REST API Automation Testing

Automated testing of gorest.co.in using RestAssured, testNG and cucumber

Objective

Demonstrate use of the following testing technologies and procedures as part of providing a complete testing framework.

• RestAssured (REST API invocation and testing)
• TestNG (Assertions)
• Cucumber (BBD test case)
• Maven Multiple Modules
• Generate JSON REST POJO content automatically using jsonschema2pojo-maven-plugin
• Log4J2 (logging)

gorest.co.in site tested

[gorest web site](https://gorest.co.in) is a "Online REST API for Testing and Prototyping". An account and a token must be generated to use this site but it is free to use.

Module Definitions

###RestContent Module

Creates POJO objects from json schema.  Json schema was generated by taking the REST API response and using [Liquid's schema generator](https://www.liquid-technologies.com/online-json-to-schema-converter)  to generate a json schema.
POJO is then packaged as a jar and made a depencency of the RestTests module.
Approach allows the POJO inputs for the REST APIs tested to be generated automatically.
Ideally a json schema could be define to fully cover all POJO needs.
Another option that would be more complete but require more work, would be to generaete the POJO using [jsonschema2pojo generator] (http://www.jsonschema2pojo.org/).

RestTests Module

Contains all of the REST API tests utlizing RestAssured, TestNG and Cucumber.

APIs tested
- Get User
- Delete User
- Create User
- Get User List

APIs tests planned
- Create Comment
- Delete Comment
- Get Comment List

Note: This is just a subset of all the gorest apis, for example, posts and albumns are not included.

TODOs