API Testing with HTTPie

Martin Thoma
Level Up Coding
Published in
6 min readAug 24, 2021

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Example of a HTTP request sent with HTTPie and the received response. Screenshot taken by Martin Thoma.

Testing is a crucial part of software development. It comes in different flavors such as unit testing, stress testing, acceptance testing, smoke testing. “Just giving it a shot” is probably the simplest of them all, but crucial to be convinced that things work as they should.

We often focus on the non-developers as end-users, but in some cases, developers are our end users. On the web, that often means we provide REST…

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