API Testing with Ready API E-Learning Training

The API Testing with ReadyAPI Training provides a comprehensive learning experience for professionals who want to design, automate, and scale API testing processes.

You will start with the fundamentals, learning how to navigate the ReadyAPI interface, build test cases, and apply assertions and data-driven techniques. As you progress, you will explore advanced test design, error handling, and environment management.

The training teaches you how to implement CI/CD integration and test automation, enabling efficient and scalable testing workflows. You will also learn how to apply data-driven testing strategies and authentication management to build reusable and robust test frameworks.

Advanced topics include:

• API mocking and virtualization
• Security scanning and vulnerability detection
• Performance testing with LoadUI
• Enterprise-level reporting and analytics

This course prepares you to handle complex API testing challenges in modern DevOps environments.

What You Will Learn

✔️ API testing fundamentals with ReadyAPI
✔️ Design and automate test cases
✔️ Implement data-driven testing
✔️ Integrate CI/CD pipelines
✔️ Manage authentication and environments
✔️ Perform security and performance testing
✔️ Build automated testing workflows
✔️ Generate enterprise-level reports

This LearningKit with more than 14 hours of learning is divided into three tracks:

Course Outcome

Track 1: API Testing Fundamentals with ReadyAPI

• Introduction to ReadyAPI and interface navigation
• Creating projects and basic test cases
• Working with request parameters
• Testing HTTP methods, forms, and attachments
• Using properties for dynamic data
• Building chained end-to-end workflows
• Assertions and Smart Assertions

Courses:

ReadyAPI Foundations: Getting Started with ReadyAPI

Course: 1 Hour, 31 Minutes

• Course Overview
• ReadyAPI
• ReadyAPI Modules
• ReadyAPI Test Module Components
• Supported Protocols in ReadyAPI
• The ReadyAPI Project Hierarchy
• API Definitions
• REST API Testing with ReadyAPI
• Exploring System Requirements and License Details
• Installing and Setting Up ReadyAPI
• Creating the First Project
• Creating an API Definition
• Running the First Test Step
• Course Summary

ReadyAPI Foundations: Working with Request Parameters

Course: 1 Hour, 34 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Executing Multiple Tests
• Running a Test Suite and Saving Project Files
• Request Parameters in ReadyAPI
• Using the Endpoint Explorer to Add API Definition and Test Case
• Adding Query Parameters for APIs
• Setting Up Multiple Query Parameters
• Configuring Path Variables and Dynamic Assertions
• Implementing Parameter Levels and Valid Value Lists
• Configuring Headers in Requests
• Accessing the Redirect Response in APIs
• Validating Headers Using Assertions
• Course Summary

ReadyAPI Foundations: Testing HTTP Methods, Forms, and Attachments

Course: 1 Hour, 23 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Importing an API Definition
• Analyzing an API Definition
• Testing GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE API Methods
• Running a Test Case and Using the Delay Test Step
• Defining an API with a Form Request Body
• Configuring Multi-Value Fields
• Importing API Definitions Using URLs and Understanding File Uploads
• Including Attachments in Test Cases
• Course Summary

ReadyAPI Foundations: Configuring and Using Properties

Course: 1 Hour, 12 Minutes

• Course Overview
• ReadyAPI Properties
• Setting Up a Locally Running API Server
• Testing a Local Server
• Importing API Definitions from a File
• Accessing and Configuring Global Properties in Tests
• Configuring Project Properties
• Configuring Test Suite Properties with Dynamic Assertions for Test Cases
• Overriding Local Properties with Global Properties
• Course Summary

ReadyAPI Foundations: Creating Chained End-to-End Testing Workflows

Course: 1 Hour, 9 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Setting Up a Basic Structure of an End-to-End Workflow
• Configuring Test Steps for Chaining
• Creating, Updating, and Deleting Bugs in Chained Tests
• Cloning Test Cases
• Using Property Transfers to Chain Steps
• Transferring Properties from Response to Test Case
• Generating Random Values in Property Expansions Using Groovy Scripts
• Executing the Run Test Case Test Step
• Course Summary

