2023-01-19 –, BioRex
When asked to automate an API, what are your options? Which libraries are there and which one is the best fit?
In this talk I'll go over the different libraries and tools that can be used to automate (http) APIs using the Robot Framework, giving insight in which option is a suitable candidate in diffent scenarios.
The following topics will be covered:
* Basics and scope
* http requests and their structure
* what is REST?
swagger and OpenAPI
* Established libraries
* RequestsLibrary
* RESTinstance
* New initiatives
* roboswag
* OpenApiDriver / OpenApiLibcore
* Custom Libraries written in Python
* the Python requests library
useful libraries
Robin is an experienced test automation engineer with over 7 years of experience with Robot Framework and Python. He's the author of OpenApiDriver and OpenApiLibCore, which taught him a lot about OpenAPI and API automation in general.