Testing the Swagger Petstore: Reviewing API Documentation Formatted in OpenAPI 3.0 with Swagger UI

For this next project, we will be examining the test site Swagger Petstore - OpenAI 3.0 at https://petstore3.swagger.io/https://petstore3.swagger.io/If we wanted to really dive deep into creating API documentation, we could use:I'dRatherBeWriting's Free Documenting APIs course, showing an Introduction to REST APIs, using APIs like a developer, Documenting API endpoints, the Open API spec, Testing API docs, Publishing API docs, and more... ... But that goes too deep for this blog post. Before we begin, let's get into some background information. What is Swagger?According to OpenAPISpec.com's article, Who Created Swagger?, Swagger was created in 2010 by Tony Tam, the CTO of Wordnik, an online dictionary company that leveraged so many APIs, it was difficult for the six person engineering team to manage and scale them, writing API-clients and documentation by hand. After a 3 AM conversation, they thought... what if the API documentation could describe itself? There already was WADL, the…