Welcome

Step CI is an open-source tool, which makes testing and monitoring APIs simple

Quick overview:

• Language-agnostic. Flexible, declarative configuration language
• REST, GraphQL, XML
• Integrated. Works seamlessly with Node, Docker and GitHub Actions

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Get started

Using Node

Install the CLI

npm install -g stepci

Create example workflow (tests/workflow.yml)

version: "1.0"
name: Status Check
env:
  host: example.com
tests:
  example:
    steps:
      - name: GET request
        url: https://{{env.host}}
        method: GET
        check:
          status: /^20/

Run the workflow

stepci run tests/workflow.yml

Using Docker

Create example workflow (tests/workflow.yml)

version: "1.0"
name: Status Check
env:
  host: example.com
tests:
  example:
    steps:
      - name: GET request
        url: https://{{env.host}}
        method: GET
        check:
          status: /^20/

Run the Docker image

docker run -v "$(pwd)"/tests:/tests ghcr.io/stepci/stepci tests/workflow.yml

Using GitHub Actions

Create example workflow (tests/workflow.yml)

version: "1.0"
name: Status Check
env:
  host: example.com
tests:
  example:
    steps:
      - name: GET request
        url: https://{{env.host}}
        method: GET
        check:
          status: /^20/

Add Step CI GitHub Action (./github/workflows/stepci.yml)

on: [push]
jobs:
  api_test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: API Tests
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Step CI Action
        uses: stepci/stepci@main
        with:
          workflow: "tests/workflow.yml"

Documentation

Documentation is accessible under docs/

Example tests

You can find a collection of Step CI example tests under examples/

• Status Check
• Validating XML
• Validating JSON
• JSON Schema
• Validating HTML
• Validating Bytes
• Performance
• SSL Certificates
• Captures
• Graph QL
• Soap API
• Form Submission
• File Uploads
• Basic Auth
• Cookies
• Conditions
• Using Matchers

Status Check

version: "1.0"
name: Status Check
env:
  host: example.com
tests:
  example:
    steps:
      - name: GET request
        url: https://{{env.host}}
        method: GET
        check:
          status: /^20/

Validating XML

version: "1.0"
name: Validating XML
tests:
  example:
    steps:
      - name: GET request
        url: https://api-campaign-us-1.goacoustic.com/XMLAPI
        method: GET
        check:
          xpath:
            //SUCCESS: "false"

Validating JSON

version: "1.0"
name: Validating JSON
tests:
  example:
    steps:
      - name: GET request
        url: https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1
        method: GET
        check:
          jsonpath:
            $.id: 1

JSON Schema

version: "1.0"
name: JSON Schema
tests:
  example:
    steps:
      - name: GET request
        url: https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1
        method: GET
        check:
          jsonschema:
            type: object
            properties:
              userId:
                type: integer
                required: true
              id:
                type: integer
                required: true
              title:
                type: string
                required: true
              body:
                type: string
                required: true

Validating HTML

version: "1.0"
name: Validating HTML
tests:
  example:
    steps:
      - name: GET request
        url: https://example.com
        method: GET
        check:
          selector:
            title: Example Domain

Validating Bytes

version: "1.0"
name: Validating Bytes
tests:
  example:
    steps:
      - name: Image
        url: https://httpbin.org/image
        headers:
          accept: image/webp
        method: GET
        check:
          sha256: 567cfaf94ebaf279cea4eb0bc05c4655021fb4ee004aca52c096709d3ba87a63

Performance

version: "1.0"
name: Performance
tests:
  example:
    steps:
      - name: GET Request
        url: https://example.com
        method: GET
        check:
          performance:
            firstByte:
              - lte: 200
            total:
              - lte: 500

SSL Certificates

version: "1.0"
name: SSL Certificates
tests:
  example:
    steps:
      - name: GET Request
        method: GET
        url: https://example.com
        check:
          ssl:
            valid: true
            signed: true
            daysUntilExpiration:
              - gte: 60

Captures

version: "1.0"
name: Captures
env:
  host: jsonplaceholder.typicode.com
  resource: posts
tests:
  example:
    steps:
      - name: Post the post
        url: https://{{env.host}}/{{env.resource}}
        method: POST
        headers:
          Content-Type: application/json
        json:
          title: Hello Step CI!
          body: This is the body
          userId: 1
        captures:
          id:
            jsonpath: $.id
        check:
          status: 201
          captures:
            id: 101
      - name: Get post by id
        url: https://{{env.host}}/{{env.resource}}/{{captures.id}}
        method: GET
        headers:
          Content-Type: application/json
        check:
          status: 404
          headers:
            Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
          body: "{}"

Graph QL

version: "1.0"
name: GraphQL
tests:
  example:
    steps:
      - name: Request
        url: https://echo.hoppscotch.io/graphql
        method: POST
        headers:
          Content-Type: application/json
        graphql:
          query: |
            query Request {
              method
              url
              headers {
                key
                value
              }
            }
          variables:
            id: 1
        check:
          status: 200
          jsonpath:
            $.data.method: POST

Soap API

version: "1.0"
name: SOAP API
tests:
  example:
    steps:
      - name: POST request
        url: https://www.dataaccess.com/webservicesserver/NumberConversion.wso
        method: POST
        headers:
          Content-Type: text/xml
          SOAPAction: "#POST"
        body: >
          <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
          <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
            <soap:Body>
              <NumberToWords xmlns="http://www.dataaccess.com/webservicesserver/">
                <ubiNum>500</ubiNum>
              </NumberToWords>
            </soap:Body>
          </soap:Envelope>
        check:
          status: 200
          selector:
            m\:numbertowordsresult: "five hundred "

Form Submission

version: "1.0"
name: Form Submission
tests:
  example:
    steps:
      - name: Submit a form
        url: https://httpbin.org/post
        method: POST
        formData:
          email: [email protected]
          logo:
            file: README.md
        check:
          status: 200

File Uploads

version: "1.0"
name: File Uploads
tests:
  example:
    steps:
      - name: Upload
        url: https://httpbin.org/post
        method: POST
        body:
          file: README.md
        check:
          status: 200

Basic Auth

version: "1.0"
name: Basic Auth
tests:
  example:
    steps:
      - name: Basic Auth
        url: https://httpbin.org/basic-auth/hello/world
        method: GET
        auth:
          basic:
            username: hello
            password: world
        check:
          status: 200

Cookies

version: "1.0"
name: Cookies
tests:
  example:
    steps:
      - name: Cookies
        url: https://httpbin.org/cookies
        method: GET
        cookies:
          wows: world
        check:
          status: 200
          cookies:
            wows: world

Conditions

version: "1.0"
name: Conditions
tests:
  example:
    steps:
      - name: GET request
        url: https://example.com
        method: GET
        check:
          status: 200
        captures:
          title:
            selector: title
      - if: captures.title != "Example Domain"
        name: GET request
        url: https://example.com
        method: GET
        check:
          status: 200

Using Matchers

version: "1.0"
name: Using Matchers
tests:
  example:
    steps:
      - name: GET request
        url: https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1
        method: GET
        check:
          jsonpath:
            $.id:
              - eq: 1
              - isNumber: true

Privacy

By default, the CLI collects anonymous usage data, which includes:

• Unique user ID
• OS Name
• Node Version
• CLI Version
• Environment (Local, Docker, CI/CD)

The usage analytics can be disabled by adding STEPCI_DISABLE_ANALYTICS to your env variables

License

Step CI is distributed under Mozilla Public License terms