API Testing using Selenium Webdriver

[sachin bhangade]

Can I do API testing with Selenium Webdriver?

In my project I want to post query into database using curl/POSTMAN

then database will give some response which I have to verify against expected output.

Can I do this using selenium or Is there any other automation tool for this?

Thanks in advance.

[Nikhil Bhoski]

use rest assured

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "webdriver" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to webdriver+...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to webd...@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/webdriver.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

[Suraj Ray]

There are many third party utilities, rest-assured, apache httpClient, jersey-client, javaUrlConnection. Can use any of them.

[darrell grainger]

As others suggest, there are other tools you should use to do API testing. Selenium WebDriver is a tool to automate web browser tests. NOT plugins for web browsers but actual websites in a web browser. If you aren't trying to automate a human testing a website then there are usually better tools to test with.

A quick Google of "API testing" and I do get a lot of useless suggestions. If the implementation is REST then maybe searching for "RESTful API testing" or if it is SOAP APIs then searching for "SOAP API testing" might give better results.

Personally, I like using http://www.mbtest.org/.

[DT]

Theoretically yes, you can issue HTTP GET requests using "usual" WebDriver.get() method. For other request types you can use JavaScript Executor however it is better to go for special tools which provide better API testing functionalities, i.e. :

• SoapUI (which can be integrated with Selenium via Groovy scripting engine) 
• Apache JMeter (which can be integrated with Selenium via WebDriver Sampler)
• Using underlying libraries for your Selenium client language (i.e. Apache HTTP Components for Java) to build requests and parse responses
• Using 3rd-party libraries which provide extended web services testing functionality (i.e. REST-assured for Java)