Re: need REST API test automation harness/tool

Newsgroups	comp.software.testing
Date	2013-05-27 01:49 -0700
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Subject	Re: need REST API test automation harness/tool
From	frank.schroeder@gmail.com

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On Thursday, August 16, 2012 2:33:39 PM UTC+2, 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 (FireFox 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.

What we've done is to write the tests in Python using the requests module, nosetest for the test runner and GNU parallel to run tests in parallel from a Jenkins job. We have a handful of helper methods which deal with authentication and also extended the nosetest asserts to handled additional cases (e.g. StringInDictNotEmpty). Pythons' default values on methods are really helping here.

The code is simple and easy to maintain. It gives you full control on the error reporting and you can make writing the tests as simple as you can by adding more helper methods. You can also write lots of very simple and very complex tests in the same framework, e.g. tests that need to create entries, wait 5 seconds, check 3 other systems and so forth. PyCharm from JetBrains is an invaluable tool for debugging the tests for us.

JMeter is good for load testing but I wouldn't want to write a complex test suite with thousands of tests in it. The same goes for the other tools since they all have their limitations or certain focus and are most likely difficult to debug when things go wrong.

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need REST API test automation harness/tool Asher Vilensky <dorfa1@gmail.com> - 2012-08-16 05:33 -0700
  Re: need REST API test automation harness/tool jasnow1@gmail.com - 2012-08-16 06:03 -0700
    Re: need REST API test automation harness/tool Asher Vilensky <dorfa1@gmail.com> - 2012-08-16 11:54 -0700
      Re: need REST API test automation harness/tool jasnow1@gmail.com - 2012-08-16 12:28 -0700
  Re: need REST API test automation harness/tool Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-08-16 21:17 +0000
  Re: need REST API test automation harness/tool jasnow1@gmail.com - 2012-08-16 14:58 -0700
  need REST API test automation harness/tool "dumitru.corobceanu" <dumitru.corobceanu@gmail.com> - 2012-08-16 15:49 -0700
  Re: need REST API test automation harness/tool Asher Vilensky <dorfa1@gmail.com> - 2012-08-17 04:40 -0700
    Re: need REST API test automation harness/tool Asher Vilensky <dorfa1@gmail.com> - 2012-08-17 05:54 -0700
    Re: need REST API test automation harness/tool Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-08-18 08:12 +0000
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