In article <bbdb1f48-9fe8-43af-a765-de5894d38...@googlegroups.com>, neeraj.bakht...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi folks, > This is Neeraj , I want to develop some standalone python Scripts to Test > Rest Webservices i.e. WADL services with endpoints. > > Particularly I need "A script for logging in would pass the xml to the rest > api with variables for all the payload fields python" > > > So Can Anyone please provide me some sample scripts or tutorials or package > that can help me in above Scenario for automating the Rest WebService Testing > for me > > I am new to python.So please bear with me..:) > > Thanks in advance The question you are asking is broad, so I can only make some general suggestions. You've really got two needs here. One is you need some kind of test framework, the other is that you need some way to talk to an HTTP server. Let's attack those one at a time. Test framework. Testing is all about writing down a list of things you believe to be true, and then exercising the code to verify that they are indeed true. When I do X, I expect Y to happen. If it does, the test passes. If not, the test fails. Generally you write a large number of these tests, and run them all. A lot of this is boilerplate. You need some way to organize all the individual tests. Run them (or perhaps run subsets of them). Record which ones passed or not. Set up the right environment for each test to run, and possibly clean up after each one. The idea of a test framework is that it takes care of most of this for you automatically, letting you concentrate on the test logic. There's a couple of choices for test frameworks. The standard one that comes packaged with Python is unittest (https://docs.python.org/2/library/unittest.html). I used to use it a lot, but I've come to regard it as somewhat klunky. Still, it's the standard. If you've used JUnit, it has the advantage that it will feel very familiar. A newer alternative is nose (https://nose.readthedocs.org/), which is what I mostly use now. Nose simplifies some things, but sometimes can be a bit difficult to understand (the docs can be a bit obtuse in places). The big advantage of nose is it has some very powerful tools for running tests in parallel. If you have a lot of tests that are I/O bound, this can seriously reduce the time to run your test suite. There's also doctest (https://docs.python.org/2/library/doctest.html), but for the kind of testing you want to do, it's probably not the right tool. I include it only for completeness. OK, so now, how to talk to your HTTP service. That's easy. You want to use requests (http://docs.python-requests.org). If your web service involves persisting state on the client side with cookies, you'll want to explore requests' session functionality. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list