Gabbi 1.13.0 has been released with additional JSONPath features.

Gabbi is a tool for writing tests of HTTP APIs in a declarative style using a YAML-based format. It is primarily oriented towards JSON-based APIs, using JSONPath to validate and inspect responses.

If we have an API that returns …

There has been a lot of thinking recently about the next steps for gabbi. The ideas being considered are mostly associated with making gabbi more flexible and more extensible and will introduce some backwards incompatible features. Thus there will need to be a version 2.0.

When gabbi was born …

Gabbi 1.7.0 has been released with a new feature for handling URLs and request methods. Based on feedback during a sneak preview at PyconUK 2015, people are going to like it.

The original way to express a request in a gabbi test looked like this:

tests:
    - name: get …

I'm at PyconUK 2015 and took a few notes from the first day. Here they are.

PyconUK lives up to its reputation for being very friendly and very inclusive. There's a great diversity of people and topics present.

The most informative talk was Larry Hastings giving a very cogent explanation …