Cotton

Cotton is a markdown-formatted API specification runner. Cotton promotes the readability and understandability of API specification.

Key Features

• Customizable Documentation: Cotton offers intuitive syntax. You can make your API document more readable.
• Setups and Teardowns: Cotton allows you to test setups and teardown with proper variable sharing across contexts.
• Variables: Cotton allows you to define initial variables and use them later, with support for capturing values from responses.
• Captures: Cotton offers value capturing into variables using JSON paths, which help you to perform tests with dynamic data.
• Assertions: Cotton provides multiple assertion operators including equality, comparison, and regular expression matching.
• Debug Logging: Cotton CLI has a -d option to print out detailed information of test operations.
• Report Generation: Cotton can generate JSON reports with test results and timing information.
• CI/CD Ready: Cotton CLI returns appropriate exit codes and supports multiple input formats (file, directory, or glob patterns).