Rest Assured Cucumber Exercise

This project is an exercise about API testing with a mock API. It is developed using Java, Cucumber, Rest Assured and JUnit. The purpose of this mini project is to put into practice these mentioned technologies.

Features

Feature 1: Client testing (GET and POST)
Feature 2: Resource testing (GET and PUT)

Installation

To run this project locally, follow these steps:

Clone the repository.
Install Java Development Kit (JDK) if not already installed.
Install a compatible IDE, such as IntelliJ or Eclipse.
Install Cucumber plugin for the IDE.
Install Maven as the build tool.
Run the following command to install project dependencies:

mvn install

Usage

To use this project, follow these steps:

Open the project in your preferred IDE.
Follow the Installation steps describe in the previous section.
Execute the TestRunner class that is in test/java/com/testing/api/runner/ directory.
You can also execute a specific feature or scenario from the feature files and using the IDE. The path of these files is test/resources/features/
Verify the tests execution in the terminal.

Configuration

The project can be configured by modifying the following files:

src/test/resources/log4j2.properties: logger configuration.
src/main/com/testing/api/utils/Constants.java: project configuration data such as: base url, endpoints and header configuration.
src/test/resources/schemas/*.json: schemas of the HTTP responses defined using JSON.
src/test/java/com/testing/api/stepDefinitions/Hooks.java: printing in console of starting scenario message and configuration of the base URL.

Testing