In an earlier post I set how to use Specflow to test SOAP endpoints but what about REST API’s? Given the nature of building URLs to interact with them it should be a cinch!… And it was. By leveraging use of the RestSharp library I was easily able to manipulate an example Rest interface over at http://www.thomas-bayer.com/sqlrest/. So lets have a look at […]
This post will look at setting up Specflow reports to work with NUnit3. When you install Specflow via NuGet, there is a tools folder which contains specflow.exe – if we run a batch process after the build on the CI server which points to the NUnit3 TestResult.xml, then we can generate a report and reference it as an artefact in […]
It is good practice to take a screen grab of test failures and review them later, particularly if you have some bizarre wait or timeout error that can be difficult to pin down but sometimes even these can lead you down the wrong path or not give enough context to what went wrong. This led me to explore being able […]
I’m a big fan of Specflow/ Cucumber, it’s great for creating tests to run against a front end with webdriver but what if we want to keep that same plain English BDD approach and apply it against an API for automated API Testing? It’s certainly possible and this article will cover the basics to get you up and running. I […]
What is it? Specflow has a plugin called Specflow + Excel to allow you to hoard data in a spreadsheet and run tests using the data contained within. Example Download Specflow + Excel from Nuget into your solution. Write a normal looking Scenario Outline such as below and notice that there are no items in the example table and also […]