API Testing Project

Project Week Overview

This is a 5-day collaborative project where QAs will work in groups of 4 to simulate a real-world software development environment. Teams will follow Scrum methodology, adopting its key ceremonies to reflect agile workflows.

Scrum Meetings

• Sprint Planning
  Duration: 2 hours (Day 1)
  Objective: Understand project requirements, analyze scope, and assign tasks.

• Daily Scrum
  Duration: 10 minutes daily
  Objective: Share progress, upcoming tasks, and blockers.

• Sprint Review
  Duration: 1 hour (Day 5)
  Objective: Present work, discuss challenges, and gather peer feedback.

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Weekly Timeline

Day	Stage	Goals & Deliverables
Day 1	Learn about Requirements → Analysis	- Document explaining how each API is triggered from the UI - Trello board setup with tasks - Postman workspace created and shared - List of questions or ambiguities
Day 2	Design	Design positive and negative test cases for each API using Excel
Day 3	Implementation (Create API requests and environment variables)	Create a Postman collection with organized folders and requests covering all test cases
Day 4	Implementation (Create assertions for each request)	Add assertions for each request and run the collection to ensure zero failures
Day 5	Presentation	20-minute team presentation covering all deliverables

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Application Under Test

• App: Contact List App
• API Documentation: Contact List Documentation

Team Assignments

• Team 1: Focus on Contacts APIs
• Team 2: Focus on Users APIs

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Tools Used

• Trello
• Postman
• Microsoft Excel
• GitHub

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Guidelines

• Create a new Postman workspace and invite all team members.
• Set up a new Trello board:
  • Create a card for each API
  • Assign tasks clearly
• Ensure Postman Collection:
  • Is well-structured and organized
  • Includes requests for all relevant API endpoints
  • Contains tests in the "Tests" tab (JavaScript assertions) (Scripts)
  • Use environment variables throughout the collection (e.g., base URLs, tokens)
• Deploy the work on GitHub

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Tips

• Positive Test Case:
  Example: Send a POST request with all required fields in the JSON body.

• Negative Test Case:
  Example: Send a POST request with missing required fields and verify the proper error response.

• Explore the UI of the app to identify and cover more relevant test scenarios. [Verify Mapping between GUI and API]