API Test Design

API -Test Design

• API Automation typically comprise three steps.
• These usually go by the names (ATA):
  1. Arrange
  2. Trigger
  3. Assert

Test Design Techniques

• Positive Scenarios
  • Input Validation -with all valid mandatory and optional parameters
  • with only valid mandatory
• Negative Scenarios
  • with invalid mandatory and valid optional parameters
  • with all valid mandatory and invalid optional parameters
• Fuzzing
  • HTTP Method
  • Query Parameters
  • Body Parameters

API-Asserions

1. Response Code
2. Response Data
   • Token
   • JSON path
   • XPATH
3. Regex pattern
4. Composite Assertion
5. SLA