API Automation Framework

API Automation Framework using pytest and pytest-bdd

🚀 Description:

Automated CRUD (i.e., POST, GET, PUT, DELETE) operations using pytest and pytest-bdd

🚀 Prerequisites:

requests pytest pytest-bdd

🚀 Installation Steps:

In order to get the tests to run locally, you need to install the following pieces of software.

NOTE: All commands shall be executed from Automation Project root directory: ../[PROJECT_DIR]/tests/

MacOS

• Install Homebrew with /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
• Install Pyenv with brew install pyenv, this is a python version manager.
• Add the following to ~/.bash_profile

export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"
export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/shims:$PATH"
export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/completions/pyenv.bash:$PATH"

• Install python 3.8.13 with pyenv install 3.8.13
• Set python version 3.8.13 to be used globally with pyenv global 3.8.13
• Install virtualenv with python3 -m pip install --user virtualenv
• Create new virtual env with python3 -m virtualenv .venv
• Activate new virtual env with source ./.venv/bin/activate
• Install all project dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt --use-pep517
• Check the python version used with which python, which shall be [PROJECT_DIR]/tests/.venv/bin/python.

Windows / Linux

• Install GitBash
• Uninstall any previous python version
• Install python 3.8.13 using the official installation file
• Install all project dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt --use-pep517

🚀 Project Structure:

bdd-gherkin-test-automation-framework/
├─ .github/
│  ├─ workflows/
│  │  ├─ ci.yml
├─ tests/
│  ├─ data/
│  │  ├─ post_payload_1.json
│  │  ├─ post_payload_2.json
│  │  ├─ put_payload_1.json
│  │  ├─ put_payload_2.json
│  ├─ features/
│  │  ├─ sample.feature
│  ├─ lib/
│  │  ├─ terminal_report.py
│  ├─ step_definitions/
│  │  ├─ test_assertions.py
│  │  ├─ test_common.py
│  │  ├─ test_sample.py
│  ├─ utils/
│  │  ├─ __init__.py
│  │  ├─ custom_exceptions.py
│  │  ├─ logger_config.py
│  │  ├─ utils.py
│  ├─ .env
│  ├─ .gitignore
│  ├─ conftest.py
│  ├─ pytest.ini
│  ├─ requirements.txt
├─ LICENSE
├─ README.md

🚀 Test Execution:

• Fork the repository bdd-gherkin-api-test-automation-framework
• Clone the repository via HTTPS git clone https://github.com/<your_github_username>/bdd-gherkin-api-test-automation-framework.git or via SSH git clone [email protected]:<your_github_username>/bdd-gherkin-api-test-automation-framework.git
• Open Pycharm (or any IDE) > File > Open > Open the project where the repository is located (i.e., ../bdd-gherkin-test-automation-framework/tests)
• Run the command: python -m pytest -v --gherkin-terminal-reporter --reruns 1 --reruns-delay 1 --tags="automated" -s --color="yes" in Terminal

🚀 Pycharm Edit Configuration:

• Go to Edit Configurations...
• Add New Configuration (+ sign) > Python tests > pytest
• Provide Target Script path and Working directory (i.e., ../bdd-gherkin-test-automation-framework/tests)
• Select the required Python interpreter
• And, Additional Arguments: -v --gherkin-terminal-reporter --reruns 1 --reruns-delay 1 --tags="automated" --color="yes"