drun 7.2.3

Easy-to-use API testing with DevOps automation support

Drun — Modern HTTP API Testing Framework

Drun — Easy-to-use API testing with DevOps automation support. Write tests in simple YAML, run anywhere with CI/CD integration.

Why Drun?

• Zero Code Required: Write tests in simple YAML, no programming knowledge needed
• Postman-Like Experience: Variable extraction, environment management, and test chaining
• Developer Friendly: Dollar-style templating, built-in functions, and custom hooks
• CI/CD Ready: HTML/JSON/Allure reports, notifications, and exit codes
• Format Agnostic: Import from cURL, Postman, HAR, OpenAPI; export to cURL
• Modern Stack: Built on httpx, Pydantic v2, and typer for reliability

Key Features

Core Testing Capabilities

• YAML DSL: Intuitive test case syntax with config, steps, extract, validate, export
• Dollar Templating: $var and ${func(...)} for dynamic values
• Rich Assertions: 19 assertion operators (eq, ne, lt, contains, regex, len_eq, etc.)
• Data-Driven: CSV parameters for batch testing
• CSV Export: Export API response arrays to CSV files
• Streaming Support: SSE (Server-Sent Events) with per-event assertions
• File Uploads: Multipart/form-data support
• Smart File Discovery: Run tests without .yaml extension
• Test Case Invoke: Nested test case calls with variable passing (NEW in v6.2)

Variable Management

• Auto-Persist: Extracted variables automatically saved to .env
• Smart Naming: token → TOKEN, apiKey → API_KEY conversion
• Memory Passing: Variables shared between test cases in suites
• Environment Files: Support for .env, YAML env files, and OS variables

Advanced Features

• Custom Hooks: Python functions for setup/teardown and request signing
• Test Suites: Ordered execution with variable chaining and caseflow
• Authentication: Basic/Bearer auth with auto-injection
• Tag Filtering: Boolean expressions like smoke and not slow
• Database Assertions: MySQL integration for data validation

Reports & Integrations

• HTML Reports: Single-file, shareable test reports
• JSON/Allure: Structured results for CI/CD pipelines
• Notifications: Feishu, DingTalk, Email alerts on failure
• Format Conversion: Import/export with cURL, Postman, HAR, OpenAPI
• Code Snippets: Auto-generate executable Shell and Python scripts
• Unified Logging: Consistent log format with timestamps
• Web Report Server: Real-time HTML report viewing with SQLite database

Quick Start

Installation

# Install uv (if not installed)
# macOS/Linux
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

# Windows
powershell -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

# Create virtual environment
uv venv
source .venv/bin/activate  # macOS/Linux
# .venv\Scripts\activate   # Windows

# Install drun
uv pip install drun

# Update drun to latest version
uv pip install --upgrade drun

Requirements: Python 3.10+

Recommended to use uv for virtual environment management. Traditional method also works: pip install drun

Initialize a Project

drun init myproject
drun init myproject --ci    # Include GitHub Actions workflow
cd myproject

This creates:

my-api-test/
├── testcases/                  # Test cases directory
│   ├── test_demo.yaml          # HTTP feature demo
│   ├── test_api_health.yaml    # Health check example
│   └── test_import_users.yaml  # CSV parameterization example
├── testsuites/                 # Test suites directory
│   └── testsuite_smoke.yaml    # Smoke test suite
├── data/                       # Test data directory
│   └── users.csv               # CSV parameter data
├── converts/                   # Format conversion source files
│   └── sample.curl             # cURL command example
├── reports/                    # HTML/JSON report output
├── logs/                       # Log file output
├── snippets/                   # Auto-generated code snippets
├── .env                        # Environment variables
├── Dhook.py               # Custom Hooks functions
└── .gitignore                  # Git ignore rules

