Functional REST API testing in ASP.NET Core

Functional REST API testing in ASP.NET Core

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  Functional REST APItesting in ASP.NET Core
• 2.
  Does anyone knowwhy the API isn’t working anymore?
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  Because api/product/1 isnot the same as api/products/1
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  SystemTests Integration Unit
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  FunctionalTests
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  How to testcontrollers and actions
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  How to testcontrollers and actions… Not!
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  What we DOwant to test • The API contract • Resource access (routing) • Accepted verbs • Response codes • Response format/representation • API versioning and backwards compatibility • Validation • Access control
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  How it usedto be back in the day
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  Nancy had theright ideea
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  But we justusedWebApi and Postman
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  WebApi self hostingwith HttpSelfHostServer
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  Why not starta host and server the API during tests?
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  OWIN, Katana andTestServer
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  Nowadays – ASP.NETCore 2.1
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  Pick your testingframework
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  Add some nugetpackages
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  Start writing tests(DEMO) https://github.com/sdamian/RestApiTestingDemo
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  Separate the API(unit) tests from your business logic tests
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  Friends don’t letfriends use untested API’s
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  Thank you!