API Challenges Improvements
TLDR; API Challenges can now be used without installing any REST Clients.
API Spector a new Open Source API Testing Tool
TLDR; API Spector is a new free HTTP and WebSocket Testing Tool.
API Testing Challenges - How To Use Simulation Mode
This post and video shows how to use the Simulation Mode in API Challenges.
API Testing Challenges - How To Use Mirror Mode
This post and video shows how to use the Mirror Mode in API Challenges.
API Testing Challenge - Debrief - POST challenger 201
This post and video discusses what we can learn from the challenge POST /challenger 201.
Ordering Headers In HTTP Requests with RestAssured and UniRest
TLDR; RestAssured does not support ordering headers in HTTP Requests. But UniRest does.
An Introduction to API Based Documentation Automating
TLDR; The formal api documentation specifications ecosystems have tools that can help create documentation more easily and use the documentation to automatically validate e.g. Dredd, Swagger and StopLight
I’m working on an API for The Pulper, and I want to write documentation in a formal spec and use tools to validate it. Sounds Easy.
Using RestAssured to download a file
TLDR; Downloading a file with RestAssured is as simple as taking the body of a request as a byte array and writing it to a file.
When automating I often have to download files. One very common FAQ for WebDriver is “How do I download a file with WebDriver?”.
Postman Snippets to Assert API response status codes
TLDR; Postman snippets can help us get started with scripting assertions to support REST API Testing