Description

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API popularity skyrocketed with the rise in smartphone use, and many new software developed for web and mobile platforms provide APIs. Microservices architecture that develops a single application as a suite of small services exposed as HTTP resource API, is becoming a hot topic. Now more than ever, software projects demand efficient API testing. API Testing Recipes in Ruby will show you solutions for efficient API testing, including: - generating flexible request data, e.g. SOAP message, CSV/Excel - invoking various APIs, e.g. SOAP, REST - parse returned response, e.g. XML, JSON - fully automating all test scripts, no manual intervention - executing all test scripts as regression testing in a CI server - leveraging easy to read and powerful Ruby script language All recipe test scripts (80+ in Ruby language) are ready to run. Owning this book is like having a test automation coach sitting next to you.

About the Author

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Zhimin Zhan is the founder and Continuous Integration Officer of AgileWay Pty Ltd, Australia. As an advisor and coach, he helps organzations by implementing test automation with Continuous Integration using open technologies such as Selenium WebDriver. Zhimin is the creator of TestWise, the next-generation functional testing tool that supports functional test refactorings, a frequent speaker and writer. He shares his test automation and CI experience at testwisely.com.