p2635 / todo-list-api-challenges

Self-learning project - My solutions to the evil tester's Todo List API challenges.

Home Page:https://www.eviltester.com/page/tools/apichallenges/

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Todo List API Challenges

About the project

This project includes my solutions to the evil tester's API challenges. The API is used to manage a To-Do list with simple CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete), here is the API documentation.

Here is a diagram that I made that visualises the API:

A UML-style diagram of the todo list API

Test Approach

Although the app is runnable locally, I decided to develop my tests against the public cloud instance (https://apichallenges.herokuapp.com/).

  • Simply doing the challenges - Initially I went through the challenges as listed. This helped me to learn more about the API, REST methods, different response codes.
  • Going beyond the challenges - Now that I finished the challenges, I can think more about how to implement automated checks and other tests beyond the challenges.

Tools used

Tool Description
Icon of Bruno API client Bruno v1.18.1 (API client) MacOS version - To read and write API requests and responses, write simple asserts e.g. check for 200 OK.

Challenges I faced

  1. Test Data Availability - On the cloud instance, the test data clears itself every 10 minutes so this makes my testing less efficient. Luckily, the API supports the save/restore of session data.

List of issues found

See logged issues on the eviltester repo (this is filtered by the issues that I logged).

What I learned

  • I learned to use the Bruno API client - configure variables, headers, auth, simple asserts, inspecting response.

License

MIT

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Self-learning project - My solutions to the evil tester's Todo List API challenges.

https://www.eviltester.com/page/tools/apichallenges/

License:MIT License