API Testing with Cypress

Getting started

The repository contains code that demonstrate how cypress can be used to do API Testing.

The API endpoints used here are from website (https://fakerestapi.azurewebsites.net/index.html)

Kindly note that as these are dummy endpoints so no data will be actually deleted, updated or created. You will just receieve a Mocked repsosne.

The Basic HTTP methods are tests are demonstrated.

• GET
• POST
• PUT
• DELETE

Clone Repository

• [Create] Folder on your local machine
• Clone Repository using below command

git clone https://github.com/the-test-trove/api-tests-cypress.git

Run Tests from You Machine

• Please ensure that you have node version 12 or higher is installed.
• Open the project using VS Code and Open Terminal
• Perform npm install so that all the required dependencies required for cypress are available
• In order to run the tests using cypress runner execute command "npx cypress open" and select the spec file that needs to run.
• In order ot execute all the tests in headless mode execute the command "npm run test"

Integrate with Github Actions

• The test execution can be done in github with Github actions.