restest - the Swiss Army knife for testing REST endpoints in Python
summary
Introduces restest, a Python tool that provides Postman-like capabilities for testing REST endpoints from the command line, usable in scripts and CI/CD pipelines. Describes its features for API testing, debugging and automation of REST endpoint checks using Python.
AI-written summary · about
chapters (21)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:30Why Restest was created
- 2:34Basic Restest example
- 5:25Key features
- 7:15System object config
- 9:44Request Action deep dive
- 12:35Testing response data
- 15:03Saving response fields
- 16:04Multiple files inclusion
- 16:48Batch definitions
- 17:32Live demo
- 20:26Log file analysis
- 21:30CSV export
- 22:11Q&A
- 22:32Advantages over curl
- 23:34Folder inclusion
- 24:20Regex testing
- 25:43Conditional flow
- 27:09CI/CD integration
- 28:53Project integration
- 29:37Parallel calls limits
