Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7

API tests for post resource

We can either write test cases in a structural approach or we can write it in class. Both ways are fine, I recommend class, so you can take advantage of your OOP concepts, if you want at some point. So let's create a file for that:

composer exec codecept generate:cest api CreatePost

This will create a class in tests/api/CreatePostCest.php with content similar to:

<?phpclass CreatePostCest{    public function _before(ApiTester $I)    {    }    public function _after(ApiTester $I)    {    }    // tests    public function tryToTest(ApiTester $I)    {    }}

The _before() method is here so that you can write any code, which you want to execute before your test cases and the _after() method is there to execute after your test cases. The next method ...