API & Microservices Testing Syllabus 🔍🛠️

API Testing 🔌

1. Introduction to API and Definition 📡

   • Overview of API concepts and definitions.

2. Website Architectures 🌐

   • 3-Tier Website vs. Website with Services (n-tier)
     Understand the differences between traditional websites and service-oriented designs.

3. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) 🏛️

   • Fundamentals and key concepts of SOA.

4. Services Development & Testing, Registration, and Utilization 🔧

   • Types of Services:

     • RESTful Services 🔄

     • Microservices 🌀

   • Development Technologies:

     • Technologies used in services/API development.

5. HTTP Fundamentals 🌍

   • HTTP, HTTP Methods, HTTP Response Codes, HTTPS (HTTP + SSL) 🔒

6. Webserver vs. Application Server 🖥️ vs. 🏢

7. DNS & Proxy 🌐

   • DNS: Definition and its uses.

   • Proxy: How proxies work and why they’re used.

8. Need for API Testing 🔍

   • Emphasizing the agile process and the necessity of API testing.

9. Service-Oriented Architecture Terminology 📚

   • Key terms and definitions used in SOA.

10. Test Pyramid for API Testing 🔺

    • HTTP Request Algorithm 📤

    • HTTP Response Algorithm (Case Study & Notes) 📥

    • Create a REST Project 📁

    • Select HTTP Method 🛠️

    • Add Parameters ➕

11. Types of API Parameters 📝

    • Template/Path Parameters 🛣️

    • Query Parameters 🔍

    • Matrix Parameters 🔢

    • Request Body Parameters 🗒️

    • Request Header Parameters 📋

    • Authentication Options:

      • Way-1: Credentials Authentication 🔑

      • Way-2: Bearer Authorization/HMAC Authorization 🔐

      • Way-3: API Keys 🗝️

      • Way-4: OAuth 2.0 🔄

    • Plain Parameters

    • Resource Naming using practical programs (SOAP UI Tool) 🧩

12. Convert Request to Test Case (Navigation) 🧭

13. Add Assertions ✔️

14. Expressions vs. Tools vs. Languages ⚙️

15. Regular Expressions 🔍

16. XPath Expressions 📏

17. XQuery Expressions 🔎

18. JSON with JSONPath 🗂️

19. WADL and WSDL Files 📄

20. Run Test Case to Submit Request 🚀

21. Analyze Response and Test Results 📊

22. RestAssured Getting Started 🤖

    • Why Static Imports? 🔧

    • Method Chaining Concept ➰

    • Automate GET Request:

      • Assert Status Code 📤✅

      • Assert Response Body 📤📝

      • Extract Response 📤📥

      • Extract Single Field 🔍

    • Hamcrest Assertions:

      • What is Hamcrest and why is it popular? 🌟

      • Executing Hamcrest Collection Matchers 📏

23. RestAssured – Logging 📝

    • Request & Response Logging

    • Log on Error/Validation Failure ⚠️

    • Log Blacklist Headers 🚫

24. RestAssured Handling Headers 🏷️

    • What are Headers? ℹ️

    • Setting Up a Mock Environment for Headers 🛠️

    • Handling Multiple Headers:

      • Using Headers directly, via Map, and Multi-Value Headers ➕

25. RestAssured – Request Specification 📝

26. RestAssured – Response Specification 📊

27. RestAssured – Automate CRUD Operations 🔄

    • POST, PUT, GET, DELETE requests.

28. RestAssured – Sending Request Payloads 🚀

    • Multiple ways to send payloads.

29. RestAssured – Send Complex JSON Requests 🗃️

30. RestAssured – Handling Request Parameters 📋

31. RestAssured – File Upload & Download 📤📥

32. RestAssured – Filters 🔍

33. Serialization & De-serialization 🔄

34. Jackson Annotations 🖋️

35. Complex POJO 🧩

36. Authentication and Authorization 🔑

Microservices Testing 🌀

1. Introduction to Microservices and Definition 🔄

2. Difference between WebServices and Microservices ⚖️

3. How Microservices Differ from WebServices 🔍

4. Architecture of Microservices 🏗️

5. Microservices Characteristics 🌟

6. Key Challenges of Microservices ⚠️

7. Test Pyramid for Microservices 🔺

8. Wiremock and Its Configuration 🔌

9. Developing Mock Services 🛠️

10. Isolation Testing 🔬

11. Component Testing 🧩

12. CDCT (Component Driven and Contract Testing) 📜