Slides from a lightning talk on frisbyjs a javascript testing rest api testing library that utilizes node and jasmine

2. What is Frisby.js
Frisby is a REST API testing
framework built on node.js and
Jasmine that makes testing API
endpoints easy, fast, and fun.
Installation
npm install -g jasmine-node
npm install –save-dev frisby

3. The First Toss
Headers
Verb / Endpoint
Expectations
Toss
var frisby = require('frisby');
frisby.create('Github Users')
.addHeader('User-Agent','frisbyJS Test')
.get('https://api.github.com/users/vlucas')
.expectStatus(200)
.expectHeaderContains('Content-Type', 'json')
.expectHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json;
charset=utf-8')
.expectJSON({login: 'vlucas'})
.toss();

4. Multi-Request Tests
Call Backs
.after()
function(err, res, body)
.afterJSON()
function(JSON)
frisby.create('Nested Test Repos ContainsJson Frisby')
.addHeader('User-Agent','frisbyJS Test')
.get('https://api.github.com/users/vlucas')
.afterJSON(function(jsonResponse) {
frisby.create("using response from first request")
.addHeader('User-Agent','frisbyJS Test')
.get(jsonResponse.repos_url)
.expectJSON('?',{name: 'frisby'}) //? searches array
.toss();
})
.toss();

5. View the Response
Inspectors
.inspectJSON()
formatted response
.inspectBody()
no markup
frisby.create('Frisby Post')
.addHeader('User-Agent','frisbyJS Test')
.post('https://www.httpbin.org/post', {hello: 'world'})
.inspectJSON()
.expectStatus(200)
.expectBodyContains('world')
.toss();

6. http://www.frisbyjs.com
https://github.com/brendanconnolly/FrisbyExamples
http://www.brendanconnolly.net
Twitter @theBConnolly