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From: Asher Vilensky <dorfa1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.software.testing
Subject: Re: need REST API test automation harness/tool
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 04:40:46 -0700 (PDT)
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Many thanks for all the kind replies.  Specifically:
jas...@gmail.com:  I know bourn/korn shell.  Some Perl
Jorgen:  Yes, I'm already using curl.  I'm looking for a tool to automate m=
y curl calls
dumitru.corobceanu:  Will look at Soap UI (although we're doing REST, not S=
OAP).



On Thursday, August 16, 2012 8:33:39 AM UTC-4, Asher Vilensky wrote:
> Does anybody know of a tool to automate REST API testing?  Let me give a =
brief example of what I'm looking for.  Right now I'm using both Poster (Fi=
reFox add-on) or curl to do something like this:
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> Post:  http://host:8080/<some path>/<API name>/<parameters>
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> Content to send (json):
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> {
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> "Name":"Asher-1",
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> "Address1":"some St",
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> "City":"some city",
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> "Zipcode":"00000",
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> "ContactPhone":"11231231234"
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> }
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> I'm doing this manually.  What I'd like to do is automate the above with =
different parameters and different json's.  Also, I have many different API=
's to test.  So the question is if anybody knows of an automated test tool =
that can do this.  I'm already familiar with things like Selenium and other=
 GUI-based tools.  I'm NOT looking for that.
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> Thanks.