Robot framework REST API testing with JSON schema

Learn to automate your Rest API tests with robot framework, python and JSON schema - with hands on exercises!

Created by: Sven Ernst
Senior software test automation engineer

What Will I Learn?

• Test REST api JSON responses automatically against a self designed JSON schema
• Build up a basic structure for a new robot framework test project
• Build GET/POST/DELETE requests with the robot framework request-library
• How to read and write JSON schemas
• Write, run and debug robot framework testcases in VScode with the robot framework language server
• Test an API with datadriven tests and valid suite setups/teardowns
• Understand the basic usage of postman
• Understand how schema tests are used to test data structure of responses

Requirements

• You need to have a basic understanding of robot framework
• You do easier with some basic understanding of python
• You need to know the basics of REST API's and request types like GET/POST/DELETE

Target audience

• Everyone who knows a little of robot framework and wants/needs to automate API tests
• Test automation engineers who did not yet test API's
• API testers and test automation engineers who struggle to test bigger API responses
• API testers and test automation engineers who are interested in how to test an API with JSON schemas