1-Day Rest Assured for API Testing Crash Course

This intensive, one-day course equips you with the fundamentals of Rest Assured, a popular Java library for automating API testing. Through a blend of lectures, demonstrations, and exercises, you'll gain the skills to write effective API tests and integrate them into your development workflow.

Target Audience:

• Software developers

• QA testers

• Anyone interested in learning API testing with Rest Assured

Course Prerequisites:

• Basic understanding of Java programming

• Familiarity with HTTP concepts (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE)

Course Agenda:

Introduction:

• Rest Assured Fundamentals:

  • What is Rest Assured and its role in API testing?

  • Setting up Rest Assured and its dependencies

  • Introduction to Rest Assured DSL (Domain Specific Language)

• HTTP Requests with Rest Assured:

  • Building GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE requests

  • Specifying request parameters and headers

  • Sending API requests and handling responses

• Verifying API Responses:

  • Extracting data from JSON and XML responses

  • Asserting response status codes, headers, and body content

  • Using response chaining for concise assertions

Advanced Rest Assured Features:

• Parameterization of tests with data providers

• Working with authentication (basic, token-based)

• Handling multipart requests and file uploads

• BDD (Behavior Driven Development) with Rest Assured:

  • Integrating Rest Assured with BDD frameworks like Cucumber

  • Writing test scenarios in a readable format

• Handling Errors and Exceptions:

  • Handling different types of API errors and exceptions

  • Using response time assertions

  • Implementing retries and timeouts

Exercises:

Throughout the course, you'll be presented with exercises that reinforce the concepts covered in the lectures and demonstrations. These exercises will provide you with hands-on experience building and executing API tests with Rest Assured.

Course Wrap-up:

• Q&A session

• Resources for further learning

Note: This is a sample schedule and may be adjusted based on the participants' pace and complexity of exercises.

By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

• Write basic and advanced API tests using Rest Assured

• Send and verify API requests with different HTTP methods

• Assert response status codes, headers, and body content

• Use BDD principles to create descriptive API test scenarios

• Handle errors and exceptions in your API tests