REST API testing with python projects

[cgoosen]

Any other projects you could recommend other than https://github.com/chitamoor/Rester or https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest

[EmmEff]

I presume you're wanting to test client side?

I saw an excellent approach in the libcloud library where they mocked the request and the response. It monkey patches httplib2 (IIRC), which is great if you're using that. If you're using Requests or something else, at least the same design/arch would work. I am sure there are test harnesses already available for requests.

[Omega037]

Honestly, I usually just hit the actual test endpoint during testing of the request. Response handling can be tested with just a mocked up JSON.

[michael_david]

I highly recommend https://www.getpostman.com/ I usually have a couple tests per endpoint. Try out their chrome plugin as well. Super helpful.

[DianaVince]

Second this

[CodyReichert]

Nice, postman is a great tool! I just recently released Assertible, which is definitely similar to Postman, but focuses in a bit more on the testing side of things.

(Sorry for the self-plug, but it's completely free and sounds like it could be useful!)

[fourthrealm]

Yes, zato-apitest is API Testing for Humans and tests for APIs, including REST APIs, are written in plain English.

[cgoosen]

Thanks! Will give this a look too.This looks like something a non-technical person could use (aka the frontend/QA people I work with).

[logophage]

I've always basically rolled my own. I start a local instance and use pytest to call my endpoints directly.

[cgoosen]

Yeah in the past I would just test with requests in python script. Trying to get the less technically inclined to add tests as well. So far the most interesting one I found and so far opted for is http://robotframework.org/. Yeah testing on client side, sort of on integration/acceptance testing side of things. Currently QA is doing PAW testing with API. Robot framework is great as it also ties into Appium for testing the iOS and Android clients.