FRISBY

Frisby.js is a framework used for testing the REST APIs. It is built on node.js. Furthermore it is a open-source, free tool with a good support for different platforms.

Install Frisby

  1) First download and install node.js

              curl --silent --location https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_5.x | sudo bash -

              sudo apt-get install nodejs

  2) Then install frisby.js using npm(node package manager)

              npm install --save-dev frisby

  3) Install jasmine  too, since it is being used by frisby.js

              npm install -g jasmine-node

Write Tests

•  The first line is the location where frisby module is located on your local machine. 

•  Frisby tests start with frisby.create with a description of the test

• Then comes one of get, post, put, delete, or head

• In the middle comes many  built-in test helpers like expectStatus to easily test HTTP status codes, expectJSON to test expected JSON keys/values, and expectJSONTypes to test JSON value types, among many others

• Ends with toss to generate the resulting jasmine spec test.

 
 

 Sample code is shown below

IMPORTANT

File naming convention is important

• Files must end with spec.js to run with jasmine-node.

• Suggested file naming is to append the filename with _spec, like mytests_spec.js and moretests_spec.js
• write all the frisby tests in /spec/api folder structure

Run Tests

• Go to the parent directory of spec/api folder.

• Enter the following command

                     jasmine-node spec\api\getHostDetails_spec.js
 

• If you have multiple spec file and if you want to run all, then you can run using following command

                      jasmine-node spec/api