mock-apis.md

title	Testing API Responses with Custom Values
page_title	Sending Custom Variable Values While Creating API Steps
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The goal of sending custom values while creating API steps is to ensure that all input sources are accurately parsed while testing API responses as you send the request. This allows you to experiment with the data and make necessary changes while designing API tests.

With Testsigma, you can choose default and custom values for various variables such as parameters, runtime, environment, random data generators, phone numbers, and mailboxes and verify responses. This article discusses providing custom test data inputs while creating API steps.

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Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure that you have referred to:

1. Documentation on creating test cases.
2. Documentation on adding Rest API to the test steps.

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Steps to Send Custom Variables in API Steps

1. From the left-side navbar, select Create Tests > Test Cases and then click Create Test Case.

2. On the Test Case Details page, click the option next to the test step and select Rest API.

3. Click on the test step to open the Rest API window.

4. Enter the Title, choose the Method, and enter the Endpoint.

5. Select the data you want to parametrize and click Insert Test Data.

6. Choose the test data type you want to add (e.g., @Parameter).

7. Click Add Request Values. The Request values overlay will open.

8. In the Request Values overlay, click URL, add the value to the parameter in the URL, and click Apply.

9. Click Send and verify the response received from the API.

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