End User Style Testing of asp.net mvc web api

Question

I am using this default project of asp.net web API . Now I want to create a BDD style End User testing .

I want to consume my web API as my real user will do in BDD way using specflow . I searched almost 30 hours on google but didn't find any solution . So need any type of help for this purpose .

Thanks in advance .

Answer 1

There is no special tool for writing Web API BDD tests as simply using HttpClient along with SpecFlow is more than easy. Just create a new instance of HttpClient per test and exercise your API as in:

  HttpClient client = new HttpClient();

  HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync("http://www.contoso.com/api/resource");
  response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
  string responseBody = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

You can always wrap this in a reusable function with URI as the parameter and use it in your BDD descriptions. It's very much up to you on how you go on from here.