{"slug": "checksum-api-agent-generates-and-maintains-stateful-api-tests", "title": "Checksum API Agent generates and maintains stateful API tests", "summary": "Checksum launched the API Agent, a continuous testing agent that generates and maintains journey-based tests for backend APIs. The agent builds multi-step tests that mirror real product usage, keeps them current as APIs change, and runs them in existing pipelines, addressing the gap created by AI coding tools adding endpoints faster than engineers can write tests.", "body_md": "Checksum has launched the API Agent, a continuous testing agent that generates and maintains journey-based tests for backend APIs. The agent builds multi-step tests that mirror how a product actually uses its API, keeps them current as the API changes, and runs them in a team’s existing pipeline. It closes the gap that opens when AI coding tools add endpoints faster than engineers can write tests to cover them. Spec-based generators stop at the endpoint. … [More ](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/25/checksum-api-agent-generates-and-maintains-stateful-api-tests/)\n\nThe post [Checksum API Agent generates and maintains stateful API tests](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/25/checksum-api-agent-generates-and-maintains-stateful-api-tests/) appeared first on [Help Net Security](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/checksum-api-agent-generates-and-maintains-stateful-api-tests", "canonical_source": "https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/25/checksum-api-agent-generates-and-maintains-stateful-api-tests/", "published_at": "2026-06-25 13:51:39+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-25 14:14:48.472631+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Checksum", "API Agent"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/checksum-api-agent-generates-and-maintains-stateful-api-tests", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/checksum-api-agent-generates-and-maintains-stateful-api-tests.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/checksum-api-agent-generates-and-maintains-stateful-api-tests.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/checksum-api-agent-generates-and-maintains-stateful-api-tests.jsonld"}}