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API test automation: GUI tool vs programmatic approach?
I have had exactly the same assignment earlier this year, for APIs written in C#. Options I have (tried to) build a PoC for were:
SoapUI
Postman
Own framework built in C# using either RestSharp or ...
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What tests to automate in a full stack web application? API vs UI
You should always pick tests carefully when it comes to test automation. :)
One of the reasons, as you said, is overlap (and with that, execution time and robustness).
An example to clarify:
Your API ...
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Free sites for testing POST REST API calls?
As this answer on Stackoverflow states.
https://httpbin.org/ allows you to echo back your request, to see that it does what you expect.
this is the list of services
It echoes the data used in your ...
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How to wait for an api request to return a response?
HTTP is a synchronous protocol* so active polling is not an option. You need to wait until client receives response or request times out. There are two ways to constrain synchronous behaviour with ...
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How to verify response body as a test in postman
As @Mache says, you search for each value.
var jsonData = pm.response.json();
pm.test("Verify Json values", function () {
pm.expect(jsonData.data.id).is.to.equal(2);
pm.expect(jsonData....
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What tests to automate in a full stack web application? API vs UI
There is no concept of overlapping testcases in different test levels,
Both are completely isolated
Just because API works fine you cannot guarantee UI works fine.
Imagine all your API tests passing ...
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Useful real-world APIs to test against
GitHub is really useful for lists of resources and I came across one yesterday that is a collection of free APIs for use in web development. <- I think you'd be good to test most any of these APIs ...
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Free sites for testing POST REST API calls?
https://www.postman.com/explore
it have many collections and examples, you can create a account and fork it and use.
or create your own mock server here and learn:
https://app.mocklab.io/
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How to avoid API tests duplicating Unit tests
The tests serve different purposes. Overlap is good.
The 'overlap' of higher order tests (such as API) and Unit tests should be high. In fact 100% would be good.
Unit tests mock and stub all ...
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What is the simplest way to rewrite Postman requests to C#
ReSharper is an Visual Studio IDE Plugin for C# by JetBrains. This won't help you much unless you want to write everything from scratch.
Postman has the ability to generate code snippets for various ...
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How to create automation framework for automation of REST APIs?
REST-Assured is one good option.
I have used it with Java. It's a really good option and gives you the flexibility to do a lot when it comes to API testing.
Refer to the below link for further ...
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Assistance with a DELETE request in Postman
You need to provide token generated create Token API here in header under cookie field.
and URL used in not as mentioned in API
https://restful-booker.herokuapp.com/booking/{bookingID}
Please ...
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What is the best approach to the REST APIs automation?
A few thoughts:
Automation code should be reviewed, so I don't think that's a con
Not sure why failing test cases would keep your build from compiling. Even if the test code lives in the same repo ...
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What tests to automate in a full stack web application? API vs UI
TL;DR: you will have overlap between E2E and API integration test cases, in terms of the same endpoints being exercised in both and that's OK - it helps you figure out where the problem is if (...when)...
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What are the good java Frameworks/Libraries for REST API Automation Testing?
If you are looking to verify JSON response, there is a library called postman-bdd for Postman, which lets you write BDD styled test, using the chai-mocha syntax (but can also be used to write jasmine ...
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Postman vs writing tests programmatically using curl or related vs unit tests
Let's take a step back and start by asking what are you trying to achieve.
Rest API is an API like any other API, hiding behind it a lot or a little.
I suppose that in our case there is a whole system ...
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What is the best approach to the REST APIs automation?
As with any project, it depends :). That said,
(1) and (2) require close coordination with development team. Depending on the team structure it may be a good thing or a bad thing :). I also suspect ...
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Testing REST api with postman
It depends
Some things you may want to consider:
Badly formed input - how does the API handle badly formed input? Can you send it something from the Big List of Naughty Strings and get back data you ...
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Consume POST request data to GET and DEL requests
This what the Postman variables do,
Assuming that your response data is:
{
name: "something"
user:{
id:"12"
}
}
in the test script section, add below command
let jsonData = JSON....
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Rest API and resources validation from QA perspective
Just to add one more explanation.
In REST API, the / indicates a hierarchical relationship between resources. This one rule is already broken when you send a POST req to /api/v1/product/2 and 2 means ...
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How can one test the security measures or vulnerability when it comes to API testing?
That's a broad question. I recommend taking one or two resources and start exploring from there. You can find some ideas about API testing here and specifically if you ask about security, you can ...
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Free sites for testing POST REST API calls?
https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/
{JSON}
Free fake API for testing and prototyping.
Powered by JSON Server + LowDB
As of Dec 2020, serving ~1.8 billion requests each month.
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Free sites for testing POST REST API calls?
Here is a good website for that: https://restful-api.dev/
You can send POST, PUT, DELETE, etc. They actually store the data which you create via POST. So, if you create an object using POST, you can ...
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What are the good java Frameworks/Libraries for REST API Automation Testing?
Retrofit
OkHttp
curl command line tool
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Best practices for rest-assured api automation testing
I don't think that best practices vary just because the underlying technology is rest-assured.
We use cucumber to organize our tests. The cucumber steps are written in java. Some of our tests are ...
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BDD & Rest API automation
Short answer is yes. It is really okay to use bdd tools to automate testing of a Rest API
UI testing involves HTML, JavaScript and a DOM. The BDD should describe behavior. Given, When, Then ...
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API test automation: GUI tool vs programmatic approach?
In a similar case, we went with writing our own very light weight framework.
Reasons are:
We were not using many of the features of Soap UI, so just to make Restful calls, Soap UI is an overkill
The ...
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How to Run Entire Test Plan continuously for multiple Times in JMeter(Not thread group )
Check out Test Fragments and Module Controller test elements.
You can define your so called "Thread Groups" as Test Fragments and refer them via Module Controllers orchestrating the test flow and ...
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How to store all and multiple response data using setProperty Function in jmeter
I would recommend switching to JSR223 Assertion and Groovy language as:
Since JMeter 3.1 it is recommended to use JSR223 Test Elements and Groovy for scripting
Groovy has built-in JSON support so ...
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How can I mock a c# restful webservice and test it using java?
How can I using java and something like rest-assured test this API? can I some how mock it to test or do I need to write my automation code in c# in order to do this?
The same way you would with a ...
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