datnq102 / cucumber-integration-testing

Integration Testing your HTTP API with Cucumber

Integration Testing your HTTP API with Cucumber

This repository is an example application for demonstrating Cucumber testing of an HTTP API. The tag "application-to-test" shows the application with no tests at all, and all commits after this tag show adding Cucumber tests to the system.

Application

The application in question has the following endpoints:

• Getting an Insecure resource - GET /api/insecure
• Getting a Secure resource, which needs an access token to retrieve - GET /api/secure
• Getting an Access Token by authenticating - GET /api/auth
• Getting a List of resources - GET /api/list
• Modifying a resource - POST /api/insecure
• Resetting the system to a known state - POST /api/reset

Structure

The application itself lives in src/server. This can be run manually by executing node src/server/index.js.

The tests all live in src/acceptance. These can be executed by running grunt acceptance, which will:

• Start the server
• Run the tests against the server
• Shut everything down