Testing REST webservices [closed]

Answer 1

Check out Postman - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fdmmgilgnpjigdojojpjoooidkmcomcm/. This is a tool I have been working on over the past several months and lately from the feedback that I have been getting it's becoming quite useful for large REST projects while helping with basic REST endpoint testing.

The code for this is available on Github as well. https://github.com/a85/POSTMan-Chrome-Extension

Answer 2

Please try Firefox addon Poster , which is simple to use and gets you up nd running quickly

Answer 3

Try Python's httplib. It's very easy, you specify the method, url, and use urllib.urlencode for the parameters/POST body.

This can be combined with the builtin unittest module if you like, for reporting of errors.

Answer 4

I'm testing RESTful services with an in house .NET framework (no problem porting it in Java). Basic principles:

• build client (to make the calls)
• build type classes (XML and JSON)
• deserialize response
• assert stuff

If you want more info, I'm glad to talk.

Answer 5

For java, there also exists RESTFuse, which allows to develop unit tests which may look like this:

@Rule
public Destination destination = new Destination("http://localhost:8080/rest/");


@HttpTest( method = Method.GET, path = "/status" ,authentications =
   @Authentication(type = AuthenticationType.BASIC, user = "joe", password = "doe")
)
public void testAuthRhqadmin() {
    com.eclipsesource.restfuse.Assert.assertOk(response);
}

This test runs against http://localhost:8080/rest/status and authenticates as user joe with password doe. The body of the method then checks that the GET call returns a 200 status code.

Answer 6

I know it is very old question, but could be helpful to others. Just to answer your first question you can check here to get some REST webservices to test.

Fiddler and Poster plug in Firefox can be use to test any REST web services. SoapUI also comes with RESTful webservices support.