Show HN: Declarative Testing Framework for REST, GraphQL APIs

I wouldn’t really say this is any more “codeless” than HTML, SQL, or Prolog, because you’re stilling writing unit tests, but in YAML instead of an imperative language like JavaScript.

I think the word you’re _really_ looking for is “declarative.”

We attempted to come up with a similar format for Runscope tests (YAML and all) but quickly abandoned it once we tried anything remotely complex (chained requests, control flow, limits of declarative assertions, etc.). YAML quickly becomes far less expressive than code. I still prefer using a UI like Runscope personally, but I’d use code if it weren’t available.

Also, any proper GraphQL support would abstract away the payload format. It should simulate a GraphQL client, not an HTTP client.

Neat library, I can see how this could be beneficial for black-box and end-to-end API tests. Node seems powerful here due to the event loop being able to run many parallel HTTP requests with one thread.

Were there any libraries you considered first before creating this? Or parts of an existing library you took influence from?

This looks like pyresttest.

This is cool but I'd rather not add node and npm as dependencies to my application unless its already there. I think this would be better as a static binary or rolled into a CI platform.