Are there plans to add unit testing / auto tests?

[davehouser1]

Having the ability to perform unit tests / auto testing with a suite of requests is a must have. Would be great if your tool included this feature. I strongly recommend including the following sub features into the testing portion if you decide to include this feature:

• Ability to create "unit tests", which is to say a specific request to run, then assert. I think there are modules you can use to allow users to use JavaScript to confirm a test ran properly. You can use frameworks like Mocha framework, and Chai for assertions.
• Ability to create test suites, which is an aggregation of unit tests.
• Ability to create test suites of suites, combining suites together.
• Support duplicating unit tests in a suite.
• Support duplicating tests suites.
• Support re-arraigning unit tests in a suite.
• Support for async requests in a given unit test. Just because a request returned a 200OK does not mean the work is complete on the backend. There has to be someway to perform more operations to check if async work is complete. There can be a variety of of ways to assert this. In most cases Iv seen there maybe another address/route that one can check job status of a job.
• Support for access to environmental variables in tests. Or create a new environmental variable set for a suite or suite of suites.
• Show how long each unit test took to complete
• Support to show total time all tests in a suite took to run.
• The number of tests can become cumbersome, add a way to search for each unit test in a suite.
• Ability to "play" or run any unit test along without having to run the whole suite.

Hope to see this one day.

[animator]

Hi @davehouser1

We do want to add the ability to perform unit tests and create test suites in API Dash.
This thread will definitely help in building a roadmap for the same.
It will require work on both design and implementation front so we will have to develop the various features you mentioned (along with other useful testing features) into stages & tackle them.
Thank you for starting this discussion thread and providing your feedback.
Will update it as we progress.

[davehouser1]

Adding a couple more features:

• Ability to disable tests in a suite.
• Control if testing should continue or stop immediately if a single test fails.
• Ability to control async timeout (Chai sets this to a max of 60 seconds, needs to be adjustable)
• Create and export a report. Report includes all tests, pass fail status, time it took, output of failure. Format is up to you, csv, json, whatever you like.

[animator]

Thanks for adding more features to the list @davehouser1

[aburiro]

Hi! I'm Azhar (@aburiro), Flutter developer from Pakistan. I have a merged PR in CCExtractor's taskwarrior-flutter. I'm interested in Idea #4 — Agentic API Testing for GSoC 2026. Issue #1158 seems closed — could a mentor point me to the right issue or discussion for this idea? I'd love to start contributing

[animator]

@aburiro #1230