🟦 Module 1: Introduction to API Testing

• What is an API?

• Types of APIs: REST, SOAP, GraphQL

• Importance of API Testing in SDLC

• Manual vs Automation in API Testing

• Understanding JSON, XML, and HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE)

🟦 Module 2: Rest Assured Basics

• Introduction to Rest Assured Library

• Setting up Maven Project in IntelliJ/Eclipse

• Rest Assured dependencies in Maven

• Writing the first API test with Rest Assured

• Understanding BDD-style syntax

🟦 Module 3: Request and Response Handling

• Sending GET, POST, PUT, DELETE requests

• Handling Path, Query, and Header parameters

• Request body handling (JSON, XML)

• Extracting and validating response data

• Logging requests and responses

🟦 Module 4: Validations & Assertions

• Validating status codes, headers, and response body

• JSON Path & XML Path usage

• Response time validation

• Schema validation (JSON & XML schemas)

🟦 Module 5: Advanced Rest Assured

• Authentication methods: Basic Auth, OAuth2, API Keys, JWT

• Chaining multiple API requests

• File upload & download testing

• Data-driven testing with TestNG & Excel/CSV

• Reusable utility methods for APIs

🟦 Module 6: Framework Design with Rest Assured

• Designing a scalable Rest Assured automation framework

• Page Object Model (POM) approach for APIs

• Properties/config file handling

• Logger & reporting (Extent Reports / Allure)

• Best practices in framework development

🟦 Module 7: CI/CD Integration

• Running API tests in Jenkins pipeline

• Integration with GitHub/GitLab

• API automation in DevOps pipelines

• Reporting test execution results in CI/CD

🟦 Module 8: Real-Time Project

• Building end-to-end API automation for a sample application

• Writing reusable test suites for login, user management, and order APIs

• Generating HTML reports

• Debugging and maintaining test suites