ReadyAPI Foundations: Assertions and Smart Assertions

Course: 1 Hour, 25 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Assertions in ReadyAPI
• Using Discover API to Set Up API Definitions
• Leveraging Assertions for Compliance Status and Standards
• Implementing Property Content Assertions for Contains and Not Contains
• Utilizing JSONPath Expressions in Assertions
• Using Message Content Assertions
• Utilizing Script Assertions
• Leveraging Smart Assertions
• Implementing Dynamic Property Expansions in Script Assertions
• Course Summary

Track 2: API Testing Essentials with ReadyAPI

• Advanced test step configurations
• Structuring reusable test cases
• Data-driven testing strategies
• Reporting and analytics
• Authentication and credential management
• Environment management (dev/test/prod)

Functional Testing with ReadyAPI: Advanced Test Step Configurations

Course: 1 Hour, 25 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Setting Up Tests for the Bug API Server
• Adding the Assertion Test Step
• Set Up a Reusable Test Case
• Configure the Run Test Case Test Step
• Using the Groovy Script Test Step for Custom Validations
• Configuring a Flaky Create Bug Endpoint
• Using Conditional GoTo with Multiple Conditions
• Setting Up Multiple Conditional Flows in a Test Case
• Implementing Groovy Scripts for Conditional Branching
• Using Groovy Scripts for Looping
• Course Summary

Functional Testing with ReadyAPI: Data-Driven Testing and Reporting

Course: 1 Hour, 47 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Data-Driven Testing
• The Data Source and Data Source Loop Test Steps
• Using Generated Data for Data-Driven Tests
• Generating JSON Payload Data
• Using Text Files for Data-Driven Testing
• Using CSV Files for Data-Driven Testing
• Using Excel Files for Data-Driven Testing
• Configuring a Groovy Script Data Source
• Writing Out Test Data to a Data Sink
• Generating and Interpreting PDF Reports in ReadyAPI
• Including Test Coverage in Reports
• Generating JUnit, Data Automation, and Allure Reports
• Course Summary

Functional Testing with ReadyAPI: Authentication and Environments

Course: 57 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Authentication in ReadyAPI
• Implementing Authentication for the Bugs API Server
• Configuring Authorization for Individual Test Steps
• Implementing Auth Profiles and Auth Inheritance
• Configuring and Using Environments for Testing
• Running Tests on the Command Line Using TestRunner
• Course Summary

Track 3: Advanced API Testing Techniques with ReadyAPI

Learn enterprise-level API testing and automation:

• Integration with Git for version control and collaboration
• Working with composite projects
• Security scans and vulnerability analysis
• Performance testing with LoadUI
• Load testing, scenarios, and metrics
• API mocking and virtualization
• CI/CD integration and automated pipelines
• Enterprise reporting and dashboards

Result: You are ready to execute complex enterprise-level API testing projects.

Courses:

Advanced Topics in ReadyAPI: Integrating with Git

Course: 55 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Version Control with Git
• Git Branching and Merging
• Configuring a Project for Git Integration
• Committing Initial Changes Locally and Pushing to GitHub
• Making Changes Locally and Pushing Updates to GitHub
• Cloning a Project and Making Changes as a Collaborator
• Dealing with Merge Conflicts
• Course Summary

Advanced Topics in ReadyAPI: Security and Performance Testing

Course: 1 Hour, 30 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Security Testing in ReadyAPI
• Setting Up a Security Test
• Running Security Tests for a Single Request
• Running Security Tests for a Test Case
• API Performance Testing
• ReadyAPI Performance Testing
• Setting Up a Load Test
• Running Load Tests
• Running Performance Tests for a Test Case
• Configuring Different Load Profiles
• Loading Allocation Modes, Scheduling, and Using Prebuilt Templates
• Course Summary

What You Will Learn

• Automate API testing with ReadyAPI
• Integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Execute multi-environment testing
• Perform security and performance testing
• Build scalable test frameworks
• Optimize testing in DevOps environments

Assessment:
    •  Final Exam: API Testing with ReadyAPI