{"id":1932,"date":"2022-06-17T06:02:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T06:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/06\/17\/clone-of-api-basics-and-architecture\/"},"modified":"2022-12-21T19:34:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T19:34:19","slug":"perform-validations-and-execute-tests-in-a-workflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/06\/17\/perform-validations-and-execute-tests-in-a-workflow\/","title":{"rendered":"Perform validations and execute tests in a workflow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perform validations and execute tests in a workflow<\/b><\/h3>\n

Welcome you all to the brand new \u2018API Testing\u2019 blog series! In the previous blog, we had studied how to execute POST requests in Postman. We also studied how to chain GET and POST requests. In this tutorial, we will learn how to perform some validations. We will also learn how to execute all the tests in a single workflow!! So let us begin!!! <\/p>\n

1. What you will Learn in this blog?<\/b><\/b><\/h3>\n
    \n
  • Perform \u2018status code 200\u2019 validation<\/li>\n
  • Perform string validation<\/li>\n
  • Execute all the tests in a collection as a single workflow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    2. Perform \u2018status code 200\u2019 validation<\/b><\/b><\/b><\/h3>\n

    Let us open the \u2018POSTwithParams\u2019 request from our collection<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    Hit \u2018Send\u2019 and notice below that 200 status code is generated<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    Let us see how to validate this status code.<\/p>\n

    Go to the \u2018Tests\u2019 section of this Post request<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    On the right hand side, under snippets, look for<\/p>\n

    \u2018Status code: Code is 200<\/b>\u2019<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    Click this snippet.<\/p>\n

    Notice below, a function is generated to validate the status 200<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    Click \u2018Send\u2019<\/p>\n

    Go to the \u2018Test Results\u2019 section as shown below. We would see that our Test is \u2018PASS\u2019 <\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    We can also rename our \u2018Test\u2019 as shown below<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    Click \u2018Send\u2019.<\/p>\n

    Notice below the \u2018Test\u2019 is PASS and the new test name is displayed viz \u2018Validate Status code\u2019<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    Let us intentionally change status code 200 to 201 in our code snippet as shown below<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    Click \u2018Send\u2019<\/p>\n

    Notice below that this time our \u2018Test\u2019 got failed and we get an assertion error. The assertion error simply means that we are expecting status code of 201 but the actual status code that we received from the server is 200. Hence our validation faied this time<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    3. Perform string validation<\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/h3>\n

    Let us now see how to perform string validation. If we go to the \u2018Body\u2019 of this Post request (see below), we can see some string values in the body (\u201ccountry\u201d: \u201cIndia\u201d)<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    How do we validate these strings?<\/p>\n

    To validate strings, we have a snippet<\/p>\n

    \u2018Response body: Contains string<\/b>\u2019<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    Click this snippet and notice below that one more function gets generated<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    Let us replace \u201cstring_you_want_to_search\u201d with \u201cIndia\u201d<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    Click Send.<\/p>\n

    Notice below that the validation \u2018Body matches string\u2019 is PASS<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    4. Execute all the tests in a collection as a single workflow<\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/h3>\n

    Currently, we have 4 requests in our collection<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    Let us see how to execute all of these 4 requests as a single workflow. <\/p>\n

    But before we do that, let us add \u2018200 status\u2019 validations in the 2 GET requests<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span>\"\"<\/span>\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    Save all the requests by clicking Save button<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    Close all the requests in the Workspace<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    Click collection<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    On the right hand side, we will see \u2018View more actions\u2019 represented by 3 dots.<\/p>\n

    Click these 3 dots, we will see the \u2018Run\u2019 option<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    Click Run.<\/p>\n

    See below. We can select\/de-select the checkboxes for the requests we want to run<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    Leave all the options as default and click \u2018Run APIRequestsCollectionHttp\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n

    The below window comes up showing 3 Passed and 1 Failed Test<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    As expected, below 3 Tests Passed<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    As expected, the below Test failed<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    Click \u2018View Summary\u2019<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    Notice below that we get a run summary which is self-explanatory<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    So this is how we perform validations and execute the tests as workflows.<\/p>\n

    In the next article, we will see how to handle cookies in postman.<\/p>\n

    Thank you for reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Perform validations and execute tests in a workflow Welcome you all to the brand new \u2018API Testing\u2019 blog series! In the previous blog, we had studied how to execute POST requests in Postman. We also studied how to chain GET and POST requests. In this tutorial, we will learn how to perform some validations. We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403,"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions\/2403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}