No-Frills REST API Testing with REST-Assured

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A concise introduction to the REST-Assured Java DSL for component testing REST services, showing real code against a Spring Boot REST service. Covers reusable request/response specs, status-code checks (e.g. 200) with Hamcrest matchers, JSONPath extraction of fields, POSTing JSON that persists to the database, and running integration tests by starting Spring Boot on a random port or by mocking remote services.

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1. 0:00REST API testing intro
2. 2:07REST-Assured simplifies testing
3. 4:57Demo service setup
4. 7:31REST-Assured test structure
5. 10:56Validate response content
6. 13:26Query parameters handling
7. 15:16Status codes & request builders
8. 17:55Post data & validate response
9. 18:58JSON object shortcuts
10. 21:29REST-Assured in Spring Boot
11. 24:07Tests in Spring context
12. 25:54Speaker service integration
13. 27:45Demo results & closing

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