Practical Security Automation and Testing

Step 1 – environment setup and preparation

In this case, we will launch ZAP as proxy mode with the listening port 8090. We will perform ZAP execution by using Robot Framework to send the REST API to ZAP. Refer to the previous section for the installation of Robot Framework.

In addition, we will also need the requests library to enable Robot Framework to send the HTTP requests to ZAP. The requests library can be installed as follows:

$ pip install -U   requests$ pip install -U   robotframework-requests