How do you test the API?

Question

API

I have such API methods as registration with Email confirmation, authorization and account deletion
I sent a POST to /api/v1/signup
I received a response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
{"message": "Registration success!"}

And all? Plug? How can I automate further tests? Or every time, before running the tests, turn off the confirmation?

Answer 1

It all depends on your tasks and goals. You can turn it off, you can redirect letters somewhere and parse them for further tests, or you can go to real mail, check whether a letter has arrived or not ... In general, as much as you want to get confused, do it .. I would make a stub for sending mail, would redirect letters to files and check them.

Answer 2

In my opinion, API integration testing from the outside is the last thing to do. Test the API separately with a unit test by dampening the mail sending service so that it adds the sent letters to the array and the mail service itself separately.