API Testing Recipes in Ruby
API Testing Recipes in Ruby
The problem solving guide to API Testing
About the Book
About the Author
Table of Contents
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Preface
- Who should read this book
- How to read this book
- Recipe test scripts
- Send me feedback
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1. Introduction
- Automated API Testing
- An API test example
- Skills required
- Use Ruby
- RSpec Test Framework
- Avoid SoapUI alike tools
- The benefits of text scripting
- Testing Tool
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2. SOAP Web Service
- Construct SOAP Request
- SOAP Web Service call with Ruby
- SOAP Request with Dynamic Data
- Assert SOAP response
- Use SOAP client: Savon
- Review
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3. RESTful Web Services
- LIST all records
- CREATE a record
- READ a record
- UPDATE a record
- DELETE a record
- Using HTTP and REST client: rest-client
- CREATE or UPDATE records with dynamic request data
- REST web service returns JSON
- REST web service sends JSON
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4. Parse Response
- Parse XML with REXML
- Parse XML with Nokogiri
- Strip out namespaces in XML
- Parse XML with Nokogiri in Slop mode
- Parse JSON
- Pretty print JSON
- Parse CSV
- Parse RSS Feed
- Extract pattern text with Regular Expression
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5. Email
- Send text email - SMTP
- Send HTML email to multiple recipients - SMTP
- Send email with Gmail
- Send email with Mail gem
- Multi-part email with Mail gem
- Check POP3 Email
- Verify saved email
- Verify multi-part email with attachments
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6. Download Binary File
- Download file from static URL
- Verify the file integrity with MD5 or SHA256 Checksum
- Verify compressed Zip
- Verify PDF
- Verify downloaded Excel file
- Verify PNG
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7. Database
- SQLite
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- MS SQL server
- Easier Database Interaction with ActiveRecord
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8. Generate Request Data
- Generate dynamic dates
- Generate random boolean value
- Generate random number
- Generate name and address
- General unique IDs
- Generate test files at specific size
- Generate various text files from templates
- Error handling in ERB templates
- Generate XML
- Modify existing XML
- Generate JSON
- Modify existing JSON
- Generate JSON with model
- Generate Zip file
- Generate CSV file
- Generate Excel file with spreadsheet
- Generate Excel file with spreadsheet
- Generate open XML spreadsheet with templates
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9. Headless HTML
- Parse HTML with Nokogiri
- Headless web browsing with Mechanize and parse HTML
- Manage Cookies
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10. Synergy of API and Functional Testing
- Check emails with MailCatcher
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11. Test Execution
- Execute RSpec tests from command line
- Execute MiniTest tests from command line
- Custom MiniTest test execution with Rake
- Custom RSpec test execution with Rake
- Run as part of Continuous Testing
- Afterword
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Resources
- Books
- Tools
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