Start your journey in REST API Automation Tests in 5 minutes 😎

What we will test:

API call to: https://httpbin.org/#/Anything/get_anything

Prerequesties

GitHub account

7 Easy Steps to run your first Automated API Test!

1. ✨ Get your own copy of this repository
   • Click Fork button on the top right corner
   • Effect: repository cloned to your GitHub account
2. ✅ Enable GitHub Actions CI
   • Go to Actions panel
   • Click I understand my worflows, go ahead and enable them
   • Effect: Actions unlocked but shows There are no workflow runs yet.
3. 💻 Open code editor
   • Go to Code panel
   • Click . (dot symbol) on your keyboard
   • Effect: Visual Studio Code Editor opened with EXPLORER panel on left
4. 🖐️ Start coding
   • On left chose test folder and click get-resources.spec.js
   • DELETE .skip phrase (with dot) from first test (starting in line 3)
   • Effect: your tests starts with it("should return status code 200 ...
5. 🚀 Apply changes to repository
   • Use keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + G to open SOURCE CONTROL panel on left
   • Enter changes message Removed skip from first test
   • Click ✔ (tick button) on top menu in SOURCE CONTROL panel
   • Effect: All changes applied to your repository! (this is called pushed commit)
6. 🏃‍♂️ Go back to repository
   • Go to top left hamburger menu and clik it
   • Use last option Go to repository
   • Effect: Repository opened in new tab
7. 👀 See tests in Action!
   • Go to Actions panel and click Removed skip from first test workflow
   • Scroll to the bottom of the page and check results
   • Effect: Test run with success!🎉🎉🎉

     ----------------	Tests	Passed ✅	Skipped ↪️	Failed ❌
     JUnit Test Report	2 run	1 passed	1 skipped	0 failed

👨‍💻 Your turn:

• Remove skip from next test,
• Make commit
• See how it fail in Actions
• ...and then fix it!

What next

See https://jaktestowac.pl/api/