WireMock-stateful-api-testing

WireMock and Rest-Assured for stateful API testing

WireMock standalone

This script makes use of wiremock standalone jar

• To record start WireMock standalone the following way

java -jar wiremock-jre8-standalone-<version>.jar --port <7777> \
  --proxy-all="http://<proxy address>:<port>" \
  --record-mappings \ 
  --verbose 

Mappings

• Make the mapping by putting your request/responsemappings in the mappings.json file in the mappings dir
• Remember to restart once new mappings have been added.
• The mappings used in the video can be found here

State

• State can be setup in the mappings, can be called using __admin/scenarios

Rest Client (desktop)

• Using insomnia rest client as a rest client
• This is mainly used to setup and play around with the Backend JAVA API

Application

• Todo Backend applications more info here
• The specific one I used was [this one] which used Javalin (https://github.com/johanvogelzang/todo-backend)

References

• https://wiremock.org/docs/stateful-behaviour/
• https://wiremock.org/docs/record-playback/