There are a great many tools available for testing REST Api's by various vendors, open source plugins, browser plugins, and the old classic curl
. If you're looking for a really simple way to test REST Api's that is easy to maintain and entirely automated then you should consider using Cucumber with Javascript.
A unique way of working with ranges in a more fluent way in a REST API. What is nice about this approach is its easy to hook up to javascript and is still a valid url scheme.