What’re the reasons for writing the series?

• 1st, for testing skills demonstration.

The author wanted to demonstrate his comprehensive skills within API, UI, mobile automation testing domains through a series of automation testing practices sharing.

• 2nd, for guiding those who are new to automation testing. …

How to pick the typical transactions?

Before coding the API test script, we need to pick some typical transactions from TradeMe.

And these transactions we’ve picked better to cover different types of requests, such as the get, post, delete.

And part of these transactions should correlate with each other at the …

API Function

Retrieves all or part of the Trade Me category tree.

API Function

Retrieves a list of items on the authenticated user’s watchlist.

API Function

Removes a listing from the authenticated user’s watchlist.

API Function

Retrieves the items closing soon for the whole country or for a single region.

API Function

Adds a listing to the authenticated user’s watchlist.

API Function

Retrieves a list of purchases for the authenticated user.

Multiple-quantity auctions can be purchased multiple times.

API Function

Hides a listing from the won items list.

API Function

Allows you to search for listings on Trade Me by category, by keywords or a combination of these two.

API Function

Retrieves the details of a single listing.

API Function

Buys an item using Buy Now.

Scenario‘s position in the API automation testing

Typical transactions selection -> Corresponding API selection -> Scripting -> Scenarios and reports(I’m here) -> CICD

API automation testing CI process

Typical transactions selection -> Corresponding API selection -> Scripting -> Scenarios and reports -> CI(I’m here)

The steps of Newman installation

Download and install the Newman application -> Verify your Newman installation by version -> Run Newman to get reports …

The steps of Node.js installation

Download and install the Node.js application -> Verify your Node.js installation by version -> Create a simple script …

The steps of Postman installation

Download and install the postman application -> Register your account and create the workspace -> Create the collection -> Add a request and begin your scripting …