In my previous posts [https://dev.to/dwwhalen/series/9704] I've walked through how to get started with REST Assured and API testing. We've setup our test endpoints and created a variety of test methods that validate those endpoints. You can find the complete code for

In my previous posts [https://dev.to/dwwhalen/series/9704] I've walked through getting started with API testing using REST Assured, and we've also created a variety of test methods to validate our API endpoints. In this post I want to focus on schema validation, so

In this post I want to cover some more features of REST Assured and provide examples of ways you might want to use it in your automated API testing. As a bonus, you might learn something about albums from **The Beatles**!

REST Assured is an open-sourced Java library that facilitates automated testing of API endpoints. For this post I want to walk through the steps you need to get some basic REST Assured tests up and running on your local machine.

A number of tools and frameworks exist to support automated testing of API endpoints. A relatively new player in the area is the open source tool Karate [https://github.com/karatelabs/karate]. In this post I want to review some of the basics around API testing, talk about what sets