Create Your First Test

.env

BASE_URL=https://api.example.com
API_KEY=your-api-key-here

testcases/test_user_api.yaml

config:
  name: User API Test
  base_url: ${ENV(BASE_URL)}
  tags: [smoke, users]

steps:
  - name: Create User
    request:
      method: POST
      path: /users
      headers:
        Authorization: Bearer ${ENV(API_KEY)}
      body:
        username: testuser_${uuid()}
        email: [e-mail]
    extract:
      userId: $.data.id
      username: $.data.username
    validate:
      - eq: [status_code, 201]
      - regex: [$.data.id, '^\d+$']
      - eq: [$.data.email, [e-mail]]

  - name: Get User
    request:
      method: GET
      path: /users/${ENV(USER_ID)}
      headers:
        Authorization: Bearer ${ENV(API_KEY)}
    validate:
      - eq: [status_code, 200]
      - eq: [$.data.id, ${ENV(USER_ID)}]
      - eq: [$.data.username, ${ENV(USERNAME)}]

Run Tests

# Run single test (with or without .yaml extension)
drun run testcases/test_user_api.yaml --env dev
drun run test_user_api --env dev

# Run with HTML report
drun run test_user_api --env dev --html reports/report.html

# Run with tag filtering
drun run testcases --env dev -k "smoke and not slow"

# Run test suite
drun run testsuite_e2e --env dev

Core Concepts

Test Case Structure

config:
  name: Test name
  base_url: https://api.example.com
  tags: [smoke, api]
  variables:
    dynamic_value: ${uuid()}
  timeout: 30.0
  headers:
    User-Agent: Drun-Test

steps:
  - name: Step name
    setup_hooks:
      - ${custom_function($request)}
    request:
      method: POST
      path: /endpoint
      params: { key: value }
      headers: { Authorization: Bearer token }
      body: { data: value }
      auth:
        type: bearer
        token: ${ENV(API_TOKEN)}
      timeout: 10.0
    extract:
      variableName: $.response.path
    export:
      csv:
        data: $.response.items
        file: data/output.csv
    validate:
      - eq: [status_code, 200]
      - contains: [$.data.message, success]
    teardown_hooks:
      - ${cleanup_function()}

Variable Extraction & Auto-Persist

Extraction automatically persists to environment:

# test_login.yaml
steps:
  - name: Login
    request:
      method: POST
      path: /login
      body:
        username: admin
        password: pass123
    extract:
      token: $.data.token          # Auto-saved as TOKEN=value
      userId: $.data.user.id       # Auto-saved as USER_ID=value

Variables immediately available in subsequent tests:

# test_orders.yaml
steps:
  - name: Create Order
    request:
      method: POST
      path: /orders
      headers:
        Authorization: Bearer ${ENV(TOKEN)}  # Uses extracted token
      body:
        user_id: ${ENV(USER_ID)}            # Uses extracted userId

Test Suites & Caseflow (NEW in v6.2)

Modern caseflow syntax with invoke:

# testsuites/testsuite_e2e.yaml
config:
  name: E2E Test Flow
  tags: [e2e, critical]

caseflow:
  - name: Login and Get Token
    invoke: test_login              # Extracts: token, userId (auto-exported)

  - name: Create Order
    variables:
      user_id: $userId              # Use variable from previous step
    invoke: test_create_order       # Extracts: orderId

  - name: Process Payment
    variables:
      order_id: $orderId
      token: $token
    invoke: test_payment

  - name: Verify Order Status
    variables:
      order_id: $orderId
    invoke: test_verify

Note: In caseflow, variables comes before invoke. Extracted variables are automatically exported to subsequent steps - no explicit export needed.

Legacy testcases syntax (still supported):

config:
  name: E2E Test Flow
  base_url: ${ENV(BASE_URL)}

testcases:
  - testcases/test_login.yaml
  - testcases/test_create_order.yaml
  - testcases/test_payment.yaml
  - testcases/test_verify.yaml

Execution characteristics:

• Strict sequential order (top to bottom)
• Variables shared via memory (no file I/O between tests)
• .env file read once at startup
• Variables extracted during run are persisted to .env

Template System

Dollar-style syntax:

variables:
  user_id: 12345
  timestamp: ${now()}

request:
  path: /users/$user_id?t=$timestamp  # Simple variable
  body:
    uuid: ${uuid()}                    # Function call
    auth_key: ${ENV(API_KEY, default)} # Env variable with default

Built-in functions:

• now() - ISO 8601 timestamp
• uuid() - UUID v4
• random_int(min, max) - Random integer
• base64_encode(str) - Base64 encoding
• hmac_sha256(key, message) - HMAC SHA256
• fake_name() - Random person name
• fake_email() - Random email address
• fake_address() - Random street address
• fake_city() - Random city name
• fake_text(max_chars) - Random text paragraph
• fake_url() - Random URL
• fake_phone_number() - Random phone number
• fake_company() - Random company name
• fake_date() - Random date string
• fake_ipv4() - Random IPv4 address
• fake_user_agent() - Random user agent string

Assertions

validate:
  # Equality
  - eq: [status_code, 200]
  - ne: [$.error, null]
  
  # Comparison
  - lt: [$.count, 100]
  - le: [$.price, 99.99]
  - gt: [$.total, 0]
  - ge: [$.age, 18]
  
  # String/Array operations
  - contains: [$.message, success]
  - not_contains: [$.errors, critical]
  - regex: [$.email, '^[a-z0-9]+@[a-z]+\.[a-z]{2,}$']
  - in: [$.status, [pending, approved, completed]]
  - not_in: [$.role, [banned, suspended]]
  
  # Collections
  - len_eq: [$.items, 5]
  - contains_all: [$.tags, [api, v1, public]]
  - match_regex_all: [$.emails, '^[a-z]+@example\.com$']
  
  # Performance
  - le: [$elapsed_ms, 2000]  # Response time ≤ 2s

Data-Driven Testing (CSV)

data/users.csv

username,email,role
alice,[e-mail],admin
bob,[e-mail],user
carol,[e-mail],guest

Test case:

config:
  name: Batch User Registration
  parameters:
    - csv:
        path: data/users.csv
        strip: true

steps:
  - name: Register $username
    request:
      method: POST
      path: /register
      body:
        username: $username
        email: $email
        role: $role
    validate:
      - eq: [status_code, 201]
      - eq: [$.data.username, $username]

Drun will execute the test 3 times (once per CSV row).

CSV Export

Export API response arrays to CSV files, similar to Postman's data export:

steps:
  - name: Export User Data
    request:
      method: GET
      path: /api/users
    extract:
      userCount: $.data.total
    export:
      csv:
        data: $.data.users           # JMESPath expression
        file: data/users.csv         # Output file path
    validate:
      - eq: [status_code, 200]
      - gt: [$userCount, 0]

Advanced options:

export:
  csv:
    data: $.data.orders
    file: reports/orders_${now()}.csv    # Dynamic filename
    columns: [orderId, customerName, totalAmount]  # Select columns
    mode: append                         # append or overwrite
    encoding: utf-8                      # File encoding
    delimiter: ","                       # CSV delimiter

Code Snippets

Automatically generate executable Shell and Python scripts from test steps:

# Run test - code snippets are generated automatically
$ drun run test_login --env dev

2025-11-24 14:23:18.551 | INFO | [CASE] Total: 1 Passed: 1 Failed: 0 Skipped: 0
2025-11-24 14:23:18.553 | INFO | [CASE] HTML report written to reports/report.html
2025-11-24 14:23:18.559 | INFO | [SNIPPET] Code snippets saved to snippets/20251124-143025/
2025-11-24 14:23:18.560 | INFO | [SNIPPET]   - step1_login_curl.sh
2025-11-24 14:23:18.560 | INFO | [SNIPPET]   - step1_login_python.py

CLI Options:

