API Testing with REST Assured Java Competency (Intermediate Level)

Topics covered

• access an API endpoint with OAuth2
• create a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions
• describe error handling and fault injection
• describe how data-driven testing works
• describe how transient errors work
• eliminate boilerplate code with Rest Assured global variables
• handle transient errors with Awaitility
• integrate tests with the Maven life cycle
• log data related to responses
• make requests to the Envoy proxy server
• modify REST Assured configurations
• parse Excel files using Poiji
• perform data-driven testing with Excel data
• perform data-driven testing with JSON data
• perform end-to-end tests using authentication
• perform fault injection with the Envoy proxy server
• poll GitHub repository for changes to create pipelines and rerun API tests
• recall how challenged and preemptive authentication work
• run an application programming interface (API) test with Jenkins and view the result
• run repetitive and boilerplate code without data-driven testing
• set up a Jenkins plugin and integrate it with Git and Maven
• set up email credentials and create an email alert with Jenkins
• set up GitHub Actions emails
• specify multiple values with a data provider function
• test APIs using plain old JavaScript objects (POJOs)
• trigger Jenkins builds with push notifications
• use OAuth for authentication to APIs
• use the request and response configuration classes
• view API endpoints and send requests
• work with composition and inheritance to write clean code for tests