HTTP API TESTING AND RPA WITH REQUESTSLIBRARY

This workshop is about HTTP api for direct test or as prerequisites for your end to end test automation suite.

You will learn:

• how to setup a basic API testing/rpa project using the RequestsLibrary
• how to handle shared session and authentication
• how to validate the response
• what to address with api testing in your test suite
• how to use RF for basic stress tests
• how to use pabot and RequestsLibrary to execute many requests in parallel We will use the new 0.8 pre-release version and we will talk about the development roadmap.

What you need

• I will use PyCharm as IDE (but of course you can use your own)
• git
• Python
• Docker (needed to run a local HTTP server)

How to setup a basic API testing/rpa project using the RequestsLibrary

Checkout a new project from git

From cli:

git clone git@github.com:RobotFramework-Italia/http-api-testing-workshop.git

or

git clone https://github.com/RobotFramework-Italia/http-api-testing-workshop.git

Or gui:

Setup a new Python virtual environment

Install the needed dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt 

Run a local HTTP sever with Docker

docker run -p 5000:80 kennethreitz/httpbin

Wait until everything is up and running and then open the browser at this url: http://localhost:5000/

Run a self check test

robot selfcheck/selfcheck.robot