API Test Automation Framework

This project demonstrates how pytest can be put together to create an API automation tool to assist in regression testing.

Multivation for putting together an API testing framework

when testing apis I usually found myself repeating alot test code and I knew this is wrong. I strongly believe that api tests should be:

- Test data driven - scenarios should drive tests.
- There should be minimal repetition on test code. DRY Principal
- Stand alone - tests should not depend on each other, or else there should be minimal dependancy.
- Test dependancy comes in handy when testing business logic.
- Any part of API under test should be configurable, i.e remove any hard coding as much as possible.

Therefore there is a need to organize test process or flow to ensure that apis tests yield maximum benefits like test accuracy,maintainance and speed.

Organization of api framework: process

1. setup code(code executed before any test is run).
2. session management - managing session objects and data.
3. Test data generation - important for concurrent tests.
4. parametrizing tests - since the framework is test data driven and need to run tests concurrently.
5. writting a conftest file e.g fixtures and extra commandline arguments
6. collecting tests
7. marking tests - helps to choose which tests to execute.
8. running tests - concurrent execution of tests for speed.
9. test reporting - allure, html, and json reports

prerequisite

• python 3 should be installed

Installation

pip install pytest - installs the most recent version

Important links

• pytest official documentation
• Simple guide to api testing

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