prashanth-sams/client-api

HTTP REST API client for testing APIs based on the ruby’s RSpec framework that binds a complete api automation framework setup within itself

Lead QA Engineer | Automation Architect

QA Automation Architect contributing to the IT industry since 2011. He authored a book, "Selenium Essentials" in March 2015, contributes and developed open-source projects, and blogs about DevOps in devopsqa.wordpress.com, a great supporter for the selenium community by responding to diligent Q&A over professional networks. In spite of having rich experience in assorted projects as a Test Automation Engineer, he has also been a Business Development Manager, HR Executive, HR Sourcer/Recruiter, and Developer in his past career timeline.

My quotes

“Test without an assertion is not a test”

“Tool does matter unless you know how to create it”

“I’m faster, my bots are faster than me”

“Talk is meaningless without data”

🛠️ Tech stack

Type	Skills
Contract Testing	PactFlow, Pact (pact.io), OpenAPI / OAS (Swagger)
Mobile Automation	XCUITest, Espresso, Appium
Front-End Automation	Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Protractor, Capybara, CasperJS
API Automation	REST-Assured, Postman, Ruby (Client-API), Javascript (Supertest / Frisby), Insomania
Performance	JMeter, Locust, SitespeedIO, Lighthouse
Security	Burp Suite
Script	Kotlin, Swift, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Shell (bash), Groovy, Linux cmds
BDD Framework	Cucumber (Ruby), Behave, JBehave, Cucumber-js
CI/CD	Fastlane, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, AWS, Jenkins job-dsl, Bitrise, Terraform, Zalenium, Codeship, Travis CI
Database	MySql, Firebase, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, InfluxDB
Monitoring	Grafana, DataDog, Kibana, Prometheus, Graphite
Unit Test Framework	JUnit5, Pytest, TestNG, Jasmine, RSpec
A/B Testing	Google Optimize, Optmizely, GTM
Version Control	GIT, SVN [GitHub, Gitlab, Stash and BitBucket]
IDE	PyCharm, IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, VS Code, RubyMine, Eclipse, Sublime Text 3, Atom
Defect Tracking and Project Management Tool	JIRA, Redmine, Mantis, Agilefant, TRAC
Test Management Tool	TestRail, XRay, TestLink, TestRun
Dev Tools	Spring Boot, ReactJS, Redux, Firebase

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client-api's Issues

factory girl - mock fixtures

logger

client-api --help

additional headers from test

add data-type

• date
• null

getting 200 response on invalid uri

add opensssl dependency

validation without value should work for date

yaml support

store cookies and reuse

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1486703/how-to-implement-cookie-support-in-ruby-net-http

Add true false as datatype alias

boolean validation

validate_key availability

schema validation

Throw error on wrong key, value, operator, etc., in validator

fix travisci tests

add test name in logger

add cookies

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1486703/how-to-implement-cookie-support-in-ruby-net-http

response body history

multi base_url

basic auth

Refactor body method with output file

validation_json with fields exempted

Hooks

Empty Basic auth

"Authorization"=>"Basic Og=="

validate response headers

custom log files

When using validate_json method empty strings "" gives an error

When i validate response that has empty string - error is displayed with actual : null

Cant validate the full schema without specifying exact values

Currently if i want to test exact schema but without specifying values - it wont work
Lets say in case when extra field has been added in API - it will still pass in test and we would like to check it

Is there a way to do it using your framework?

validation with contains

json validation

JSON -> Dict for comparison

Refactor request file

exact failure msg

response headers in logger

multi validation steps

Handle timeout - delays

Save output with dynamic json template name

proxy authentication

validation without value should work for boolean

Fix pdf response body

verify_ssl = false

verify_ssl = false
.configuration.verify_ssl = fals

parallel tests

validate >= greater than

Dont accept two headers with same key

Multiple Hash inside an Array fail in validate_json

"xxx": [
              "yyy",
              "zzz"
            ],

validate json with muti arrays

reporting

parameterize json in ruby file

add cookies in logger

Size checker