the APIs.
#### More Information
* [How to Design Great APIs - Parse Developer Day 2013](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCdpTji8nxo)
* [The never-ending REST API design debate by Guillaume Laforge](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48azd2VqtP0)