--- name: automating-api-testing-75c776903c44 description: | This skill automates API endpoint testing, including request generation, validation, and comprehensive test coverage for REST and GraphQL APIs. It is used when the user requests API testing, contract testing, or validation against OpenAPI specifications. The skill analyzes API endpoints and generates test suites covering CRUD operations, authentication flows, and security aspects. It also validates response status codes, headers, and body structure. Use this skill when the user mentions "API testing", "REST API tests", "GraphQL API tests", "contract tests", or "OpenAPI validation". allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Bash version: 1.0.0 --- ## Overview This skill empowers Claude to automatically generate and execute comprehensive API tests for REST and GraphQL endpoints. It ensures thorough validation, covers various authentication methods, and performs contract testing against OpenAPI specifications. ## How It Works 1. **Analyze API Definition**: The skill parses the provided API definition (e.g., OpenAPI/Swagger file, code files) or infers it from usage. 2. **Generate Test Cases**: Based on the API definition, it creates test cases covering different scenarios, including CRUD operations, authentication, and error handling. 3. **Execute Tests and Validate Responses**: The skill executes the generated tests and validates the responses against expected status codes, headers, and body structures. ## When to Use This Skill This skill activates when you need to: - Generate comprehensive API tests for REST endpoints. - Create GraphQL API tests covering queries, mutations, and subscriptions. - Validate API contracts against OpenAPI/Swagger specifications. - Test API authentication flows, including login, refresh, and protected endpoints. ## Examples ### Example 1: Generating REST API Tests User request: "Generate API tests for the user management endpoints in src/routes/users.js" The skill will: 1. Analyze the user management endpoints in the specified file. 2. Generate a test suite covering CRUD operations (create, read, update, delete) for user resources. ### Example 2: Creating GraphQL API Tests User request: "Create GraphQL API tests for the product queries and mutations" The skill will: 1. Analyze the product queries and mutations in the GraphQL schema. 2. Generate tests to verify the functionality and data integrity of these operations. ## Best Practices - **API Definition**: Provide a clear and accurate API definition (e.g., OpenAPI/Swagger file) for optimal test generation. - **Authentication Details**: Specify the authentication method and credentials required to access the API endpoints. - **Contextual Information**: Provide context about the API's purpose and usage to guide the test generation process. ## Integration This skill can integrate with other plugins to retrieve API definitions from various sources, such as code repositories or API gateways. It can also be combined with reporting tools to generate detailed test reports and dashboards. --- Source attribution: BbgnsurfTech Original project: https://github.com/BbgnsurfTech/claude-skills-collection/blob/01d3fafeca1133f841956b8b90b939fee92d71e7/plugins/claude-code-plugins-plus/backups/skill-structure-cleanup-20251108-073936/plugins/testing/api-test-automation/skills/api-test-automation/SKILL.md License: MIT License information: https://opensource.org/license/mit Original upstream instructions; downloaded from Mega AI Hub. ## Upstream license notice MIT License Copyright (c) 2025 Claude Code Plugins Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. # Mega AI Hub resource metadata Creator / publisher: BbgnsurfTech Original project: https://github.com/BbgnsurfTech/claude-skills-collection/blob/01d3fafeca1133f841956b8b90b939fee92d71e7/plugins/claude-code-plugins-plus/backups/skill-structure-cleanup-20251108-073936/plugins/testing/api-test-automation/skills/api-test-automation/SKILL.md Attribution basis: Source repository record Fields of work: Development & Engineering Roles: Backend Developer, DevOps / SRE, QA / Test Engineer Specialties: API, Testing Tools: Openapi, Swagger Country applicability: Country not specified Classification basis: Source catalog labels Instruction SHA-256: eaa321aa73534eb3268c577fc67575c52b239f28c930adeee4ce624e5fd6c707