Introduction

When a release is built automated tests ensure that the system is behaving as normal. However, before releasing a build it is important to ensure that a human has installed and tested the release. The document describes the minimum that you should do in order to test a build of the rest module ready for release.

You are strongly encouraged to try variations around the themes outlined in this document. The more thorough you test the build, the less likely there will be a significant bug in the release.

Preparation

You must have installed a Servlet engine on your machine, we suggest Jetty or Apache Tomcat. Download the REST api war and drop it into your servlet container, then start up the container.

You will also need CURL to run these tests.

Details

Start the REST server

Purpose of test

To ensure the REST server is running.

Commands

http://localhost:8080/simal-rest-0.2

Expected behaviour

A page is displayed telling you that the simal rest is available on this server.

Import RDF Data

To ensure a document can be imported from the local filesystem via the REST interface.

Commands

curl --data "rdf=<RDF/>" http://localhost:8080/simal-rest-0.2/simal-rest/addProject

Expected Behaviour

HTTP response 200.

Get all projects as JSON

To ensure we can retrieve projects in JSON format

Commands

curl -G http://localhost:8080/simal-rest-0.2/simal-rest/allProjects/json

Expected Behaviour

A list of all projects in the repository in JSON format.

Get all people as JSON

To ensure we can retrieve people in JSON format

Commands

curl -G http://localhost:8080/simal-rest-0.2/simal-rest/allPeople/json

Expected Behaviour

A list of all people in the repository in JSON format.