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Automating API endpoint testing with Spin
- Automating API testing helps to increase the quality of the code by ensuring consistency and reducing human error.
- The Spin CLI offers a built-in SQLite database, which is convenient for testing SQLite databases and clients locally, as well as automating API tests.
- By coding an automated solution, automating API tests can document the step-by-step procedure, which is helpful when reviewing the process later or when someone new reviews it.
- Requirements for running API tests on a local Spin application include the latest versions of Spin, TinyGo, and Hurl.
- Hurl is used to automatically test the API endpoints, with syntax that includes verifying the HTTP status code and validating that the response body matches expectations.
- The process to run API tests on a Spin app in Github actions is similar to running tests locally, but requires running the spin up command in the background, executing the tests, and then killing the process.
- Automating API tests helps to catch issues earlier in the development cycle, saves time and resources, and ensures that APIs are always validated before they go live.
- Integrating automated tests into a CI/CD pipeline improves developer experience and can reduce the toil of repetitive tasks.
- Using Hurl and Github actions to automate testing of Spin APIs is an effective approach and the Spin API guide offers more information about other types of integrations.
- Questions or comments can be addressed on the Spin Discord community.
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