Test Rest API's using Mocha Chai and Chai-http (supertest)

This demo project is to showcase how one can use Mocha Chai and Chai-http to test Rest Api's. It also has chai-json-schema to validate json schema's this includes Swagger and open-api3 specifications.

Prerequisite

Nodejs 10 or later.

Getting Started

• Clone or Download the repo

  git clone https://github.com/rupeshmore/mocha-chai-rest-api-tests

Download mocha-chai-rest-api-tests

Install dependencies

Once the project is cloned or downloaded, go to the project folder and run

npm install

To run sample tests

npm test

Adding new tests

Start writing the test inside the test folder and change the configuration in config.js as per your project needs.

Environment variable

Define environment variable env to test against your desired test environment. The default environment is dev.

Validate Swagger / OpenAPI3 specifications in the test files.

To validate the API's response against schema validations, use the json-schema library. The test files demonstrate how to use them.

Mocha configuration

To change mocha configuration, edit the .mocharc.js file.