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Welcome

Step CI is an open-source API Quality Assurance framework

• Language-agnostic. Configure easily using YAML, JSON or JavaScript
• REST, GraphQL, gRPC, tRPC, SOAP. Test different API types in one workflow
• Self-hosted. Test services on your network, locally and CI/CD
• Integrated. Play nicely with others

→ Read the Docs

→ Try the Online Playground

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Get started

1. Install the CLI

   Using Node.js

    npm install -g stepci

   Note: Make sure you're using the LTS version of Node.js

   Using Homebrew

    brew install stepci

2. Create example workflow

   workflow.yml

    version: "1.1"
    name: Status Check
    env:
      host: example.com
    tests:
      example:
        steps:
          - name: GET request
            http:
              url: https://${{env.host}}
              method: GET
              check:
                status: /^20/

   Note: You can also also use JSON format to configure your workflow

3. Run the workflow

    stepci run workflow.yml

    PASS  example
   
    Tests: 0 failed, 1 passed, 1 total
    Steps: 0 failed, 1 passed, 1 total
    Time:  0.559s, estimated 1s
   
    Workflow passed after 0.559s

Documentation

Documentation is available on docs.stepci.com

Examples

You can find example workflows under examples/

Community

Join our community on Discord and GitHub

Contributing

As an open-source project, we welcome contributions from the community. If you are experiencing any bugs or want to add some improvements, please feel free to open an issue or pull request

Support Plan

Get Pro-level support with SLA, onboarding, prioritized feature-requests and bugfixes.

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Privacy

By default, the CLI collects anonymous usage data, which includes:

• Unique user ID
• OS Name
• Node Version
• CLI Version
• Command (stepci init, stepci run, stepci generate)
• Environment (Local, Docker, CI/CD)

Note The usage analytics can be disabled by setting STEPCI_DISABLE_ANALYTICS environment variable

License

The source code is distributed under Mozilla Public License terms