# Disable snippet generation
$ drun run test_api --env dev --no-snippet

# Generate only Python scripts
$ drun run test_api --env dev --snippet-lang python

# Generate only curl scripts
$ drun run test_api --env dev --snippet-lang curl

# Custom output directory
$ drun run test_api --env dev --snippet-output exports/

Custom Hooks

Dhook.py

import hmac
import hashlib
import time

def setup_hook_sign_request(hook_ctx):
    """Add HMAC signature to request"""
    timestamp = str(int(time.time()))
    secret = hook_ctx['env'].get('API_SECRET', '')
    
    message = f"{timestamp}:{hook_ctx['body']}"
    signature = hmac.new(
        secret.encode(),
        message.encode(),
        hashlib.sha256
    ).hexdigest()
    
    return {
        'timestamp': timestamp,
        'signature': signature
    }

def teardown_hook_cleanup(hook_ctx):
    """Cleanup test data"""
    pass

Usage in YAML:

steps:
  - name: Signed Request
    setup_hooks:
      - ${setup_hook_sign_request($request)}
    request:
      method: POST
      path: /api/secure
      headers:
        X-Timestamp: $timestamp
        X-Signature: $signature
      body: { data: sensitive }
    teardown_hooks:
      - ${teardown_hook_cleanup()}

CLI Reference

Web Report Server

# Start report server
drun server

# Custom port and options
drun server --port 8080 --no-open

# Development mode with auto-reload
drun server --reload

# Server will be accessible at http://0.0.0.0:8080
# Features:
# - Auto-scans reports/ directory
# - Real-time report indexing with SQLite
# - Paginated list view (18 reports per page)
# - Detailed report view with back navigation
# - Statistics dashboard
# - RESTful API at /api/reports

Run Tests

# Basic execution
drun run PATH --env <env_name>

# Smart file discovery - extension optional
drun run test_api_health --env dev              # Finds test_api_health.yaml or .yml
drun run testcases/test_user --env dev          # Supports paths without extension
drun run test_api_health.yaml --env dev         # Traditional format still works

# Temporary single-file run outside scaffold
# Default output: only one log file in current directory
drun run ./test_api_health.yaml --env-file ./demo.env

# With more options
drun run testcases/ \
  --env staging \
  -k "smoke and not slow" \
  --vars api_key=secret \
  --html reports/report.html \
  --report reports/results.json \
  --allure-results allure-results \
  --mask-secrets \
  --failfast

Options:

• --env NAME: Optional named environment; prefers .env.<name> and merges named env config if present
• --env-file FILE: Explicit environment file path; higher priority than --env and default .env
• -k TAG_EXPR: Filter by tags (e.g., smoke and not slow)
• --vars k=v: Override variables from CLI
• --html FILE: Generate HTML report (temporary single-file runs do not generate one by default)
• --report FILE: Generate JSON report
• --allure-results DIR: Generate Allure results
• --mask-secrets: Mask sensitive data in logs/reports
• --reveal-secrets: Show sensitive data (default for local runs)
• --response-headers: Log response headers
• --failfast: Stop on first failure
• --log-level LEVEL: Set log level (DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR)
• --log-file FILE: Write logs to file (temporary single-file runs otherwise default to ./<yaml>-<ts>.log)
• --notify CHANNELS: Enable notifications (feishu, dingtalk, email)
• --notify-only POLICY: Notification policy (always, failed, passed)
• --no-snippet: Disable code snippet generation (temporary single-file runs are already disabled by default)
• --snippet-output DIR: Custom output directory for snippets
• --snippet-lang LANG: Generate snippets in specific language: all|curl|python

Format Conversion

# cURL to YAML
drun convert sample.curl --outfile testcases/from_curl.yaml

# With redaction and placeholders
drun convert sample.curl \
  --outfile testcases/from_curl.yaml \
  --redact Authorization,Cookie \
  --placeholders

# Postman Collection to YAML (with split output)
drun convert collection.json \
  --split-output \
  --suite-out testsuites/from_postman.yaml \
  --postman-env environment.json \
  --placeholders

# HAR to YAML
drun convert recording.har \
  --outfile testcases/from_har.yaml \
  --exclude-static \
  --only-2xx

# OpenAPI to YAML
drun convert-openapi openapi.json \
  --outfile testcases/from_openapi.yaml \
  --tags users,orders \
  --split-output \
  --placeholders

Export to cURL

# Basic export
drun export curl testcases/test_api.yaml

# Advanced options
drun export curl testcases/test_api.yaml \
  --case-name "User API Test" \
  --steps 1,3-5 \
  --multiline \
  --shell sh \
  --redact Authorization \
  --with-comments \
  --outfile export.curl

