API Testing Without the Hassle – My Experience Using Keploy for CI Integration
As someone who’s been actively building APIs, I’ve always valued testing—but honestly, I’ve struggled to keep it consistent in fast-paced projects.
Recently, while working on my personal-notes-api project, I explored Keploy, a tool that promised automated API test generation and CI/CD integration. I wasn’t sure what to expect—but it turned out to be the cleanest integration I’ve ever done.
🧑💻 What I Tested
I integrated Keploy directly into my GitHub Actions workflow for this public repo:
🔗 AniTheWizNo1/personal-notes-api
This Node.js project exposes a simple Notes API, and I had already written an OpenAPI spec and a few cURL commands. Using Keploy’s dashboard, I uploaded the schema, pasted my cURL snippets, and let it generate the tests.
Within seconds, I had a structured test suite and a CLI command to plug into my CI pipeline.
⚙️ GitHub Actions Setup
Keploy made it super simple to hook into my existing workflow. After saving the test command and API key as a GitHub Secret, I added a few lines to my .github/workflows/ci.yml file—and that was it.
The pipeline now runs my API tests automatically on every push.
🧪 Real Test Output
✅ Why This Worked for Me
- No complex CLI setup
- No need to mock or manually write boilerplate test cases
- Keploy used my real API usage and schema to build smart, relevant test cases
- Dashboard showed the results in a clean, visual way
💬 Final Thoughts
I didn’t go through the Chrome Extension route (it wasn’t explicitly required), but I can see how that would be useful for more frontend-heavy apps. For me, using the dashboard and plugging it into CI was more than enough to get full test coverage quickly.
If you're working on backend APIs and want to automate testing without slowing down development, give Keploy a shot.
🔗 My project repo: github.com/AniTheWizNo1/personal-notes-api
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