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Test Automation Engineering Handbook

You're reading from  Test Automation Engineering Handbook

Product type Book
Published in Jan 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804615492
Pages 276 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Manikandan Sambamurthy Manikandan Sambamurthy
Profile icon Manikandan Sambamurthy

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: The Basics
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Test Automation 3. Chapter 2: Test Automation Strategy 4. Chapter 3: Common Tools and Frameworks 5. Part 2: Practical Affairs
6. Chapter 4: Getting Started with the Basics 7. Chapter 5: Test Automation for Web 8. Chapter 6: Test Automation for Mobile 9. Chapter 7: Test Automation for APIs 10. Chapter 8: Test Automation for Performance 11. Part 3: Continuous Learning
12. Chapter 9: CI/CD and Test Automation 13. Chapter 10: Common Issues and Pitfalls 14. Assessments 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A:Mocking API Calls

Intercepting API calls

Cypress lets users work with underlying API requests and stub responses where necessary. Let us analyze the API calls when loading the Packt Publishing home page and try to stub one of the responses. cy.intercept() is the command used to work with API calls, and it offers a wide variety of parameters. For this example, we will be using the routeMatcher and staticResponse arguments. We add a second it block to intercept the underlying API call and specify the type of HTTP call, URL, and a predefined response as parameters, as shown in Figure 5.20:

Figure 5.20 – cy.intercept call

Figure 5.20 – cy.intercept call

The value of the static response parameter can be obtained using the Network tab of the developer tools to get the actual response for the API call. This is illustrated in Figure 5.21. By passing this in as the staticResponse parameter, the GET call on this URL will always return the stubbed response instead of the original:

Figure 5.21 – API payload for stubbing
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