Node-based JSON RESTFul API testing tool

[Mayank Gupta]

Hi,

We have a node-based JSON REST API and we use mocha for unit testing.

I’m looking for a node-based functional api testing framework (preferably one that uses mocha as a runner). Do you have any recommendations? Does anyone have experience with 'chakram' for this purpose?

-Thanks

Mayank Gupta

[Simon Renoult]

Hello,

We have been using cucumber.js for the last 16 months. Though it does not use mocha as a runner, it does the job quite well. Its easy to learn syntax allowed our product owner and business analyst to write the functional tests themselves.

[Carl Sutherland]

Hey Mayank,

I've used mocha with a number of different libraries for testing APIs.  Starting with request-promise and your favorite assertion library eg. chai works well!  Many assertion libraries have extensions for HTTP-specific assertions, which can be useful.

I've tried higher-level HTTP testing abstractions for mocha in the past (eg. supertest) and ended up going back to something lower-level like request.

Best,

-Carl

[Marsh Gardiner]

I work with the people behind http://apigee.com/about/blog/developer/swagger-test-templates-test-your-apis . If you're already working with Swagger/OpenAPI descriptions, it might be worth exploring.

On Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at 5:17:27 AM UTC-7, Mayank Gupta wrote: