Module 1: REST API Basics and Terminology

• Introduction to REST API and its role in project architecture
• Understanding GET, POST, PUT, DELETE and CRUD operations
• Path parameters, query parameters, and headers in REST API
• HTTP status codes and response structures

Module 2: Getting Started with REST API Testing

• Introduction to Postman and manual API testing
• Executing GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE requests through Postman
• Validating API responses manually
• Understanding request/response cycles using real-world API examples

Module 3: REST Assured Setup for API Automation Testing

• Setting up a REST Assured Maven project with Java and Eclipse
• Building a basic REST API automation testing framework
• Validating status codes and response structure through automated code

Module 4: Validating REST API Responses

• Assertions on JSON response body and headers
• Parsing JSON response bodies using JSON Path
• Integrating multiple APIs with common JSON response values
• Building end-to-end automation using GET, POST, and PUT methods
• Importance of JUnit/TestNG assertions in response validation

Module 5: Working with Complex JSON Structures

• Understanding nested JSON structures and array notations
• Retrieving JSON array size and elements using JSON Path
• Iterating over JSON array elements
• Retrieving JSON nodes using conditional logic
• Solving real-world business logic using JSON responses

Module 6: Handling Dynamic JSON Payloads

• Importance of dynamic JSON payloads in API testing
• Sending parameters to payloads through tests
• Understanding data providers for parameterization
• Parameterizing API tests with multiple datasets
• Handling static JSON payloads

Module 7: Real-World API Automation Example

• Understanding how a real-world API works end-to-end
• Authentication for API requests
• Creating and validating API resources (GET/POST)
• Defining path parameters in automated code
• Sending attachments using multipart methods
• Combining query and path parameters in a single test
• Parsing complex JSON responses with code logic
• Importance of assertions and HTTP validations

Module 8: OAuth 2.0 Authorization

• Introduction to OAuth 2.0 and different grant types
• Understanding the grant type authorization flow
• Flow procedure for achieving OAuth 2.0 authentication
• Practicing an OAuth 2.0 project end-to-end

Module 9: Automating OAuth 2.0 Authorization Flows

• Performing automation testing for OAuth-based projects
• Integrating UI automation to generate authorization codes
• Formatting and retrieving codes programmatically
• Handling the client credentials grant type

Module 10: Serialization & Deserialization Using POJO Classes

• Understanding serialization and deserialization concepts
• Libraries required to support serialization
• Strategies for parsing complex nested JSON using POJO classes
• Creating POJO classes for nested JSON arrays
• End-to-end automation examples using POJO deserialization
• Solving complex JSON queries using POJO methods

Module 11: Serialization of Input Payloads

• Constructing JSON payloads using POJO classes
• Implementing serialization for real-world API examples
• End-to-end testing with serialization

Module 12: Request and Response Spec Builders

• Significance of spec builders in REST Assured
• Practical implementation of spec builders to optimize code

Module 13: Framework Fundamentals — Maven and BDD Basics

• Importance of Maven in framework development
• Installing and configuring Maven
• Understanding Maven terminology
• Creating and importing a Maven project
• Introduction to Cucumber and Gherkin syntax
• Understanding scenario outlines and step definitions
• Creating a project template in Cucumber
• Understanding automation terminology and regular expressions in feature files

Module 14: Building a Cucumber BDD API Framework

• Creating a Maven project with Cucumber and REST Assured dependencies
• Building feature files for REST Assured API tests
• Building test runner and step definition files
• Implementing reusable components in step definitions
• Data-driven and parameterized API testing using Cucumber
• Using enum classes to remove hardcoded resource details
• Building end-to-end test cases in framework standards
• Implementing hooks for test preconditions
• Generating Cucumber HTML reports

Module 15: CI/CD Integration

• Introduction to Jenkins as a CI tool
• Integrating the API framework into Jenkins
• Setting up parameterized Jenkins jobs for API test execution

Module 16: Version Control with Git

• Introduction to Git and GitHub
• Creating Git configurations and repositories
• Staging, committing, and pushing code
• Working with remote repositories
• Branching and resolving merge conflicts

Module 17: Data-Driven Testing with Excel

• Introduction to Apache POI for Excel integration
• Reading rows, cells, and conditional data from Excel
• Practical exercises on Excel-driven API testing
• Converting data structures into JSON for testing

Module 18: Java Fundamentals for API Automation

• Core Java programming principles
• Classes, objects, and interfaces in Java
• Strings and string manipulation
• Inheritance and its practical applications
• Arrays — single-dimensional and multidimensional

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