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Mahesh9100's avatar
Mahesh9100
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4 years ago

How create a single test suite to support multiple environment with assertion

Hi all, I am new  to API automation with ReadyAPI. Great if anyone could advice me on below scenario with the industry best practices.  I have a requirement to create an API regression test suite wh...
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nmrao
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There is feature exist called Environment where one can define different environments as you mentioned. One can choose environment during test execution.

However, IMO, the test request and response and assertions would be the same.

Would you please provide the use case with the details how it is different ?
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Mahesh9100
Occasional Contributor
4 years ago

Thanks Rao for the reply. 

I have tried the Environment feature but what it does is change the your base URL and I couldn't find a way to change the test data and assertions based on the selected environment.

 

Use case

There is an API to retrieve person data. I wanted to run the same in Dev, UAT and pre-prod environments. But the databases are different(dev person id- 100 is different with UAT person id- 100(two different persons)). As a result of it , the name I wanted to assert in dev is different with the name in UAT.

Therefore I just wanted to know whether it is feasible to do this with a single Test suite or I need multiple suites for each environment since the databases are different.

 

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      Mahesh9100
      Occasional Contributor
      4 years ago

      Thanks nmrao. I will check both your and richie proposed solutions.

       

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    nmrao
    Champion Level 3
    4 years ago
    Thank you for the details.

    Regarding data difference on different environments, have a follow up question.
    Isn't that you create data, then query it? If you do so, then the same suite can be used with same assertions.

    Also understand that it may not be allowed or not possible to create or update while data can be queried. Is it your use case?

    Still there is possibility to use single suite. Here I can think of data (including request/response along with data to be verified) separation into different data files per environment. Use a property for the data file name, read that data and used these values for sending request and in the assertions as well.