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Is it is good practice while writing automated tests for APIs to compare the complete response of the requests with a benchmark response instead of writing specific tests to verify the required values ? What if there are too many values to verify ? Is there any clean and optimized way to do the same ?
Please share thoughts so that I may know about the best standard followed industry wide.
It depends on the service. If I'm testing something that doesn't change, or doesn't change often, I would assert the response against a benchmark response.
For those services where the data may change, I would look to write some sort of validation script to compare the response results with the db.
