Rest API Testing (Automation) with Playwright & TypeScript

Name: Rest API Testing (Automation) with Playwright & TypeScript
Rating: 3.7 (55 reviews)

Learn how to develop a robust Playwright & Typescript API automation framework from the ground up.

Created byCameron Bradley

Last updated 1/2023

English

What you'll learn

How to setup your own local development environment. (IntelliJ and VSCode)
Planning out our API automation suite coverage with Postman.
Developing our first automation test with Playwright and JavaScript.
GET, POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE automation tests with Playwright & JavaScript.
Developing our first GET cucumber scenario together.
Introducing Cucumber World into our framework - Segregated test context.
Passing our retrieved API response in segregated context across step definitions leveraging Cucumber World.
Adding Lintrc to ensure code quality for our automation framework.
Customising the cucumber-js on runtime - Dynamic Cucumber runtime arguments.
Adding ENV files for better environment variables management.
Introducing Global Configuration into our framework to enable dynamic host routes.
Asserting on our JSON response within our automation test.
Adding the Cucumber html reporter to review automation results.
Adding parallel and retry capabilities to our automation framework.
DELETE’ing our first post and asserting on an empty JSON response.
Posting a custom json payload to our create new records.
Editing posts with PATCH and asserting on our edited response.
Updating posts with PUT.
Asserting on unsuccessful response if we attempt to update a post that does not exist.

Course content

8 sections • 40 lectures • 4h 46m total length

Introduction4:09
Develop two automation frameworks for rest api testing using Playwright and Cucumber TypeScript, built with real api projects and open-source tools.

Planning our API automation coverage using Postman - part 110:38
Plan api automation coverage with postman before building your framework, including a postman collection and end-to-end testing structure. Implement get, post, put, patch, and delete with playwright.
Planning our API automation coverage using Postman - part 29:15
Planning our API automation coverage using Postman - part 34:08
Plan api automation coverage with postman by validating failure scenarios on json placeholder operations, including 500 and 404 responses, and prepare to implement a playwright-based automation suite.
Creating our API end-to-end automation project structure and e2e folder7:01
GET, POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE with Playwright and JavaScript - part 19:40
GET, POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE with Playwright and JavaScript - part 29:15
GET, POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE with Playwright and JavaScript - part 38:49
GET, POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE with Playwright and JavaScript - part 45:57
Key Learnings0:46
Discover key learnings from using Postman for creating collections and requests (get, put, patch, delete), setting up an e2e folder, configuring Playwright tests, and reviewing the Playwright HTML report.
Quiz time!

Running our first cucumber automation test12:46
Introducing Cucumber World - part 110:24
Introducing Cucumber World - part 25:26
Passing our API response to cucumber steps with Cucumber World - part 18:55
Learn to share api responses across Cucumber steps by creating a global api response variable in the Cucumber World and validating its travel through steps with Playwright.
Passing our API response to cucumber steps with Cucumber World - part 25:05
Introducing Lintrc to ensure code quality in our automation framework7:00
Key Learnings0:54
Quiz time!

Customise the cucumber-js on runtime - part 19:13
Customise the cucumber-js on runtime - part 29:49
Configure cucumber-js at runtime with dynamic profiles (dev, smoke, regression) and a progress bar, enabling end-to-end api automation tests with runtime status checks and global api response handling.
Environment files for better environment variable management10:40
Introducing global configuration - Reusable getResponse function - part 110:50
Introducing global configuration - Reusable getResponse function - part 210:23
Key Learnings0:46
Quiz time!

Adding more GET automation tests to our suite - part 19:56
Adding more GET automation tests to our suite - part 29:55
Introducing the cucumber html reporter - Adding Parallel and Retry capabilities13:29
Adding our first automation test for DELETE9:28
Develop and run an api delete test within the existing automation framework by creating delete.feature and delete steps, asserting a 204 status with an empty payload to confirm deletion.
Key Learnings0:45
Quiz time!

Creating posts with POST - part 19:57
Create a new post using post requests with a JSON payload in the request body, validate a 201 response, and verify the returned JSON includes id, userId, title, and body.
Creating posts with POST - part 210:11
Editing posts with PATCH9:28
Updating posts with PUT7:05
Validating our json payload exists9:13
Asserting on response text errors5:37
Key Learnings0:35
Quiz time!

Requirements

The course has been designed to take you from beginner to expert in building a robust API automation framework.
You can complete this entire course on MAC, Windows on Linux.

Description

This course has been designed to simulate a real-world experience in building both a barebones Playwright and JavaScript API Automation framework and a Cucumber, Playwright & TypeScript API automation framework from the ground up for a fully-featured API.

Upon completion, you will be able to apply your learnings and the automation framework you have built into your respective companies and projects. We are confident you will become an expert in building a world-class automation framework.

Our course and the automation framework we will build together has been developed with guidance from some of the globes leading testing and software engineering professionals and because of that we believe we can offer an incredible course where we will:

- Plan and roadmap your automation coverage with Postman.

- Develop your API automation framework against a real API.

- Build two end-to-end automation frameworks from the ground up for a full-featured end-to-end API.

- Evolve your skills and continuously improve your automation framework as we progress through the course

- Learn how to build an object-orientated – engineer-reviewed and approved automation framework.

We want this course to be the best decision you have ever made for your personal growth when it comes to improving your knowledge and skills in API test automation framework architecture.

Across many hours of exciting content, I will be at the bottom right of your screen instructing and cheering you along throughout the course. You will have everything you need to learn how to build a robust API automation framework.

Who this course is for:

Manual testers interested in learning Automation
Automation Engineers
Software Testers
Software Engineers
IT Professionals

Rest API Testing (Automation) with Playwright & TypeScript

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Introduction1 lecture • 4min

Setting up your development environment4 lectures • 17min

API Testing with Playwright and JavaScript9 lectures • 1hr 5min

Introducing Cucumber and TypeScript7 lectures • 51min

Environment Variable Management and Custom Global Configuration6 lectures • 52min

Cucumber HTML Report (Parallel and Retry)5 lectures • 44min

The Final 3 - Post, Patch and PUT and asserting on response text errors7 lectures • 52min

Conclusion1 lecture • 2min

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