15 Cypress API - biswajitsundara/Cypress GitHub Wiki

Cypress supports API testing as well and it helps greatly in developing end to end tests.

• We can perform the Http CRUD operation
• We can prepare the test data using back end API calls
• Then test the UI using UI automation script

Let's fetch data from the pokemon api using GET call and then validate the response body

describe('sample tests',()=>{

    const apicall = (endPoint,abilitiesCount,statsCount) =>{
        cy.request({
            method: 'GET',
            url: `https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/pokemon/${endPoint}`
        }).then((response)=>{
             console.log(JSON.stringify(response));
             expect(response.body.abilities.length).equals(abilitiesCount);
             expect(response.body.forms[0].name).equals(endPoint);
             expect(response.body.stats.length).equals(statsCount);
        })
    }

    it('pokeman test',()=>{

        apicall("ditto", 2, 6);
        apicall("bulbasaur", 2, 6);
        apicall("ivysaur", 2, 6);
   
    })

})

• Please note, the cy.request() takes an Object in the above example

//correct
cy.request({..});

//incorrect
cy.request(()=>{
})

• TODO: How to retry the API calls?