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API testing

Delete a resource and verify

Medium70 pts~25 min
  • HTTP DELETE
  • Verification
Practice app · Acme REST API

A live REST + GraphQL API with auth, validation, pagination, rate limiting and an interactive request console.

BASE_URL
/api/practice
Console app
/lab/api-testing-delete-a-resource-and-verify

Your starter code already declares BASE_URL — call the API relative to it.

Objective

Delete a user you created and verify it is really gone.

Your task

  1. 1Create a user and capture its id.
  2. 2DELETE BASE_URL + "/users/{id}" and assert 204.
  3. 3GET the same id and assert 404 with error.code USER_NOT_FOUND.

Acceptance criteria

  • POST /users returns 201
  • DELETE /users/{id} returns 204
  • The follow-up GET returns 404
  • At least 2 assertions pass

Constraints

  • Use a unique email per run, e.g. qa.<timestamp>@example.test — emails must not already exist (409 EMAIL_TAKEN).
  • The practice API is shared in-memory state: only modify users you created yourself.

Fixtures

apiKey
tqa_live_key_123
basicUser
admin
basicPassword
secret
username
qa@target.dev
password
Test@123

API testing · API Testing · Requests & methods