Rest Assured Fundamentals

Quickly learn the fundamentals of REST Assured to add API Automation Testing to your Java code

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.5

- Use all of the core features of REST Assured
- Test two sample API applications
- including one developed especially for this course
- Advanced use of REST Assured to extract explicit data from a HTTP response

What you'll learn

Use all of the core features of REST Assured

Test two sample API applications

including one developed especially for this course

Advanced use of REST Assured to extract explicit data from a HTTP response

* Requirements

* No prerequisites are needed for the course
* but you will get more out of it if you know some basic Java
* Basic knowledge of how APIs work will be helpful
* but not required

Description

❗️UPDATE - DEC 2019 ❗️COURSE HAS BEEN COMPLETELY RE-RECORDED FROM SCRATCH FOR THE LATEST VERSION OF REST ASSURED - V4.1.2❗️

This course on REST Assured assumes that you have some basic knowledge of Java and API testing, and cuts through all the filler of other courses to get you up and running with REST Assured very quickly. Even if you have very little knowledge of Java and APi testing, you can still follow along with this course.

The course makes use of two different API applications to test against, including one that was created specifically for this course and supports both JSON and XML queries.

If you want a course that will get you up and running with REST Assured and learning the fundamentals of this awesome DSL for Java API Testing, this is the course for you.

Who this course is for:

Anyone who wants to learn the fundamental features of REST Assured quickly and efficiently
Students with an interest in API Automation

Course content

9 sections • 46 lectures

Prerequisite Installations & Setup 5 lectures

Course Introduction Preview 01:47

Brief introduction to who I am and why I created this REST Assured fundamentals course

Housekeeping Preview 02:32

How to ask questions to the course author, and how to use the Github repository with the source code

Prerequisite Software Preview 01:49

List of prerequisite software needed to follow along with the course, and where to obtain it

Target Application 1 - Video Game DB Preview 03:24

How to download and install the first application under test - the Video Game DB

Target Application 2 - Football Data API Preview 03:04

Quick overview of the 2nd application under test - Football Data API

REST Assured - Preparing Your Framework 8 lectures

Create Intellij Project & Install REST Assured Preview 03:06

Install REST Assured through Gradle in Intellij

Write your First REST Assured Test Preview 07:21

Write your first REST Assured test

Setting up a Base Class Preview 05:03

Add a base class for common code to be executed by all your tests in REST Assured

Running tests through a HTTP Proxy Preview 03:01

How to run tests through the Fiddler HTTP Proxy in REST Assured

Request Specification Preview 04:11

Using Request Specification in REST Assured

Response Specification Preview 02:34

Using Response specification in REST Assured

Create Config file for Video Game DB Preview 06:03

Add the base config file for the Video Game DB

Adding Endpoints to an Interface Preview 04:29

Adding Endpoints to an Interface for use in REST Assured tests

REST Assured - Different Request Types 8 lectures

GET Request Preview 03:39

How to make a GET request in REST Assured

POST Request with JSON Preview 04:00

How to make a POST request with JSON in REST Assured

POST Request with XML Preview 06:37

How to make a POST Request with XML

PUT Request Preview 03:30

How to make a PUT Request in REST Assured

DELETE Request Preview 01:56

How to make a DELETE request in REST Assured

Path Parameters Preview 03:10

How to add Path Parameters in your REST Assured API calls

Create Config file for Football API Preview 05:47

Create a config file for Football API tests to inherit from

Query Parameters Preview 04:50

How to add Path Parameters in your REST Assured API calls

REST Assured - Assert and Extract from the Response Body 4 lectures

Assert the body of a HTTP Response Preview 07:41

Assert the body of a HTTP Response in REST Assured

Extract the body of a HTTP Response Preview 04:47

Extract the body of a HTTP Response in REST Assured

Extract the headers of a HTTP Response Preview 03:41

Extract the headers of a HTTP Response with REST Assured

Extract explicit data from the body with JSON path Preview 05:08

Extract explicit data from the body with JSON path

REST Assured - Serialization, Schema Validation & Measuring Response Time 5 lectures

Object Serialization Preview 08:33

How to performance Object Serialization with REST Assured

Validating Response against a XML Schema Preview 07:32

Validating Response against a XML Schema in REST Assured

Validating Response against a JSON Schema Preview 05:27

Validating Response against a JSON Schema in REST Assured

Convert JSON Response to POJO Preview 03:06

Learn how to convert a JSON response in the response body to a POJO in REST Assured

Measuring Response Time in REST Assured Preview 05:54

Measuring Response Time in REST Assured

Using Groovy GPath for JSON in REST Assured 4 lectures

GPath JSON Part 1 - Setup and basic find Preview 07:55

How to use GPath to look up JSON in REST Assured

GPath JSON Part 2 - Using findAll to extract multiple data Preview 07:07

How to use GPath to look up JSON in REST Assured, in this lecture we use findAll to extract multiple data sets

GPath JSON Part 3 - Using Min, Max, Collect and Sum Preview 05:13

How to use GPath to look up JSON in REST Assured, in this lecture we use mix, max, collect and sum

GPath JSON Part 4 - Combining finds and using parameters Preview 10:53

How to use GPath to look up JSON in REST Assured, in this lecture we combine finds and use parameters

Using Groovy Gpath for XML in REST Assured 7 lectures

GPath XML Part 1 - Setup and basic find Preview 03:42

Using GPath XML in REST Assured - in this lecture we go over the setup and perform a basic find

GPath XML Part 2 - Attributes Preview 01:52

Using GPath XML in REST Assured - in this lecture we discuss XML attributes

GPath XML Part 3 - Extract all XML nodes with findAll Preview 04:18

Using GPath XML in REST Assured - in this lecture we discuss XML nodes and use findAll

GPath XML Part 4 - Extract XML nodes with an attribute Preview 03:46

Using GPath XML in REST Assured - in this lecture we discuss XML nodes and capturing them with an attribute

GPath XML Part 5 - Extract single node Preview 02:35

Using GPath XML in REST Assured - in this lecture we extract a single node

GPath XML Part 6 - Depth First Search Preview 02:20

Using GPath XML in REST Assured - in this lecture we look at how to perform a depth first search

GPath XML Part 7 - Get all nodes based on a condition Preview 03:38

Using GPath XML in REST Assured - in this lecture we extract all nodes based on a condition

Authentication 4 lectures

Authentication Introduction Preview 02:31

An introduction to doing Authentication in REST Assured

Basic Authentication Preview 04:07

How to do Basic Authentication in REST Assured

OAuth 1 & 2 Preview 04:14

How to do OAuth 1 & 2 in REST Assured

SSL Preview 03:02

How to do SSL Authentication in REST Assured

Conclusion 1 lectures

Thanks for watching! Preview 01:05

Thanks for watching this course on REST Assured.