Merge pull request #14 from sspeiche/master

Issue #13 proposed set of approved tests and reporter update
ignore generated EARL and HTML test result reports
Merge pull request #15 from spadgett/master

ignore generated EARL and HTML test result reports
remove unnecessary calls to new URI()

RestAssured.get(), put(), post(), delete() all can take in a String.
Remove unnecessary calls to new URI() to simplify the code and avoid
URISyntaxException in test method signatures.
Merge pull request #19 from spadgett/master

remove unnecessary calls to new URI()