dustyjuhl / gsrestservice

Created a simple Spring REST Service; added several testing frameworks to test REST services for comparison

Getting started with REST Service and Spring

This project was started when I wanted to create a simple REST service with Spring, just for practice.

Description

Practice building a REST Web Service with Spring from tutorial: https://spring.io/guides/gs/rest-service/

How to start the application

If you are using Maven, you can run the application using 'mvn spring-boot:run'.

How to test the service (manually)

Once the project is running, go to: http://localhost:8080/greeting Expected result: {"id":1,"content":"Hello, World!"}

Provide a name query string parameter with http://localhost:8080/greeting?name=User Expected result: {"id":2,"content":"Hello, User!"}

Overview of some test frameworks to test REST Services

This simple service was used in a POC to compare several test frameworks for testing REST services.

How to test the service using cucumber from IntelliJ

• Install the Cucumber for Java plugin in IntelliJ
• Edit run configurations: set Glue to "cucumber.stepdefs"
• Run the feature file Note: The application is started from the test

How to test the service using restassured

• start the application (see above)
• run the test (HelloWorldTest.java) in the test/java/restassured folder

How to test the service using karate

• start the application (see above)
• run the test either by running the .feature file from the test/resources folder or by running the test file in the test/java/karate folder