API Automation with REST Assured TestNG Cucumber & CI

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction to The Course

Lecture 2: What you will learn – Course Highlights(Preview)

Lecture 3: Read Before You Enrol

Chapter 2: Installation and Resources

Lecture 1: Course Resources – Git Repos and zip Files

Lecture 2: Installations of Maven, JDK21 and IntelliJ Setup

Chapter 3: Introduction to RequestSpecification Class – API Request from scratch

Lecture 1: APIs in Plain English and Introduction to REST Assured

Lecture 2: RequestSpecification Class – How it all starts?

Lecture 3: Setup REST Assured and TestNG for New Project

Lecture 4: Our First API Call with Basics of Content Type & Headers

Lecture 5: Set Path and Query Params

Lecture 6: Request and Response Logging Filters and Pretty Print Option

Lecture 7: Reusing RequestSpecification and Given, When, And Syntactic Sugar

Chapter 4: Assertions, Validations and Response Data Extraction

Lecture 1: Response Validations, Hamcrest Matchers with JSONPaths

Lecture 2: Response Data extraction with JSONPaths

Lecture 3: Response JSON Schema Validation and Example of RootPath

Chapter 5: Basic and Digest Authentication with RestAssured

Lecture 1: HTTP DELETE Call, Basic and Digest Auth Examples

Lecture 2: Custom on-demand Auth Headers

Chapter 6: Serialisation & Deserialisation: Using Java Objects for Request and Response

Lecture 1: Set Request Body: HTTP POST & PUT Call with Auth and Path Params

Lecture 2: Serialisation : Plugins to create POJO, Request Classes with Lombok

Lecture 3: Deserialisation: Parsing API Response as POJO and Assertions

Chapter 7: OAuth 2.0 with Imgur API Examples and File Uploads

Lecture 1: Generate Imgur API Access and Refresh tokens

Lecture 2: OAuth 2.0: Multi-part file upload + OAuth 2.0 with RestAssured

Lecture 3: Create Access Token with refresh tokens

Chapter 8: RestAssured Framework with TestNG and Allure Reports

Lecture 1: Framework Best Practices: SRP, DRY Principles

Lecture 2: Design Abstract Base HTTP Client

Lecture 3: Advanced Property Util with Aeonbits Owner API

Lecture 4: Design API Classes and Enums – Part I

Lecture 5: Design API Classes and Enums – Part II

Lecture 6: Design TestNG Test Classes – GET and POST Booking APIs

Lecture 7: Design TestNG Test Classes – Request Helper Util and PUT API Tests

Lecture 8: IntelliJ Code Style Changes and DELETE API Tests

Lecture 9: JavaFaker and TestDataUtil Class

Lecture 10: TestNG DataProvider with Java Streams and JavaFaker I

Lecture 11: TestNG DataProvider with Java Streams and JavaFaker II

Lecture 12: Setup Parallel Tests, Test Isolation, TestNG XML and Allure Reports

Lecture 13: CRUD Test Example with common DataProvider and BaseTest Class

Lecture 14: Retry Failed Tests with TestNG Listeners

Lecture 15: Awaitility DSL – Retry Code Blocks and Failed Assertions

Lecture 16: Maven Surefire: TestNG Parameters and Command Line Options

Chapter 9: Advanced Usage of JSONPath – Filter JSONs without Java Code

Lecture 1: Examples of Jayway JSONPath – Advanced JSONPath Usage

Chapter 10: RestAssured Framework with Cucumber BDD and Allure Reports

Lecture 1: Introduction to Cucumber – Gherkins Keywords, DataTables, Arguments

Lecture 2: HTTP GET Example with Step Definitions and Folder Structure

Lecture 3: Cucumber Dependency Injection: Share Data Between Steps

Lecture 4: HTTP POST Api with DataTable and Scenario Outline(Examples)

Lecture 5: TestNG Cucumber Parallel Runner with Cucumber Configuration Options

Lecture 6: HTTP PUT and DELETE Call with DataTables and Step Arguments

Lecture 7: E2E CRUD Test With Validations

Lecture 8: Cucumber Pretty Plugin and Retry Failed Scenarios with TestNG

Lecture 9: Cucumber Global Hooks and Cucumber Feature File Tags

Lecture 10: Updated POM XML and Cucumber Command Line with Maven

Chapter 11: Advanced Usage on Framework Level

Lecture 1: Separate Maven Profiles for Sequential and Parallel Runs

Lecture 2: RestAssured Socket & Connection Timeouts and Handle Redirects

Chapter 12: Continuous Integration: GitHub Actions, Jenkins Pipeline and Dockerization

Lecture 1: GitHub Workflow from scratch using Credential Secrets with Allure Reports

Lecture 2: API Tests Jenkins Pipeline & Jenkinsfile from scratch with HTML Reports

Lecture 3: Parameterised Jenkins Pipeline with Environment Variables and Credentials

Lecture 4: Run API Tests in Docker Environment using a Dockerfile

Lecture 5: Docker inside Parameterised Jenkins Pipeline using Docker Plugin

Chapter 13: Theoretical Notes: JsonPath, Maven, Cucumber Cheat Sheets

Lecture 1: JsonPath Cheat Sheet

Lecture 2: xPath Cheat Sheet

Lecture 3: Maven Test Command Options

Chapter 14: Downloadable Interview Questions for RestAssured, APIs, Java

Lecture 1: Response Parsing Questions and Answers

Lecture 2: RequestSpecification Interview Questions and Answers

Lecture 3: Java Exception Questions and Answers

Lecture 4: Path Params vs Query Params, Request body – Questions with Answers

Lecture 5: HTTP, HTTPS and REST – Questions and Answers

Lecture 6: Collections

Lecture 7: APIs in General

Lecture 8: Java Keywords

Lecture 9: Java Synchronisation

Lecture 10: TestNG Questions

Lecture 11: Authentication questions in context of API Testing

Lecture 12: JSONPath and xPath Questions

Chapter 15: Practice Section I