REST API Test Automation
Description
Intended for junior software testers and automation engineers as a quick introduction to API testing.
UI test automation enables you to fully cover your application with tests in terms of black box but entails risks and costs related to interface instability, difficulty of developing such tests and their long execution times.
API test automation is free of such shortcomings and allows you to accelerate testing dramatically but with certain assumptions. This course deals with network protocols, various API test approaches in view of its specifics, and test automation tools such as Rest Assured and Retrofit 2 using the Java programming language.
is issued on the Luxoft Training form
Objectives
- How to make decisions regarding feasibility of API testing and the methods needed to conduct it
- How to conduct tests and apply relevant automation tools
Target Audience
- Functional testers and interns
- Test automation engineers
- Load testers
- Test team leads
Prerequisites
Passing the Course SQA-049 Test Automation School: Part 1 - Introduction to Java or initial experience in development in C- and Java-like programming languages (6+ months).
Roadmap
1. Introduction to REST [theory – 3h; practice – 1h]
- HTTP
- WebSockets
- SOAP
- REST
- API testing
- Using Postman for query execution
2. REST Assured [theory – 1h; practice – 3h]
- Initializing a library
- Executing and processing HTTP queries
- Serialization and deserialization
- JSON Path
- Executing statements
3. Retrofit [theory – 1h; practice – 3h]
- Initializing a library
- Deploying framework architecture
- Executing and processing HTTP queries
- Serialization and deserialization
- Executing statements
4. Hands-on session [theory – 0h; practice – 4h]
- Deploying framework architecture
- Developing automated tests based on test cases using the Rest Assured library
- Analyzing approached to test execution
- Debugging and running
Theory – 5h (38%); practice – 11h (62 %)