REST tools support for development and testing [closed]

Answer 1

A fine tester for REST web services is HttpMaster.

It supports various http methods and allows you to monitor complete request/responses data. You can also use dynamic parameters to execute a group of requests, it also supports simple response data validations. It's easy to use, but it only runs on Windows (it's a .NET application).

Answer 2

You could try the REST Assured library which makes it very easy to test REST services from Java. For example given that your resource is called "greeting" and returns the following JSON:

{ "greeting" : { "firstName" : <first_name>, "lastName" : <last_name> } }

you can test it like this in REST Assured:

given().
        param("first_name", "John").
        param("last_name", "Doe").
when().
        get("/greeting").
then().
        statusCode(200).
        body("greeting.firstName", equalTo("John").
        body("greeting.lastName", equalTo("Doe");

Answer 3

I googled and found this plugin for chrome.

POSTman REST Client.

Answer 4

Runscope is a cloud based service that allows you to inspect the requests to and responses from a web API. It also does testing and measurement of API performance.

Disclaimer: I work for Runscope.

Answer 5

In terms of a client testing application, I had a similar problem. I couldn't find a tool that I could use to quickly test data going in and out of the web services I was creating/using. So I created my own tool using C# .NET. It's essentially a client application that you can use for GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE queries on rest services.

The software is called REST Scratch Pad. It lets you enter the data to send to the REST service and view the results of queries along with their headers and response times. It will handle basic authentication and will remember the URLs you've used in prior sessions (to avoid having to re-type long URLs).

The current version is free. The next version will use a newer version of .NET and cover more authentication methods.

REST ScratchPad

Answer 6

SoapUI, despite its name, can also support REST requests. Because REST usually does not supply anything like a WSDL, you are on your own creating the requests needed for your web interface though. Depending on the complexity of the REST webservice, this could be anything from trivial to demanding, but it should at least get you some results instantly.