Other Commands

# List all tags
drun tags testcases/

# Check syntax and style
drun check testcases/

# Auto-fix YAML formatting
drun fix testcases/
drun fix testcases/ --only-spacing
drun fix testcases/ --only-hooks

# Initialize new project
drun init myproject
drun init myproject --ci       # With CI workflow
drun init myproject --force    # Overwrite existing

# Version info
drun --version

Reports & Notifications

HTML Reports

drun run testcases --env dev --html reports/report.html --mask-secrets

Features:

• Single-file HTML (no external dependencies)
• Request/response details
• Assertion results with highlighting
• Execution timeline
• Secret masking
• Responsive design

JSON Reports

drun run testcases --env dev --report reports/results.json

Structure:

{
  "summary": {
    "total": 10,
    "passed": 9,
    "failed": 1,
    "skipped": 0,
    "duration_ms": 5432.1
  },
  "cases": [
    {
      "name": "Test Name",
      "status": "passed",
      "duration_ms": 1234.5,
      "steps": [...]
    }
  ]
}

Allure Integration

# Generate Allure results
drun run testcases --env dev --allure-results allure-results

# View Allure report
allure serve allure-results

Notifications

Environment variables:

# Feishu
FEISHU_WEBHOOK=https://open.feishu.cn/open-apis/bot/v2/hook/xxx
FEISHU_STYLE=card
FEISHU_MENTION=@user1,@user2

# DingTalk
DINGTALK_WEBHOOK=https://oapi.dingtalk.com/robot/send?access_token=xxx
DINGTALK_STYLE=markdown
DINGTALK_AT_MOBILES=13800138000
DINGTALK_AT_ALL=false

# Email
SMTP_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
SMTP_PORT=587
SMTP_USER=[e-mail]
SMTP_PASS=your-app-password
MAIL_FROM=[e-mail]
MAIL_TO=[e-mail]
SMTP_SSL=true
NOTIFY_ATTACH_HTML=true

Usage:

drun run testcases --env dev \
  --notify feishu,email \
  --notify-only failed \
  --notify-attach-html

Architecture

Module Structure

drun/                           # ~11,300 lines across ~66 modules
├── cli.py                      # CLI interface (typer)
├── commands/
│   ├── run.py                  # Run command implementation
│   ├── fix.py                  # Fix command implementation
│   ├── check.py                # Check command implementation
│   └── tags.py                 # Tags command implementation
├── engine/
│   └── http.py                 # HTTP client (httpx wrapper)
├── loader/
│   ├── collector.py            # Test discovery
│   ├── yaml_loader.py          # YAML parsing
│   ├── env.py                  # Environment loading
│   └── hooks.py                # Hook discovery
├── models/
│   ├── case.py                 # Test case models
│   ├── config.py               # Configuration models
│   ├── step.py                 # Step models
│   ├── request.py              # Request models
│   ├── validators.py           # Validator models
│   └── report.py               # Report models
├── runner/
│   ├── runner.py               # Test execution engine
│   ├── hooks.py                # Hook execution helpers
│   ├── invoke.py               # Invoke-step execution helpers
│   ├── asserting.py            # Assertion evaluation helpers
│   ├── assertions.py           # Assertion logic
│   └── extractors.py           # Extraction logic
├── templating/
│   ├── engine.py               # Template engine
│   ├── builtins.py             # Built-in functions
│   └── context.py              # Variable context
├── reporter/
│   ├── html_reporter.py        # HTML report generation
│   ├── json_reporter.py        # JSON report generation
│   └── allure_reporter.py      # Allure integration
├── notifier/
│   ├── feishu.py               # Feishu notifications
│   ├── dingtalk.py             # DingTalk notifications
│   └── emailer.py              # Email notifications
├── importers/
│   ├── curl.py                 # cURL import
│   ├── postman.py              # Postman import
│   ├── har.py                  # HAR import
│   └── openapi.py              # OpenAPI import
├── exporters/
│   └── curl.py                 # cURL export
├── utils/
│   ├── env_writer.py           # Environment file writer
│   ├── logging.py              # Structured logging
│   ├── mask.py                 # Secret masking
│   └── errors.py               # Error handling
└── scaffolds/
    └── templates.py            # Project templates

