Experience Report: Web API Automation

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Summary

Watch Paul Farrell's Experience Report on Web API Automation from Test.bash('Online'): 2020

Challenge Description

Application

The application for this challenge is Restful Booker Platform. More about the application is available here. You can also ask questions related to the application there.

The Challenges:

Complete these challenges using any tooling of your choice.

Beginner:

Perform a GET request on the branding API and assert the response.

Intermediate:

Create a new Room using the Rom API and assert it was successfully created. Tip, you’ll need to also need to prove you are authenticated by calling the Auth API and saving the token!

Advanced:

Create a solution/framework that allows you to test all the APIs. You’ll need to include tests for:

  • Branding: GET, PUT
  • Room: GET, PUT, POST, DELETE
  • Booking: GET, PUT, POST, DELETE
  • Auth: POST. Login, logout, validate
  • Report: GET
  • Messaging: GET, POST,

Bonus, test that you can mark a message as read.

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Paul Farrell
Quality Engineering Lead

Testing since 2012.

Started off as a Games Tester for Sony Playstation, moved onto Web Testing for Airport Car Parking companies and then moved and stayed in e-commerce - Beauty Bay and Gear4music.

I'm mostly known as "The Postman Guy" but I enjoy other avenues of Software Testing

Paul Farrell profile image
Paul Farrell
Quality Engineering Lead

Testing since 2012.

Started off as a Games Tester for Sony Playstation, moved onto Web Testing for Airport Car Parking companies and then moved and stayed in e-commerce - Beauty Bay and Gear4music.

I'm mostly known as "The Postman Guy" but I enjoy other avenues of Software Testing

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