Webspicy

A description, specification and test framework for web services seen as black box software operations.

Features

• Declarative description of RESTful web-services + their tests

• Framework/language agnostic: Webspicy is written in Ruby, but can be used to test web services in any language / framework.

• Black box testing: Webspicy focuses on web services seen as blackboxes. It has no knowledge of the implementation, and focuses on HTTP and input/output data instead. Investing in such testing makes those tests more stable and your API better.

• Test instrumentation and generation, based on declarative PRE & POST conditions.

• Extra goodness for Rubyists: being written in ruby, Webspicy also supports testing Rack applications directly (through rack/test)

Getting started

Please have a look at the example first. It contains a simple Sinatra application with GET and POST restful services tested with the framework. The Rakefile contains the necessary tasks to run those tests.

Executing the tests using the command line

Please have a look at the examples first. Then:

webspicy --help
webspicy path/to/your/config.rb

Using the docker image

A docker image running your tests is provided. It expects a volume with the tests to run put in /home/app.

docker run enspirit/webspicy -v path/to/tests:/home/app