API Testing Recipes in Ruby

Book excerpt: 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 languageAll 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.