stepci/stepci

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1868 stars · 97 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Step CI is an open-source, language-agnostic API quality assurance framework configured via YAML, JSON, or JavaScript. It tests REST, GraphQL, gRPC, tRPC, and SOAP APIs through a CLI, Node.js library, Docker image, and CI/CD integrations, including load and performance testing.

Use cases

• test REST APIs from YAML workflows in CI
• run automated API regression tests on every push
• load test and benchmark API endpoints
• validate GraphQL and gRPC services
• migrate API tests from Postman or Insomnia
• generate API tests from OpenAPI specs
• chain HTTP requests with captures and variables in integration tests

When to choose

• you need declarative, language-agnostic API tests that run in CI/CD
• you want one tool covering REST, GraphQL, gRPC, tRPC, and SOAP
• you need lightweight load/performance testing alongside functional API tests
• you want to run tests locally, in Docker, or via GitHub Actions/GitLab

When to avoid

• you need browser or UI end-to-end testing
• you require deeply programmatic test logic beyond what YAML/JS workflows express
• you need a managed cloud test platform rather than a self-hosted runner
• your team is already standardized on Postman/Newman and happy with it

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

testing e2e-testing http-client benchmarking api-framework cli testing apis developer-tools cli cross-platform api-testing rest graphql grpc soap trpc load-testing ci-cd yaml-workflows openapi devops automation nodejs docker

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