The Serenity framework also has nice integration for Selenium Testing and Rest-Assured that you should check out. One of those libraries that Bas uses is Rest-assured.
Well of course, if you have a user interface base or custom framework which is built around Selenium web browser you could easily extend that framework to include API testing, but you need a different tool or library for doing that. That should make it pretty clear that Selenium is not a tool for API testing. It does not simulate the interaction of a user of a system we make. Because he also sees this question quite often, surprisingly often on media such as LinkedIn or specialized test automation forums and twitter even.įor anybody who knows a little about Selenium web drivers that it's a … I'm not even calling it a test tool per say, because it's a browser automation tool that simulates the interaction of a user with a browser. How do I incorporate API testing with my Selenium Testing functional testsĪs I mentioned whenever I talk about API testing one question that probably comes to mind to most testers is, can I use Selenium for API testing, and if not how do I incorporate API testing with my functional tests.īas pointed out that he actually wrote a blog post on this fairly recently on what Selenium is and what it is not. But I liked Bas's answer on our TestTalks interview as well as during the Automation Guild Conference so much I decided to share it with you. This is actually a question that surprisingly I get asked all the time.
One question that came up during this years Automation Guild session on Testing RESTful APIs with Rest-Assured with Bas Dijkstra was was if you can use Selenium for API testing.
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