Welcome to the Smokex documentation

Here you can find a collection of example code goodies to create your workflows

Overview

Smokex overview

Smokex provide a quick and easy way to create and automate HTTP requests to create smoke tests. These smoke tests can be used to validate deployment of a release, uptime, etc...

Main concepts

A workflow is a YAML content that defines a set of configured requests. Those requests will be executed either manually or automatically using a cron sentence.

A workflow supports asserting data from the responses of the requests and storing information in variables for further use.

Each execution sends the requests of a workflow and asserts the response using the defined specs.

It is possible to save data from a response into variables and reuse it on other requests. This is handy if you want to call an authentication endpoint and use the session token in subsequent requests.

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Examples

HTTP requests

To make an HTTP request, just specify any valid HTTP method and a target host.

Simple request

- get:
    host: "https://smokex.io"

Headers

- get:
    host: "https://smokex.io"
    headers:
      content-type: "application/json"

Query params

- get:
    host: "https://smokex.io"
    query:
      search: "my-query-search"
      filter: "all"

Adding a request body

- post:
    host: "https://smokex.io"
    body:
      name: "Michael"
      last-name: "Jordan"
      number: 23

Request options

The following request options are available:
  • The timeout of a step to receive a response, in milliseconds. Defaults to 5000.
  • Number of request retries, in case of connection failures (timeouts, connection closed, etc...) until the timeout limit. Defaults to 0.
  • Whether follow redirections from a server response. The expectations will be made against the final response. Defaults to false.

Set a request timeout

- get:
    host: "https://smokex.io"
    options:
      timeout: 2000

Retry a failed request connection

- get:
    host: "https://smokex.io"
    options:
      retries: 5

Follow server redirections

- get:
    host: "http://smokex.io"
    options:
      follow_redirects: true

Expects

By default all request will match by default a HTTP/200 response code, but more assertions can be defined.

Status code

- post:
    host: "https://smokex.io"
    body:
      name: "Michael"
      last-name: "Jordan"
      number: 23
    expect:
      status_code: 200

Headers

- post:
    host: "https://smokex.io"
    body:
      name: "Michael"
      last-name: "Jordan"
      number: 23
    expect:
      headers:
        content-type: "application/json"

Response body as JSON

Expect the body response to be a valid JSON and contain the given structure. 
- get:
    host: "https://smokex.io"
    query:
      id: 23
    expect:
      json:
        available: true
        status: "healthy"
        stats:
          points: 734
          rebounds: 458

Response body as string

Expect the body response to be a string and contain the given text. 
- get:
    host: "https://smokex.io"
    query:
      id: 23
    expect:
      string: "{ \"available\": true, \"status\": \"healthy\", \"stats\": { \"points\": 723, \"rebounds\": 458 } }"

Response body HTML

Expect the body response to be a valid HTML and equal the given CSS paths and its expected text. 
- get:
    host: "https://smokex.io"
    query:
      id: 23
    expect:
      html:
        - path: "a.button:nth-child(2)"
          equal: "Sign up"
        - path: "ul.is-size-7:nth-child(2) > li:nth-child(5) > a:nth-child(1)"
          equal: "Blog"

Variables

You can reuse data from a response by creating variables that can be used in further tests. To do so, define a variable name and a JSON path where retrieve the data from.

Save data from response

- post:
    host: "https://smokex.io"
    body:
      name: "Michael"
      last-name: "Jordan"
      number: 23
    save_from_response:
      - variable_name: "current_points"
        json_path: "stats.points"

  - put:
    host: "https://smokex.io/players/23"
    body:
      points: ${current_points}