Design Philosophy

1. Simplicity First: YAML DSL over code, convention over configuration
2. Type Safety: Pydantic v2 models for validation and IDE support
3. Composability: Small, focused modules with clear responsibilities
4. Extensibility: Hooks for custom logic without modifying core
5. CI/CD Native: Exit codes, structured reports, and notifications
6. Developer Experience: Clear error messages and helpful diagnostics

Dependencies

[dependencies]
httpx = ">=0.27"        # Modern HTTP client
pydantic = ">=2.6"      # Data validation
jmespath = ">=1.0"      # JSON path queries
PyYAML = ">=6.0"        # YAML parsing
rich = ">=13.7"         # Terminal formatting
typer = ">=0.12"        # CLI framework
Faker = ">=24.0"        # Mock data generation
fastapi = ">=0.104"     # Web report server
uvicorn = ">=0.24"      # ASGI server

Best Practices

Project Structure

my-api-test/
├── testcases/                  # Atomic test cases (reusable)
│   ├── auth/
│   │   ├── test_login.yaml
│   │   └── test_logout.yaml
│   ├── users/
│   │   ├── test_create_user.yaml
│   │   ├── test_get_user.yaml
│   │   └── test_update_user.yaml
│   └── orders/
│       ├── test_create_order.yaml
│       └── test_list_orders.yaml
├── testsuites/                 # Test orchestration
│   ├── testsuite_smoke.yaml    # Quick smoke tests
│   ├── testsuite_regression.yaml # Full regression
│   └── testsuite_e2e.yaml      # End-to-end flows
├── data/                       # Test data
│   ├── users.csv
│   └── products.json
├── env/                        # Environment configs
│   ├── dev.yaml
│   ├── staging.yaml
│   └── prod.yaml
├── .env                        # Local environment
├── Dhook.py               # Custom functions
├── .gitignore                  # Exclude .env, logs, reports
└── README.md

Environment Management

# .env.dev (used with --env dev)
BASE_URL=https://api.dev.example.com
API_KEY=dev-key-here
DB_HOST=localhost

# .env.staging (used with --env staging)
BASE_URL=https://api.staging.example.com
API_KEY=staging-key-here
DB_HOST=staging-db.example.com

Multi-environment:

# Development
drun run testsuites/testsuite_smoke.yaml --env dev

# Staging
drun run testsuites/testsuite_regression.yaml --env staging

# Production (smoke tests only)
drun run testsuites/testsuite_smoke.yaml --env prod

Naming Conventions

Test cases:

• test_*.yaml - Individual test cases
• Descriptive names: test_create_user.yaml, not case1.yaml

Test suites:

• testsuite_*.yaml - Test suite files
• By scenario: testsuite_smoke.yaml, testsuite_e2e.yaml

Variables:

• Environment: UPPER_CASE (BASE_URL, API_KEY)
• YAML: lowerCase or snake_case (token, apiKey, user_id)
• Auto-conversion: token → TOKEN, apiKey → API_KEY

Tag Organization

tags: [smoke, api, critical]      # Smoke test, critical path
tags: [regression, users]         # Regression test, user module
tags: [e2e, purchase]             # End-to-end, purchase flow
tags: [slow, performance]         # Slow test, performance testing
tags: [db, data-verify]           # Database validation

Filtering:

drun run testcases --env dev -k "smoke"                    # Smoke tests only
drun run testcases --env dev -k "regression and not slow"  # Fast regression
drun run testcases --env dev -k "critical or e2e"          # Critical + E2E

CI/CD Integration

GitHub Actions Example:

name: API Tests

on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      
      - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
        with:
          python-version: '3.10'
      
      - name: Install Drun
        run: pip install drun
      
      - name: Setup Environment
        run: |
          echo "BASE_URL=${{ secrets.BASE_URL }}" >> .env.ci
          echo "API_KEY=${{ secrets.API_KEY }}" >> .env.ci
      
