Installing Behat-Rest

The easiest way to install Behat is by using Composer:

$> curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$> php composer.phar require --dev hola/behat-rest

Configuration Behat-Rest

Create directory called "features" in root directory, into features directory create file "behat.yml" contains configuration:

default:
  suites:
    default:
      contexts:
        - Hola\Behat\WebApiContext:
          - https://url.api.to.test/uri/
      paths:
        - %paths.base%

Always end url with /

News Features

Create new features into features folder and execute with behat:

vendor/bin/behat -c features/behat.yml features/

Sample Feature

Feature: Testing sample REST services In order to maintain user information through the services as a service user I want to see if the services work as expected

Scenario: Creating a New Employee
    When I send a POST request to "/employee" with values:
        | employeeId | 007         |
        | name       | James Bond  |
        | age        | 27          |
    Then response code should be 200
        And the response should be "true"

Scenario: Finding an Existing Employee
    When I send a GET request to "/employee/007"
    Then response code should be 200
        And the response should contain json:
        """"
        {
            "name": "James Bond",
            "age": "27"
        }
        """"
    And in the response there is no field called "gender"

Scenario: Updating an Existing Employee
    When I send a PUT request to "/employee/007" with values:
        | age | 38 |
    Then response code should be 200
        And the response should be "true"

Scenario: Deleting Existing and Non-existing Employees
    Given I send a DELETE request to "/employee/007"
    Then response code should be 200
        And the response should be "true"
    Given I send a DELETE request to "/employee/008"
    Then response code should be 400
        And the response should contain "Unable to delete because the employee does not exist."