Cloud-Optimized REST API Automation Framework

Many applications deployed in the cloud are developed using Representational State Transfer (REST) protocol. Manual testing of REST-based applications has become more difficult and less efficient since the quality cannot be negotiated on main factors such as application performance and scalability. An effective generic automation framework which tests the functionality, scalability, and performance of REST-based applications can improve quality as well as the time required to complete the test activity. The approach is very different from the normal way of automating an application.

This Knowledge Sharing article describes a generic automation framework tool developed by Shoukathali C K, Shelesh Chopra, and Gururaj Kulkarni for REST-based applications. The tool is focused primarily on:

• Portability to different products as it is generic and can be expanded across
• Extensibility – Can add layers to support the future request
• Modularity – To allow plug-and-play of separate intelligent modules
• Intelligence by leveraging a cloud-optimized solution as well as analytics to store and predict various requirements
• Migration – From Legacy to REST API-based framework
• Abstraction and Simplified – User can choose what is to be automated with a high degree of abstraction to how it is automated

The authors explain the generic approach of REST-based applications which supports all areas of REST-based apps—GUI, RESTCLIENT, RESTAPI. The framework is designed is such a way that it can be used across platform and across organization regardless of application build based on REST protocol.

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