      - name: Run Smoke Tests
        run: |
          drun run testsuites/testsuite_smoke.yaml --env ci \
            --html reports/smoke.html \
            --report reports/smoke.json \
            --mask-secrets \
            --failfast
      
      - name: Run Regression Tests
        if: github.event_name == 'pull_request'
        run: |
          drun run testsuites/testsuite_regression.yaml --env ci \
            --html reports/regression.html \
            --report reports/regression.json \
            --mask-secrets
      
      - name: Upload Reports
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
        if: always()
        with:
          name: test-reports
          path: reports/
      
      - name: Notify on Failure
        if: failure()
        run: |
          echo "FEISHU_WEBHOOK=${{ secrets.FEISHU_WEBHOOK }}" >> .env.ci
          drun run testsuites/testsuite_smoke.yaml --env ci \
            --notify feishu \
            --notify-only failed

Advanced Topics

Test Case Invoke (NEW in v6.2)

Call other test cases from within a test case, enabling modular test design:

Basic invoke:

steps:
  - name: Execute Login Flow
    variables:
      username: admin               # Pass variables to invoked case
    invoke: test_login              # Extracted variables auto-exported

  - name: Use Extracted Token
    request:
      method: GET
      path: /api/users/$userId      # Use variables from previous step
      headers:
        Authorization: Bearer $token

Path resolution:

• test_login → Searches in testcases/, testsuites/
• test_login.yaml → With extension
• testcases/auth/test_login → With directory
• testcases/auth/test_login.yaml → Full path

Nested invoke (A → B → C):

# test_full_flow.yaml
steps:
  - name: Complete Authentication
    invoke: test_auth_flow          # test_auth_flow invokes test_login
                                    # Extracted variables auto-exported

Use cases:

• Reusable authentication flows
• Common setup/teardown procedures
• Modular test composition
• Reduce code duplication

File Upload Testing

steps:
  - name: Upload Avatar
    request:
      method: POST
      path: /users/avatar
      headers:
        Authorization: Bearer ${ENV(TOKEN)}
      files:
        avatar: ["data/avatar.jpg", "image/jpeg"]
      timeout: 30.0
    validate:
      - eq: [status_code, 200]
      - regex: [$.data.avatar_url, '^https?://']

files also supports a single local path string. Use data for multipart form fields, and avoid mixing body + files in the same step.

steps:
  - name: Upload Audio
    request:
      method: POST
      path: /asr/upload
      data:
        model: sensevoice
      files:
        file: data/audio.wav
    validate:
      - eq: [status_code, 200]

Binary Response Save

steps:
  - name: Save TTS Output
    request:
      method: POST
      path: /tts
      body:
        text: hello world
    response:
      save_body_to: artifacts/tts_out.mp3
    validate:
      - eq: [status_code, 200]
      - eq: [$content_type, audio/mpeg]

Streaming (SSE) Testing

steps:
  - name: Chat Stream
    request:
      method: POST
      path: /v1/chat/completions
      headers:
        Authorization: Bearer ${ENV(API_KEY)}
      body:
        model: gpt-3.5-turbo
        messages: [{role: user, content: Hello}]
        stream: true
      stream: true
      stream_timeout: 30
    extract:
      first_content: $.stream_events[0].data.choices[0].delta.content
      event_count: $.stream_summary.event_count
    validate:
      - eq: [status_code, 200]
      - gt: [$event_count, 0]

Database Assertions

Dhook.py:

import pymysql

def setup_hook_assert_sql(hook_ctx, user_id):
    """Query database and store result"""
    conn = pymysql.connect(
        host=hook_ctx['env']['DB_HOST'],
        user=hook_ctx['env']['DB_USER'],
        password=hook_ctx['env']['DB_PASSWORD'],
        database=hook_ctx['env']['DB_NAME']
    )
    cursor = conn.cursor()
    cursor.execute("SELECT status FROM users WHERE id = %s", (user_id,))
    result = cursor.fetchone()
    conn.close()
    
    return {'db_status': result[0] if result else None}

def expected_sql_value(user_id):
    """Get expected value from previous query"""
    return hook_ctx.get('db_status')

