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.
- Variables: Cotton allows you to define initial variables and use them later.
- Captures: Cotton offers value capturing into variable, which help you to perform tests with dynamic data.
- Regular Expression Assertions: Not only simple assertions, but Cotton also provides built-in regular expression assertions.
- Debug Logging: Cotton CLI has a
-doption to print out detailed information of test operations. - CI/CD Ready: Cotton CLI returns error if any test fails.
About Cotton
Cotton 0 was originally inspired by silk test which is no longer maintained.
Testcase syntax in Cotton 0 is close to silk test, but in version 1, the syntax is completely redesigned to promote more readability.