Automated testing for REST Api [closed]

Answer 1

I used SOAP UI for functional and automated testing. SOAP UI allows you to run the tests on the click of a button. There is also a spring controllers testing page created by Ted Young. I used this article to create Rest unit tests in our application.

Answer 2

I have used TestNG and Apache HTTP classes to build my own REST API test framework, I developed this concept after working in Selenium for two years.

Everything is same, except you should use Apache HTTP classes instead of Selenium classes.

give a try, its really cute and good, you've all the power to customize your test framework to your fullest possibilities.

Answer 3

Frisby is a REST API testing framework built on node.js and Jasmine that makes testing API endpoints easy, fast, and fun. http://frisbyjs.com

Example:

var frisby = require('../lib/frisby');

var URL = 'http://localhost:3000/';
var URL_AUTH = 'http://username:password@localhost:3000/';

frisby.globalSetup({ // globalSetup is for ALL requests
  request: {
    headers: { 'X-Auth-Token': 'fa8426a0-8eaf-4d22-8e13-7c1b16a9370c' }
  }
});

frisby.create('GET user johndoe')
  .get(URL + '/users/3.json')
  .expectStatus(200)
  .expectJSONTypes({
    id: Number,
    username: String,
    is_admin: Boolean
  })
  .expectJSON({
    id: 3,
    username: 'johndoe',
    is_admin: false
  })
  // 'afterJSON' automatically parses response body as JSON and passes it as an argument
  .afterJSON(function(user) {
    // You can use any normal jasmine-style assertions here
    expect(1+1).toEqual(2);

    // Use data from previous result in next test
    frisby.create('Update user')
      .put(URL_AUTH + '/users/' + user.id + '.json', {tags: ['jasmine', 'bdd']})
      .expectStatus(200)
    .toss();
  })
.toss();

Answer 4

I collaborated with one of my coworkers to start the PyRestTest framework for this reason: https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest

Although you can work with the tests in Python, the normal test format is in YAML.

Sample test suite for a basic REST app -- verifies that APIs respond correctly, checking HTTP status codes, though you can make it examine response bodies as well:

---
- config:
    - testset: "Tests using test app"

- test: # create entity
    - name: "Basic get"
    - url: "/api/person/"
- test: # create entity
    - name: "Get single person"
    - url: "/api/person/1/"
- test: # create entity
    - name: "Get single person"
    - url: "/api/person/1/"
    - method: 'DELETE'
- test: # create entity by PUT
    - name: "Create/update person"
    - url: "/api/person/1/"
    - method: "PUT"
    - body: '{"first_name": "Gaius","id": 1,"last_name": "Baltar","login": "gbaltar"}'
    - headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
- test: # create entity by POST
    - name: "Create person"
    - url: "/api/person/"
    - method: "POST"
    - body: '{"first_name": "Willim","last_name": "Adama","login": "theadmiral"}'
    - headers: {Content-Type: application/json}

Answer 5

API test automation, up to once per minute, is a service available through theRightAPI. You create your test scenarios, and execute them. Once those tests do what you expect them to, you can then schedule them. Tests can be 'chained' together for scenarios that require authentication. For example, you can have a test that make an OAuth request to Twitter, and creates a shared token that can then be used by any other test. Tests can also have validation criteria attached to ensure http status codes, or even detailed inspection of the responses using javascript or schema validation. Once tests are scheduled, you can then have alerts notify you as soon as a particular test fails validation, or is behaving out of established ranges for response time or response size.

Answer 6

I implemented many automation cases based on REST Assured , a jave DSL for testing restful service. https://code.google.com/p/rest-assured/

The syntax is easy, it supports json and xml. https://code.google.com/p/rest-assured/wiki/Usage

Before that, I tried SOAPUI and had some issues with the free version. Plus the cases are in xml files which hard to extend and reuse, simply I don't like