behave-http 0.1.1

Behave HTTP steps

A Python package for HTTP-service testing. Contains reusable steps for Behave BDD (behaviour-driven development) tool. It’s mostly useful for testing REST APIs and interacting with JSON data over HTTP.

Usage

yourapp/features/environment.py:

from behave_http.environment import before_scenario

yourapp/features/steps/some_http_stuff.py:

from behave_http.steps import *

(You can mix them with your own steps in the same file.)

yourapp/features/some_api.feature:

Feature: Some API
  As an API client
  I want to be able to manage activities and sessions

  Background: Set server name, headers and reset test user's database
    Given I am using server "$SERVER"
    And I set base URL to "$URL"
    And I set "Accept" header to "application/json"
    And I set "Content-Type" header to "application/json"
    And I set BasicAuth username to "[e-mail]" and password to "t"

  Scenario: Ensure account exists
    When I make a GET request to "account"
    Then the response status should be 200

If your test target is http://127.0.0.1:8081/api you can test it with:

SERVER=http://127.0.0.1:8081 URL=api behave

General rules on using quoted "values" in feature files:

• JSONs and numbers (response code, array length) must appear as is.

• Other substitutes must be quoted (variable names, headers and their values).

While there is no extensive documentation the features (self tests) directory contains (a hopefully complete) set of usage examples.

Testing for nested JSON content with non-ASCII characters in paths is not supported by the underlying ``jpath`` library.

Development

To install essential packages for the test suite:

pip install -r requirements_dev.txt

A complete list of development tools used in the Makefile can be installed with:

pip install coveralls docutils flake8 tox wheel

Running tests

Launch a special HTTP server responding to test requests:

python testserver.py

Then run feature tests in a separate shell:

make test-all # runs on every supported python version with tox
make test     # runs in current python environment only

Environment variables

Set TEST_SERVER to full URL (including schema) if default port (55080) on localhost is already used by another process. For example:

export TEST_SERVER=http://127.0.0.1:55081
python testserver.py >testserver.log 2>&1 &
make test-coverage

Acknowledgments

The REST steps code is initially derived from rest api blueprint [1], so this project inherits the same BSD 2-Clause License (see LICENSE file).

[1]

https://bitbucket.org/tcorbettclark/rest-api-blueprint