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API Testing and Development with Postman

By : Dave Westerveld
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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

Creating OASes

I won't spend a lot of time on the Swagger tools that are used for OASes, but I do want to give you at least an introduction to the subject so that you can use these tools in your API testing if you want. In this section, you will learn how to create and edit OASes in the Swagger Editor. You will also learn what an API schema is and how to codify one in an API specification. In order to demonstrate these things, I will use the Swagger Petstore API. This is an example API that already has the OAS built for it. It is a good way to get started with using OpenAPI and is used in their documentation a lot as well.

The OAS enables a lot of value, but there is quite a bit to it as well. In this section, I will quickly skim through using it. I will also develop these themes more deeply by working through some more examples in Chapter 11, Designing an API Specification.

The Swagger Editor is an online tool for editing the OAS. You can access it at https://editor.swagger...