Execute API Test
Conektto's Autonomous API Test Studio uses NLP technology to analyze and create test harness for executing all your tests. Before you continue on this section, make sure you read the previous section.
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Conektto's Autonomous API Test Studio uses NLP technology to analyze and create test harness for executing all your tests. Before you continue on this section, make sure you read the previous section.
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After successfully publishing your API test project, you can download the API workspace from Conektto's Dashboard as illustrated below.
Conektto's API Test Workspace works locally on your desktop or on a VM or cloud instance. The test workspace is composed of set of docker containers
ReactUI - To interact and perform test execution
NodeJS - API backend to interact with ReactUI and backedn MongoDB
MongoDB - Backend database to store test workspace data
FlaskAPI - For data retrieval from MongoDB to enable test data insertion and to persist test results
Mock services - To run mock runners for the API under test
Test Runner engine - To run functional API tests and analyze results
Grafana UI - Pre-built Grafana Dashboard to visualize performance test results
InfluxDB - Time series database for persisting performance test data
Downloadable API Workspace is named with "Proj" prefix followed by name of your API project: as in "Proj_Demo_DocAPItest.zip"
Unzip the contents and open the contained folder in Terminal or Command line
For each API test project designed and published in Conektto, you can see following features:
The mock endpoints for the API under test is deployed locally in port 8008. The mock can be hosted on VM or cloud as well.
Conektto generates all Test Data for your entire database despite your API under test is only related to few entities. The test data is generated with unique patent pending algorithm that ensure entity relationship, order, sequence and overall integrity of the database and ready to be inserted into your database.
Conektto auto generates all API test cases and test execution engine for functional and performance. The functional tests can be executed against mock or real endpoint.
Conektto's performance test executions are persisted in InfluxDB container and can be visualized for relevant performance metrics in the Grafana plug-in.
Check the system requirements section for Docker Desktop requirements
When you are setting up the API workspace first time, it could take several minutes. After successful install, the future setup takes only few minutes.
Watch for Terminal or Powershell CMD prompt messages confirming successful completion of the setup process.
Confirm the installation by manually inspecting your Docker Desktop
Congratulations on successful setup. Examine if your API workspace setup is correct by launching API workspace on your browser
Select the API test projects that is now setup locally as test workspace.
Visualize - Conektto's 0.1 version of API visualization from a schema perspective
Virtualize / mock - Mock endpoints consumable locally or VM or cloud
Test Data - Test data generated for functional and performance tests that are automatically associated with tests once completed insertion back to your database. You can generate more data as needed
Tests - Functional and Performance test case and execution platform auto generated by Conektto
Test Results - Test results viewer to analyze test execution results
Click on Virtual Endpoint Host : http://localhost:8008/vs/proj_db_50-8b11-4f70-8f3e-3d4c127542d1
The test data is generated for Functional and Performance tests. Once data is inserted, the data is automatically associated with auto generated tests for Test Execution.
Click on INSERT to insert test data into your database and provide host credentials.
Conektto recommends you do not use your production database for insertion as this could impact on your existing live customer data sets.
Click on GENERATE MORE DATA if your existing test data is exhausted after insertion and test execution.
Generate request has limitations with your subscriptions. Check for additional details.
Generate button will be disabled until successful execution of tests for previosuly inserted test data.
Click on Performance link to view the test data generated for Performance Tests.
Below is the illustration of test data generation feature. This will be enabled only when all test data are exhausted. For download and setup instructions of generated test data, refer Download and Install API Test Workspace.
Test cases generated by Conektto covers: all status codes in the API contract, mandatory and optional parameters, schema validation and data validation. Click on the Test Case Name to review the full payload including assertion details.
Click "Full Payload" to see the assertion details for each of the tests.
Click "Run Tests" to execute all the tests for the respective API test project.
You can see the progress of the tests as they execute.
View test execution results in the "Test Results" tab
Test execution resutls displayed as summary, detailed as well as visual representation of your API endpoints.
Conektto auto generates performance tests along with the test data for respective volume that are executed locally on the docker containers. Select the type of the performance tests from the drop down:
Baseline: Basic benchmark tests with low volume, shorter duration and slower ramp-up
Load - Lower volume, shorter duration but faster ramp-up threads
Stress - Higher volume and longer duration of threads
Endurance - Lower volume and longer duration of threads
Launch Grafana container from with default Grafana user name as admin and password as admin@123
Contact for testing high volume performance scenarios on Kubernetes Cluster which is currently only for a Enterprise users.
