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API Testing and Development with Postman

By : Dave Westerveld
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Book Image

API Testing and Development with Postman

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By: Dave Westerveld

Overview of this book

Postman enables the exploration and testing of web APIs, helping testers and developers figure out how an API works. With Postman, you can create effective test automation for any APIs. If you want to put your knowledge of APIs to work quickly, this practical guide to using Postman will help you get started. The book provides a hands-on approach to learning the implementation and associated methodologies that will have you up and running with Postman in no time. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, this book begins by taking you through the principles of effective API testing. A combination of theory coupled with real-world examples will help you learn how to use Postman to create well-designed, documented, and tested APIs. You'll then be able to try some hands-on projects that will teach you how to add test automation to an already existing API with Postman, and guide you in using Postman to create a well-designed API from scratch. By the end of this book, you'll be able to use Postman to set up and run API tests for any API that you are working with.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Section 1: API Testing Theory and Terminology
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Section 2: Using Postman When Working with an Existing API
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Section 3: Using Postman to Develop an API

Getting Newman set up

Newman is a tool built by the team behind Postman so that you can run Postman collections from the command line. It is also maintained by the Postman team and has feature parity with Postman, which means that you should be able to do anything in Newman that you can in Postman. However, Newman is not installed when you install Postman, so you need to install it separately. In this section, I will show you how to get started with Newman. I will go over how to install Newman, as well as how to use it at the command line. In order to do this, I will also show you how to install the Node.js JavaScript framework and how to use its package manager to install Newman and other helpful libraries.

Installing Newman

Newman is built into Node.js. Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment. JavaScript generally runs in web browsers, but Node.js provides an environment for running JavaScript outside a web browser. With Node.js, you can run JavaScript code on servers...