API Test Automation with Python

A comprehensive API testing framework using Python, pytest, and the Requests library.

Project Overview

This project provides automated tests for various REST APIs including:

• Fakerest API - Activity management endpoints
• GoRest API - User authentication and data operations
• Bookings API - Hotel booking management
• ReqRes API - User creation and update operations

Tech Stack

• Python - Programming language
• pytest - Testing framework
• requests - HTTP library for API calls

Project Structure

API_Test_Automation_Python/
├── python_api_testing/       # Main API test implementations
│   ├── faker_rest_api_collection/
│   ├── go_rest_api_collection/
│   ├── bookings_api_collection/
│   └── reqres_api_collection/
├── tests/                    # Test files
├── postman/                  # Postman collections for reference
├── utils/                    # Utility functions
├── conftest.py               # pytest configuration
├── pytest.ini                # pytest settings
└── requirements.txt         # Python dependencies

Prerequisites

• Python 3.7+
• pip

Installation

1. Create a virtual environment:

   python -m venv venv

2. Activate the virtual environment:

   • Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
   • Unix/MacOS: source venv/bin/activate

3. Install dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

Running Tests

Run all tests:

pytest

Run specific test file:

pytest tests/test_get_activities.py

Run with HTML report:

pytest --html=reports/report.html

Configuration

Test configuration is in pytest.ini:

• Max failures before stopping: 2
• Verbose output enabled
• HTML report generation

Reports & CI/CD Summaries

Test reports are automatically generated locally and uploaded to GitHub Actions during every pipeline run.

1. View Locally

Locally executed test reports are written directly into the reports/ directory with explicit execution timestamps:

• Path: reports/reports_<timestamp>.html

2. Access via GitHub Actions

Every time the automated CI/CD suite triggers on a push or a pull request, the test report is bundled up as a downloadable build artifact:

1. Navigate to the Actions tab in the repository.
2. Click on the most recent completed workflow run (marked with a green checkmark).
3. Scroll down to the absolute bottom of the run summary page to the Artifacts block.
4. Click on the pytest-report archive link to download the zip file containing your execution logs and interactive HTML summary.

License

MIT License