Sample API testing project

🔌 One of my projects to practice API testing was creating a collection of requests to test a sample, locally available API.

Summary

• The API connected my client to a simple database containing one table with some mock hotel employee data.
• The API was designed using the REST approach and contained five endpoints.
• I accessed the API documentation via Swagger and created a collection of requests using Postman.
• For each request, I wrote some basic test scripts.
• The API did not require authentication.

CRUD operations

🔄 The API allowed me to practice the CRUD operations using four HTTP methods:

• Create/POST: Add an employee;
• Read/GET: Get status; Get an employee by name/by id;
• Update/PATCH: Update an employee's data;
• Delete/DELETE: Delete an employee.

Skills practiced

🚀 Here's what the simple API allowed me to practice:

• Manually testing all the endpoints.
• Using code snippets available in Postman.
• Writing my own simple assertions using JavaScript.
• Using collection viariables.
• Using random/dynamic data.
• Testing for different status codes.
• Validating JSON schema and response values.
• Running the collection using Postman and via CLI.