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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
13
Section 3: Using Postman to Develop an API

Chapter 9: Monitoring APIs with Postman

I remember taking a class on time management. One of the topics we discussed in that course was how to manage your email. As students, we shared how we each approached our email. I can still distinctly remember one of my fellow students being completely shocked and almost bewildered that I didn't empty my email inbox every day. For me, all email stays in my inbox. If it is unread, I still need to deal with it, and if it is marked as read, I don't need to look at it again, but I don't bother to archive it or put it into another folder. This student thought it was totally bonkers that I wouldn't archive and label everything. And then there is the other side of the spectrum. I know people who have literally thousands of unread emails in their inbox. If they get an email that they don't want to read, they just leave it.

When I see an inbox like that, I become kind of like the student in the time management class. I can...