REST API Testing using SOAP UI - Quick Introduction

Explains the rest architecture, resources and stateless communication, compares rest with soap, and covers core http methods (post, put, get, delete) for testing restful web services.

Learn how json, a lightweight data interchange format, uses key-value pairs in braces to structure objects and arrays for client–server requests and responses; understand parsing essentials.

Set up a rest api testing environment with soap ui as the client against a provided web server, installing Java runtime and databases such as my sequel or coach db.

Set up a MySQL database for a REST API webservice by installing MySQL and Workbench, creating a database and tables for customer, orders, and products.

Learn to run a rest api web service locally by installing Java, copying jar files, configuring MySQL tables for customer, order, and product, and launching the server with api docs.

Download the soapui free open-source version for manual testing from google, install the windows 64-bit or 32-bit installer, and launch soapui to explore its basic features.

Explore rest api testing with soap ui, configure endpoints, send json post requests, and interpret request and response tabs to create data and view metadata and status.

Discover how an endpoint identifies a web service by its host or IP, how environment endpoints vary, and how SoapUI displays method and JSON content type.

Explore how rest api models resources and collection resources, using path parameters to uniquely identify customers, orders, and products, with examples of get, post, put, and delete operations.

Discover REST API http status codes, from 200 success to 4xx and 5xx errors. Learn authentication, authorization, not found, method not allowed, and conflict handling in requests.

Learn to use query parameters with the get method in REST API testing with Soap UI, filtering by first name and state, and handling 200, 400, and 500 responses.

Understand how to use get requests with path parameters in a rest api, distinguish path versus query parameters, and identify when responses return a single resource or a collection.

Use SoapUI to apply a put request, update city and state via a request body, and verify changes with a follow-up get.

Learn how to perform delete requests in SoapUI, verify resource existence, and interpret 204 no content for success and 404 not found for non-existent resources.

Explore adding an order resource in rest api testing with soap ui, covering post, get, put, delete flows, manual vs automated testing, and handling statuses and api documentation.

Learn how to manage products under an order and customer using a product collection resource with post and get, and how a single product resource supports get, put, and delete.

Discover the growing job opportunities in REST API testing as data flows across web, mobile, streaming, and smart devices, and learn how automation and continuous integration drive quality.