demo-api-testing-with-java-rest-assured

Demo project for API testing with Java, Maven and REST-Assured

Intro

This small Java project show-cases a test automation implementation for testing of REST API's based on REST-Assured testing library and Maven.

Description

This implementation encompases several basic test-cases testing the weather forecast functionalities of a small open online API's at https://api.openweathermap.org/.

Among the assertions you can see various types to API testing, like:

• smoke - checking response codes;
• performance - checking response times;
• contract - verifying correct API schema and data types
• data - testing if data in the response is as expected.

How to run

Pre-requisites

• Java (I used Java 24.0.2)
• Maven (I used 3.9.11)
• Git
• Docker - if you would like to run it in Docker

Steps

1. Checkout this project from Git
2. Install dependencies by running mvn install -DskipTests.
3. You can run tests in the CLI mode with mvn test
4. Or run it in Docker with docker-compose up api-tests