httprunner/docs/Introduction.md

Introduction

Design Philosophy

Take full reuse of Python's existing powerful libraries: Requests, unittest and Locust. And achieve the goal of API automation test, production environment monitoring, and API performance test, with a concise and elegant manner.

Key Features

• Inherit all powerful features of Requests, just have fun to handle HTTP in human way.
• Define testcases in YAML or JSON format in concise and elegant manner.
• Supports function/variable/extract/validate mechanisms to create full test scenarios.
• With debugtalk.py plugin, module functions can be auto-discovered in recursive upward directories.
• Testcases can be run in diverse ways, with single testset, multiple testsets, or entire project folder.
• Test report is concise and clear, with detailed log records. See PyUnitReport.
• With reuse of Locust, you can run performance test without extra work.
• CLI command supported, perfect combination with Jenkins.

Learn more

You can read this blog to learn more about the background and initial thoughts of HttpRunner.