API testing

Test field validation errors

Medium70 pts~25 min
  • Field validation
  • Negative testing
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-test-field-validation-errors

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

Objective

Send several invalid fields at once and assert each one is reported individually.

Your task

  1. 1POST BASE_URL + "/users" with { "name": "", "email": "not-an-email", "role": "owner" }.
  2. 2Assert 400 VALIDATION_ERROR.
  3. 3Assert error.fields has entries for name, email and role.

Acceptance criteria

  • POST /users returns 400
  • At least 3 assertions pass

Fixtures

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

API testing · API Testing · Authorization & negative testing