(Continued from previous question...) What is API Testing? An API (Application Programming Interface) is a collection of software functions and procedures, called API calls, that can be executed by other software applications. Application developers code that links to existing APIs to make use of their functionality.
It has been named CloudStore rather than the Government Application Store, the name under which it was developed, and makes more than 1,700 services from 258 suppliers available through a catalogue for the first tranche of the G-Cloud service.
Cloud-computing services can range from data storage to functional programs, including accounting, customer-service tools and remote desktop hosting. According to a study by Neovise, an IT research firm that focuses on cloud technology, 54 percent of organizations use cloud computing. Of these organizations, 74 percent use some combination of different types of clouds, with 40Â­-50 percent of them using multiple services of the same type of cloud.