📚 API Automation Framework – Online Bookstore

This repository contains a professional-grade API automation framework designed for the Online Bookstore system.

Developed by Ata Pourfarivarnezhad, a Software Developer & SDET, this project demonstrates advanced API test automation practices using Java 21, Rest-Assured, and TestNG.
The framework is built with scalability, maintainability, and real-world project standards in mind.

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🚀 CI/CD & Quick Access

This project is fully integrated with GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages for seamless delivery and monitoring.

📊 1. View Live Interactive Report

You can access the real-time execution dashboard without running any code locally.
The report includes:

• Full Request / Response logs
• Detailed execution timelines

👉 View Live Allure Report https://atafarivar.github.io/api-automation-assessment/

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⚙️ 2. Manual Test Execution (GitHub Actions)

You can trigger a fresh test run directly from the GitHub interface:

1. Navigate to the Actions tab
2. Select the API Automation CI workflow
3. Click Run workflow

The pipeline will:

• Build the Docker environment
• Execute all 20 automated tests
• Publish the updated Allure report

Note

Deployment Time: While the tests execute in seconds, GitHub Pages may take 8-10 minutes to process the new Allure data and update the live link. Please monitor the pages-build-deployment job in the Actions tab to confirm when the latest report is live.

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🏗 Project Architecture & Design Patterns

The framework follows a decoupled, modular architecture to ensure long-term maintainability.

📁 Package Structure

• clients
  Abstraction layer for API endpoints (BookClient, AuthorClient)

  • Uses Allure @Step annotations for readable execution logs

• models
  POJOs for Book and Author entities

  • Jackson-based serialization / deserialization

• specs
  Centralized SpecFactory

  • Global headers
  • Base URI
  • Allure request/response filters

• tests
  Organized test suites covering:

  • CRUD operations
  • Performance validation
  • Negative and resilience scenarios

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💎 Technical Decisions

To meet enterprise-grade expectations, the following strategic decisions were implemented:

• Environment Resilience (Constructor vs Builder)
  Although Lombok is used in the project, test data creation intentionally relies on Constructor / Setter patterns.
  This avoids IDE-dependent annotation processing issues and guarantees 100% stability in CI and Docker environments.

• Contract Validation
  Every Happy Path test validates the Content-Type header to ensure strict adherence to the JSON response contract.

• Fail-Fast Debugging
  Client requests include .log().ifValidationFails() to keep console output clean while still providing actionable logs on failure.

• Performance SLA Tracking
  Hamcrest matchers assert that API response times remain within business SLA limits (< 2 seconds).

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🧪 Test Coverage & Scenarios

The framework contains 20 high-impact automated test cases with a 100% pass rate.

📘 Books API (11 Test Cases)

Happy Path

• Full CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete)

Performance

• Response time verification for global books list

Negative & Edge Scenarios

• Mass deletion protection (DELETE on base URL forbidden)
• Boundary validation for ID 0 → 404 Not Found
• Payload validation for empty title values

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✍️ Authors API (9 Test Cases)

Business Logic

• Comprehensive CRUD coverage for author entities

Performance

• SLA monitoring for author data retrieval

Edge Cases

• Non-existing ID handling (404 Validation)
• Input validation for empty author name fields

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🐳 Docker Execution

The framework is fully containerized to guarantee consistent execution across environments.

1️⃣ Build the Docker Image

docker build -t bookstore-automation-ata .

2️⃣ Run with Automated Cleanup

macOS / Linux

sudo rm -rf allure-results && docker run --rm   -v "$(pwd)/allure-results:/app/target/allure-results"   bookstore-automation-ata

Windows (CMD / Command Prompt)

rd /s /q allure-results & docker run --rm -v "%cd%/allure-results:/app/target/allure-results" bookstore-automation-ata

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📊 Advanced Reporting

View the report locally using Allure:

allure serve allure-results

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🛠 Tech Stack

• Language: Java 21
• API Library: Rest-Assured 5.5.x
• Test Engine: TestNG 7.x
• Infrastructure: Docker & GitHub Actions

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🎯 Final Notes

This project is intentionally designed to reflect how API automation is built and maintained in real production teams,
not simplified demo examples.