Yapitest

Yapitest (Yaml API Testing) is an API testing framework composed entirely of YAML files. Testing is frustrating enough already, and Yapitest aims to simplify the entire process of API testing through a simple interface. Frankly, the entire expect(value).toBe(0) stuff keeps me up at night.

Table of Contents

• Example
• Installation
• Further Documentation
  • Config Files
  • Tests

Disclaimer

Yapitest is still in alpha and there may be some bugs. Feel free to open up a Pull Request or submit an issue and I will try to get it tested and merged as quickly as possible.

Example

The yapitest test format was designed to be as simple as possible. Even if you have never seen a yapitest test before, you can probably infer all of what the test is doing.

Here is an example:

test-create-and-get-post:
  setup: create-user
  steps:
    - path: /api/post/create
      id: create-post
      method: POST
      headers:
        API-Token: $setup.token
      data:
        title: Some Title
        body: Some message
      assert:
        status-code: 201
    - path: /api/post/$create-post.response.post_id
      assert:
        body:
          title: "Some Title"
          body: "Some message"

1. Firstly, the name of the test (test-create-and-get-post) gives some indication of what the test is doing.

2. There is a setup which is something that runs before the test. This one, create-user is reusable step that creates a user. It is defined in a config file. Similarly, you can specify a cleanup which is run after the other steps run.

3. Then we have the steps section, which includes the actual steps of the tests.

4. The first step sends a POST request to /api/post/create, with a title and body in the payload, utilizing an API Token that the setup generated. Then asserts that the status code is 201.

5. The last step of the test sends a GET request to /api/post/$create-post.response.post_id. This $create-post.response.post_id referse to the json response of the $create-post step which has a key post_id in it. Then inside of the assert block we ensure that the data in the body contains the proper title and body values.

For more information about how to format your tests, please refer to Tests.md.

Installation

To install, run:

pip install yapitest

Then you can run it via yapitest in your terminal.

Further Documentation

• Config Files
• Tests