Usage:

steps:
  - name: Verify User Status
    setup_hooks:
      - ${setup_hook_assert_sql($user_id)}
    request:
      method: GET
      path: /users/$user_id
    validate:
      - eq: [status_code, 200]
      - eq: [$.data.status, ${expected_sql_value($user_id)}]

Performance Testing

config:
  name: Performance Baseline
  tags: [performance]

steps:
  - name: API Latency Check
    request:
      method: GET
      path: /api/products?limit=100
    validate:
      - eq: [status_code, 200]
      - le: [$elapsed_ms, 2000]  # Must respond within 2s
      - ge: [$.data.length, 100]

Development

Running from Source

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/Devliang24/drun.git
cd drun

# Install development dependencies (includes pytest)
pip install -e ".[dev]"

# Validation commands for the current P0 baseline
drun --version
drun run --help
drun server --help
python -m pytest -q
python -m build
python -m drun.cli --version

Project Statistics

• Language: Python 3.10+
• Lines of Code: ~11,300
• Modules: ~66 Python files
• Automated Tests: No maintained in-repo test suite during P0; unified tests are planned for P1
• Code Style: PEP 8, type hints, Pydantic models

Version History

Historical note: the v6.3.x entries below are kept for release history only. The current CLI does not expose a drun score command.

v7.0.0 (2025-11-27) - Built-in Mock Data Generation

• NEW: Faker integration for mock data generation
  • 11 new built-in functions: fake_name(), fake_email(), fake_address(), etc.
  • Consistent calling style with existing functions like uuid()
  • No quotes required in YAML: body: { name: ${fake_name()} }
• ADDED: Faker>=24.0 as dependency

v6.3.0 (2025-11-26) - Historical Scoring Release

• Historical release notes for the test case scoring system are retained in CHANGELOG.md and docs/18_版本历史.md.

v6.3.2/v6.3.3 (2025-11-26) - Report List Enhancements

• IMPROVED: Report list page with notification and result columns
• IMPROVED: Score display style (gray text like A (95))
• CHANGED: Default page size from 15 to 18 reports

v6.2.0 (2025-11-26) - Test Case Invoke

• NEW: invoke step type for nested test case calls
  • Syntax: invoke: test_login or invoke: testcases/auth/test_login.yaml
  • Smart path resolution (shorthand, extension, directory)
  • Variable passing via variables (placed before invoke)
  • Extracted variables automatically exported to subsequent steps
  • Support for nested invokes (A → B → C)

v6.0.0 (2024-11-25) - Web Report Server

• NEW: Web-based report server with live indexing
  • Real-time HTML report viewing at http://0.0.0.0:8080
  • Automatic report scanning and indexing
  • SQLite-based report database
  • RESTful API for report management
  • Command: drun server --port 8080 --no-open
• NEW: Report list and detail pages with pagination

v5.0.0 (2024-11-24) - Enhanced User Experience

• NEW: Smart file discovery - Run tests without .yaml/.yml extension
• IMPROVED: Unified logging format for code snippets

v4.2.0 (2024-11-24) - Code Snippet & CSV Export

• NEW: Code Snippet - Auto-generate Shell and Python scripts
• NEW: CSV Export - Export API response arrays to CSV files

v4.0.0 (2024-11-20) - Postman-Like Variable Management

• NEW: Auto-persist extracted variables to .env
• NEW: Memory-based variable passing in test suites
• NEW: Smart variable name conversion (camelCase → UPPER_CASE)

See CHANGELOG.md for complete history.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch
3. Make your changes with tests
4. Ensure drun check passes
5. Submit a pull request

License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.

Links

• Repository: https://github.com/Devliang24/drun
• Issues: https://github.com/Devliang24/drun/issues
• PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/drun/

Tips

• Use drun check before commits
• Enable --mask-secrets in CI/CD
• Organize tests by module/feature
• Use test suites for complex workflows
• Tag tests for easy filtering
• Review HTML reports for debugging
• Use hooks for custom logic
• Keep .env out of version control

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Simplifying API testing, one YAML at a time.