Gain insights into performing REST and SOAP API test automation, writing API and integration tests from scratch, and preparing for test automation interviews with a downloadable framework.

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In software development, microservices and APIs are used for writing business logic. API testing has become an important component in the testing cycle, as it can be used to test the functionality, integration flows, load and performance.

In this course, you will learn how to perform REST and SOAP API test automation. This course covers all the required details for you to start writing API and integration tests from scratch. It will also prepare you for test automation interviews.

As part of the course, you will be able to download a sample API automation framework. You can use this for writing automation tests of modules or applications, or just extend and customize it for your own use

Learn REST and SOAP API Test Automation in Java

### What is SOAP?

**`SOAP`** (Simple Object Access Protocol) is an XML-based protocol for accessing web services over HTTP and few other protocols. It has some specifications which can be used across all applications and platforms.

**`SOAP`** follows a strict messaging structure, a set of encoding rules, and a convention for providing rendering requests and responses.

### Advantages

* **`SOAP`** communicates over `HTTP`, `HTTPS`, `TCP`, `SMTP`, `FTP`, `XMPP`, and more, unlike `REST` which communicates over `HTTP` and `HTTPS` only.

* **`SOAP`** can have its own implementation of security SOAP `WS-Security` that allows it to encrypt messages and have authentication data in the message header.

* **`SOAP`** is **ACID**-compliant (_Atomicity_, _Consistency_, _Isolation_, and _Durability_).

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In this lesson, we learned about the SOAP web service and its advantages. In the next lesson, we will learn about the building blocks of SOAP messages and Web Service Definition Language (WSDL). 



# What is SOAP?

**`SOAP`** (Simple Object Access Protocol) is an XML-based protocol for accessing web services over HTTP and few other protocols. It has some specifications which can be used across all applications and platforms.

**`SOAP`** follows a strict messaging structure, a set of encoding rules, and a convention for providing rendering requests and responses.

# Advantages

* **`SOAP`** communicates over `HTTP`, `HTTPS`, `TCP`, `SMTP`, `FTP`, `XMPP`, and more, unlike `REST` which communicates over `HTTP` and `HTTPS` only.

* **`SOAP`** can have its own implementation of security SOAP `WS-Security` that allows it to encrypt messages and have authentication data in the message header.

* **`SOAP`** is **ACID**-compliant (_Atomicity_, _Consistency_, _Isolation_, and _Durability_).

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In this lesson, we learned about the SOAP web service and its advantages. In the next lesson, we will learn about the building blocks of SOAP messages and Web Service Definition Language (WSDL). 



In the lesson, we will learn about the SOAP Web Service.

About API and WebServices

Introduction to HTTP

Introduction to REST API

REST API Automation using Rest Assured

Introduction to SOAP API

SOAP API Automation

Integration Test

Allure Reporting

Manual Testing: REST and SOAP API

Bonus: API Test Automation Framework

Conclusion

About SOAP

What is SOAP?