neopragma / restassured

Sandbox for learning about RestAssured

RestAssured sandbox

RestAssured or Cucumber-JVM?

RestAssured pros

• No need to URL encode strings to be passed on HTTP commands; handled under the covers
• Fluid API may be appealing if all you want is test automation without Specification by Example

RestAssured cons

• No direct support for parsing Gherkin; must use an additional tool (such as Cucumber...hmm)
• Fluid API makes it hard to extract reusable logic in between RestAssured method calls
• Use of annotations leads to method names that can be either redundant or not very expressive of intent; cluttered code

Cucumber pros

• More readable (in my opinion); Lambda-style stepdefs are concise, clean
• Easier to structure code for reusability because you can insert calls to any method in the midst of stepdefs (because it isn't a fluid API)
• No need to learn and support multiple tools; Cucumber handles both Gherkin parsing and step automation

Cucumber cons

• Requires custom JUnit runner (minor inconvenience)