2. Explore Test Project

View the project in the Navigator

You can see the created test project in the Navigator panel on the left:

The project contains multiple test cases (one per operation), grouped into a test suite.

In this tutorial, each test case contains a single request test step. In real scenarios, test cases typically include multiple steps.

To explore the service, expand the APIs node in the Navigator. The API is displayed as a tree structure of resources, operations, and requests:

The Navigator displays your API as a hierarchy:

Table 52. API hierarchy in the Navigator

Level	Description	Example
API	The imported service	Swagger Petstore
Resource	An endpoint path in the API	`/pet`
Operation	An HTTP method available on the resource	`POST addPet`
Request	A request you can run and edit in ReadyAPI	`Request 1`

In this hierarchy, the top-level node represents the API. Its child nodes represent resources (endpoints), which contain operations and requests.

Select a request in the Navigator to open it in the request editor, where you can configure and run the request.

In the request editor, you can:

Some resources contain multiple operations with different HTTP methods. Each operation can include one or more requests.

The requests in the APIs node act as templates that you can reuse when building test cases in the Functional Tests node.

In your project, you can create multiple request templates for a single resource as needed.

You can send a request directly from the request editor to verify its behavior. This runs the request independently.

In the next step of this tutorial, you will add a request to a test case and modify request parameters.