Rest API Testing Slides

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Introduction to Rest Web Service

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At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
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At the end of this lesson, you will be able
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• What is Rest?
• Difference between web and Rest service
• Difference Method in Restful service.
• Creating Rest Request and Response.

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What is Rest?
REST : Representation State Transfer
• Rest is alternative to soap Protocol
• Restful service can be considered as lightweight alternative.
• Rest is not a protocol.
• Restful service is a stateless communication protocol.

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What is Rest?
• Restful service use a HTTP protocol.
• Restful service does not have standard for description format.
• Restful service data can be in the structure of XML, Json, text.
• Json is mostly widely used.
• Rest is very data-driven compared to SOAP.
• REST service in SoapUI can be imported by using WADL files.

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What is Rest?
• SoapUI Pro supports the Open API, Swagger and RAML formats.
• REST HTTP requests are:
• POST, GET, PUT, and DELETE.
• SoapUI supports HEAD, OPTIONS, TRACE, PATCH requests as well

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Web service
 Follows standard while sending
any Request and Response.
 Soap Web service is heavier.
 Performance is bad.
 Security is good.
Rest Service
 No Standard followed.
 Rest services is lightweight.
 Performance is good.
 Security is bad.
Difference Between Web and Rest Service

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HTTP Method
 GET
 POST
 PUT
 Delete
Response
 Read or Retrieve Data.
 Add New Data.
 Update data that already exist.
 Remove Data.
Different Method in Restful Service

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 Start by creating a new REST project with a single request:
• File  New Rest Project Enter the URI and click ok.
URI: http://216.10.245.166/maps/api/place/add/json?key= qaclick123
Create REST Request: Step 1

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Create REST Request: Step 2
Click on the Request toolbar and you will see the XML output returned by the service:
Response (Output in json Format)

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Create REST Request: Step 3
The request seems fine, so let's create an actual functional test for this resource. Click . Specify a name for the test suite,
test case and for the REST Request test step:

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Create REST Request: Step 4
SoapUI creates a test case with a corresponding REST Request test step:

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 HTTP
 FTP
 SOAP
 XML
1. Which of the following protocol is used by RESTful web services
as a medium of communication between client and server?
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 Represent State Transfer
 Representational State Transfer
 Represent State Transfermation
 None Of The Above
1. What REST stands for?
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