🛒 Fake Store API QA Project

📌 Project Overview

This project demonstrates manual API testing of the Fake Store API using Postman and Jira. The primary objective was to validate API functionality, verify CRUD operations, perform positive and negative testing, identify defects, and document all testing activities following industry-standard QA practices.

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🎯 Project Objectives

• Verify REST API functionality
• Validate CRUD operations
• Perform Positive Testing
• Perform Negative Testing
• Verify HTTP Status Codes
• Identify API validation issues
• Report defects in Jira
• Document testing artifacts

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🛠️ Tools Used

• Postman
• Jira
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Word
• GitHub

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🌐 API Under Test

Base URL

https://fakestoreapi.com/

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📋 Test Scope

The following API operations were tested:

GET

• Get All Products
• Get Product by ID
• Get Invalid Product ID

POST

• Create Product
• Create Product with Negative Price

PUT

• Update Product
• Update Product with Negative Price
• Update Product with Empty Title

DELETE

• Delete Product
• Delete Non-Existing Product

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✅ Testing Types Performed

• Functional Testing
• API Testing
• Positive Testing
• Negative Testing
• Validation Testing
• CRUD Testing
• Regression Testing (Basic)

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📊 Test Execution Summary

Metric	Result
Total Test Cases	10
Executed	10
Passed	5
Failed	5
Pass Rate	50%
Fail Rate	50%

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🐞 Bugs Identified

Bug ID	Description	Status
BUG-001	GET API returns success for non-existent product ID	Reported
BUG-002	POST API accepts negative price	Reported
BUG-003	PUT API accepts negative price	Reported
BUG-004	PUT API accepts empty product title	Reported
BUG-005	DELETE API returns success for non-existent product ID	Reported

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📂 Repository Structure

FakeStore-API-QA-Project
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├── README.md
├── 1_API_Test_Plan.docx
├── 2_API_Test_Cases.xlsx
├── 3_API_Test_Execution_Report.xlsx
├── Postman_Collection.json
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├── Bug_Screenshots
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└── Jira_Screenshots

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📁 Project Deliverables

• API Test Plan
• API Test Cases
• API Test Execution Report
• Postman Collection
• Jira Bug Reports
• Bug Screenshots
• Jira Screenshots

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▶️ How to Run the Project

1. Download the repository.
2. Open Postman.
3. Import Postman_Collection.json.
4. Execute the requests.
5. Verify the responses.
6. Review the documented Jira bugs.
7. Compare the actual results with the expected results in the test cases.

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📸 Screenshots Included

Jira

• Jira Board
• Bug 001
• Bug 002
• Bug 003
• Bug 004
• Bug 005

Postman

• GET Invalid Product ID
• POST Negative Price
• PUT Negative Price
• PUT Empty Title
• DELETE Invalid Product ID

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📚 Skills Demonstrated

• Manual API Testing
• REST API Testing
• CRUD Operations
• Postman
• Jira
• Bug Reporting
• Test Planning
• Test Case Design
• Test Execution
• Defect Tracking
• GitHub Documentation

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🚀 Future Improvements

• API Automation using Postman Tests
• Newman CLI Integration
• CI/CD Pipeline Integration
• Response Schema Validation
• Performance Testing
• Authentication Testing

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👨‍💻 Author

Muhammad Hassnain Raza

Software Engineering Graduate

Aspiring Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Engineer

GitHub: https://github.com/hassnain11

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