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How to test REST APIs for IBM Systems Director using Java

Automated REST API testing for IBM Systems Director

Piyush Jain (piyushjain@in.ibm.com), Staff Software engineer, IBM

Piyush Jain is a Staff Software Engineer at IBM currently working on VMControl under IBM Systems Director, a critical product in IBM's product portfolio. He has an overall experience of 5 years and holds a bachelor's degree in Information Technology Engineering from IET Alwar, Rajasthan India. You can contact him at piyushjain@in.ibm.com

Prashant Pareek (prashant.pareek@in.ibm.com), Staff Software engineer, IBM

Prashant Pareek is a Staff Software Engineer at IBM currently working on VMControl under IBM Systems Director, a critical product in IBM's product portfolio. He has an overall experience of 7.5 years and holds a bachelor's degree in Information Technology Engineering from VTU, Karnataka, India. You can contact him at prashant.pareek@in.ibm.com

Summary: IBM Systems Director is a platform management solution that is used to manage physical and virtual systems in a multi-system environment. It supports various virtualization technologies and multiple operating systems across IBM and non-IBM platforms. This tutorial explains basic steps, tips and tricks to automate REST API testing for IBM Systems Director using Java™ code.

Date: 07 May 2012
Level: Intermediate
PDF: A4 and Letter (571 KB | 22 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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Before you start

Learn what to expect from this tutorial, and how to get the most out of it.

About this tutorial

IBM Systems Director supports three types of interfaces: graphical user interface (GUI), command line interface (CLI) and application programming interface (API) using RESTFul webservices. This tutorial focuses on testing ISD REST APIs. REST stands for Representational State Transfer. The REST-style architectures consist of clients and servers. There is already a lot of information available on the internet for REST APIs, but this tutorial aims specifically at REST API testing for IBM System Director and provides tips and tricks for troubleshooting based on real-time hands-on experience.

Objectives

The main objective of this tutorial is to help developers and testers working on IBM Systems Director to automate the REST API testing using Java.

Prerequisites

You should have IBM Systems Director V6.x.x installed on your system before proceeding. This tutorial assumes that you are familiar with using IBM Systems Director. It also assumes that you have a reasonable understanding of REST API, Java, Eclipse IDE and JUnit.

System requirements

You should have the following components on your system: