Cypress API Testing 💻

This repository contains a suite of API tests built using Cypress, validating core endpoints of the Conduit API (RealWorld app implementation). It's a practical demonstration of automated back-end testing with clear error handling, response verification, and request interception.

🏆 Highlights

• Clearly separates successful creation from error cases (title must be unique)
• Demonstrates request interception and response modification
• Logs and throws errors when tests detect unexpected API behavior
• Easily extendable for other endpoints (comments, users, tags, favorites)
• Combines API testing with Dockerized environments

🧰 Tech Stack

• Cypress — test runner for API testing using cy.request() and cy.intercept()
• JavaScript (ES6+) syntax
• Docker — for isolated, reproducible test execution

🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js v16+ (with npm)
• Docker (optional but recommended)
• A working clone of this repo

Installation

git clone https://github.com/destrutoyt/Cypress-API-Testing.git
cd Cypress-API-Testing
npm install

🐳 Running with Docker

You can also execute the Cypress tests inside a Docker container for a clean and consistent environment:

Build the Docker image:

docker build -t cypress-api-tests .

Run the tests:

docker run -it cypress-api-tests

This is useful when running tests in CI/CD pipelines or avoiding local environment conflicts.