Automating and Testing a Rest API: A Case Study in API Testing Using: Java, Rest Assured, Postman, Tracks, Curl and HTTP Proxies (Richardson MR Alan J.)(Paperback)

Have you ever wished that you had a worked example of how to test a REST API? Not just automate the API, but how to interact with it, using command line and GUI tools, to support your manual interactive testing. Then take your testing forward into automating the API? That's what this book provides. A step by step case study covering: - How to read the REST API documentation.- How to tell if the application is using the API.- How to interact with the API from the command line with cURL.- Automating with BASH and Windows Command Line.- Sending API requests through an HTTP Proxy so you can see in detail the requests and responses.- How to use HTTP Proxies to create data in the application through Fuzzing.- Postman REST API GUI tool.- Automate 'under the GUI' parts of the application that don't have an API.- Automate the API with Java using REST Assured.- Build abstraction code to make your
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