Automation Exercise - API Testing & Automation

API testing and automation framework for the Automation Exercise REST APIs, developed using Java, Rest Assured, TestNG, Maven, JSON, and Allure Reports.

The project covers positive and negative API scenarios across product, brand, search, authentication, and user account operations.

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📌 Project Overview

This project was developed to practice and demonstrate API testing and automation skills using a structured Java-based testing framework.

The framework includes:

• REST API functional testing
• Positive and negative test scenarios
• HTTP method validation
• Response status code validation
• JSON response validation
• Request parameter validation
• POJO-based response mapping
• JSON test data handling
• Reusable API utilities
• TestNG test execution
• Maven project management
• Allure test reporting

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🧪 API Testing Scope

The project covers 14 API test scenarios provided by Automation Exercise.

Products API

#	Method	Endpoint	Scenario
1	GET	/productsList	Verify all products are returned successfully
2	POST	/productsList	Verify unsupported HTTP method handling

Brands API

#	Method	Endpoint	Scenario
3	GET	/brandsList	Verify all brands are returned successfully
4	PUT	/brandsList	Verify unsupported HTTP method handling

Search API

#	Method	Endpoint	Scenario
5	POST	/searchProduct	Search for products using a valid search parameter
6	POST	/searchProduct	Verify behavior when the search parameter is missing

Login API

#	Method	Endpoint	Scenario
7	POST	/verifyLogin	Verify login using valid credentials
8	POST	/verifyLogin	Verify validation when the email parameter is missing
9	DELETE	/verifyLogin	Verify unsupported HTTP method handling
10	POST	/verifyLogin	Verify login with invalid credentials

User Account APIs

#	Method	Endpoint	Scenario
11	POST	/createAccount	Create a new user account
12	DELETE	/deleteAccount	Delete an existing user account
13	PUT	/updateAccount	Update an existing user account
14	GET	/getUserDetailByEmail	Retrieve user details using email

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🛠️ Technologies & Tools

Technology / Tool	Purpose
Java	Programming language
Rest Assured	REST API automation
TestNG	Test execution and test organization
Maven	Dependency and project management
Gson	JSON test data deserialization
Jackson	API response parsing
JSON	Test data and API response handling
Allure	Test reporting
IntelliJ IDEA	Development environment
Git	Version control
GitHub	Source code management

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🏗️ Framework Architecture

The project follows a modular structure separating test cases, API configuration, response parsing, validation, POJOs, and test data.

TestNG
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API Test Cases
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   ├── BaseTest
   │      │
   │      └── ConfigReader
   │
   ├── Rest Assured
   │      │
   │      ▼
   │   Automation Exercise APIs
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   ├── ResponseParser
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   ├── ResponseValidator
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   ├── POJO Classes
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   └── JSON Test Data
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      Allure Reports

📊 Test Execution & Allure Report

The framework is integrated with Allure Reports for visual test execution results and detailed reporting.

Latest Execution

Metric	Result
Total Test Cases	19
Passed	19
Failed	0
Pass Rate	100%
Test Suites	2

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