🧪 API Automation Testing – StaceySmith Project

This repository contains automated API testing scripts for the StaceySmith application, built and executed using Postman and Newman. All tests are designed to validate backend API stability, data integrity, and workflow consistency using dynamic scripting and environment variables.

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📁 Project Overview

Component	Description
Project Name	StaceySmith
Testing Tool	Postman
Automation Runner	Newman CLI
Report Generator	Newman HTML Extra
CI/CD Integration	GitHub Actions
Assertions Covered	✅ Status code validation ✅ Schema validation ✅ Field verification ✅ Dynamic variable chaining

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⚙️ Environment Setup

1️⃣ Install Dependencies

Make sure you have Node.js installed, then install Newman and the HTML Extra reporter:

npm install -g newman
npm install -g newman-reporter-htmlextra

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🧩 Dynamic Scripts & Chaining

All requests use dynamic scripting for realistic test flows:

• Pre-request Scripts:
  • Random data generation (passwords, slugs, quiz IDs)
  • Variable extraction and reusability
• Tests:
  • Auto-validate success, message, and code fields
  • JSON schema verification
  • Response chaining across dependent APIs

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📊 Newman HTML Extra Report

After execution, an advanced HTML report is generated:

📁 reports/staceySmith-newman-report.html

Report Preview:

Sample Run Summary:

┌─────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
│                         │ executed              │ failed               │
├─────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│ iterations              │ 1                     │ 0                    │
│ requests                │ 64                    │ 0                    │
│ test-scripts            │ 63                    │ 0                    │
│ prerequest-scripts      │ 40                    │ 0                    │
│ assertions              │ 214                   │ 0                    │
├─────────────────────────┴───────────────────────┴──────────────────────┤
│ total run duration: 1m 51.9s                                          │
│ average response time: 1270 ms [min: 138 ms, max: 4.3 s]              │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
✅ Uploaded successfully! View Report on Postman Cloud →

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🧠 QA Best Practices Followed

• Dynamic test data generation
• Automated chaining of request dependencies
• Environment variable isolation
• Zero hardcoded tokens
• Visual HTML reporting
• CI/CD integration with GitHub Actions

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🏁 Summary

Metric	Value
Total Requests	64
Total Assertions	214
Failures	0
Execution Time	1m 51.9s
Average Response Time	1270 ms

✅ All tests passed successfully under automated workflow conditions.

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👨‍💻 Author

Md Abdur Rahaman Tutul
Software Quality Assurance Engineer (FSD – Softvence)
📧 abdurtutul6@gmail.com