FREE UFT API TRAINING
About a month ago I gave a webinar for the VIVIT HP UFT group on The Basics of API testing Using HP's Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
Since then I've received a few emails asking me to rerecord the webinar because of the bad quality of the VIVIT recording. You asked for it — here it is. I broke the webinar down into two videos.
Why API testing is so important
In this video I basically cover what I went over in my previous blog post, The GUI is no longer king – Why API Testing is so important.
The Basics of API Testing using HP's UFT API In this video I gave a hands-on demo on using UFT API for:
- How to test a Web Service
- How to data drive a test
- How to pass data between UFT API activities
- How to create a checkpoint
- How to create custom code
- How to test a rest service
More UFT API Automation Awesomeness
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I recently updated the UFT API Testing Manifesto to include more examples plus three new chapters.
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Hi,
I completely agree that API testing is the way forward and so bought your book in order to try and learn it. The links I am missing and have not yet grasped properly are; 1)Are we able to test any application that has a web interface using API or will it need an API written for it by the developers? 2)Is this true for Rest Services also? 3)The bit I am most interested in at the moment is interfacing with Java applications. I haven’t managed to find anyone who doesn’t just skip over this or just passes the buck by stating that one should read various books on Java. Again, does an API have to be written by the developers to support API testing or is there a way to hook in, e.g. as if we are using “Object” from within UFT GUI?
Hi Nick – typically developers would have to create the API functionality (web service or REST service) for the application you are testing. So its just like the QTP/UFT Object method in that it only exposes functionality that a developer has already created. Can you give me an example what type of Java interfacing you are looking for?
Hi Joe,
Wonderful book, website & videos. I have been consuming your web information for about 2 months now and wanted to know if their are free web service URLs (of various levels of difficulties) that can be used to further my continued efforts to switch from GUI to WebServices Automation.
Thanks in Advance
Thanks! Is this for REST or web services? The only free web services that I could think of are in the book. I think webservices are not as popular any more as most companies are developing more rest services
Hi,
I recently bought your book on Amazon as I required knowledge from someone who know this tool in detail like you. I have one questions sir. I was using SOAP UI before for testing web services. If I have to import any of the existing service from soap UI to UFT, is it possible? because I don’t want to spend time updating the grid with all the required details as it will be so much time consuming. I want to use details which are already there in SOAP UI for respective nods.
Hi Vikramjeet – Have you tried that soapUI conversion tool under the HP menu? I’m away from training all week do I don’t have access to my HP machine but I will be able to take a look next week.
Hi, can u explain how to use VIRTUALIZED SERVICES SETTING” in TOOL BAR in api testing in UFT
Scenario: how to run multiple QTP scripts from QC on different machines, say for example 100 script in QC test lab, to run on 5 machines, each machine having 20 scripts, while running all at a time from QC, if one of the machine’s h/w got crashed, so those scripts should automatically distribute or run on any available machine.
any idea plz?
Hi joe ,
Can you please share the code to connect to Alm using Rest Api to update Test Results in Test Lab