Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications

Checking for required fields

In our requirements, we specified that in order to create a user account, the client must provide at least the email and password fields. So, let's write a test for this.

In our spec/cucumber/features/users/create/main.feature file, add the following scenario outline:

Scenario Outline: Bad Request Payload  When the client creates a POST request to /users  And attaches a Create User payload which is missing the <missingFields> field  And sends the request  Then our API should respond with a 400 HTTP status code  And the payload of the response should be a JSON object  And contains a message property which says "Payload must contain at least the email and password fields"  Examples:  | missingFields |  | email         | | password ...