freeCodeCamp API Test Automation for Beginners. Issue with assignment #1

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I tried searching if someone else had this issue but no luck. Iā€™m having an issue with completing an assignment as shown in this workspace. The tests I wrote definitely worked but when I check my solution I get this error in the test suite.

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The assignment is to write a test that checks if the API returned status code 200. Hereā€™s what it looks like.

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Anyone have an idea of whatā€™s going on?

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I love the way that course is basically cribbed from the Postman Learning Centre courses, including the ā€œIf you have any failures, review the failed test results or ask for support in the community forumā€.

Anyways, if you look at the failing test. It does a few things.

pm.test("Get API status contains status 200 test", () => {
    let request = folder.item.find(req => {return req.name === "Get API status"})
    pm.expect(request.event[0].script.exec.toString(), 'check script').includes("pm.test");
    pm.expect(request.event[0].script.exec.toString(), 'check script').includes("pm.response.to.have.status");
});

The error is showing 'expected " to include ā€˜pm.testā€™".

This part is basically the tests tab for the request.

request.event[0].script.exec.toString()

I suspect the issue is that its canā€™t find the request name.

Do you have a request called ā€œGet API statusā€. (Which will be case sensitive).

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Thank you for your response. I appreciate how straightforward you were with me.

The file was named correctly and after reading through the tests I realised one of them was to make sure thatā€™s the case anyway.

That put me on the right track though, and I was able to get the test to pass after adding the test function to the pre-request script as well.

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Thanks for reaching out for help @security-observer-72 - you did nothing wrong!

Iā€™ve improved the tests so that this issue no longer occurs.