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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

An example of automated API tests

I've laid out a challenge for you around creating test automation for a simple API. I hope you have worked through that challenge on your own and have a robust suite of tests that you can run against this API. In this section, I will show you one possible way that you could go about doing this. This is by no means the only way to do this and perhaps is not even the best possible way. If what you have looks quite different than this, that is no problem at all. There is a lot of benefit to seeing how other people approach their work, and so take this section as a place where you can see the work of someone else and perhaps even learn something from it.

In this section, I will walk you through the process of designing the collection layout, and then I will show you the various tests that I made and how I set things up to share data between them and make them easy to run and maintain. I will also explain my thought process and why I decided to...