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API Testing and Development with Postman - Second Edition
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We have started with the mechanics of how to make API requests, but this book is about API testing, so now that you know some of the basics of how an API request works, let’s look at some of the things to consider when you test an API. One important aspect of testing is exploratory testing.
I can still clearly remember the first time I saw a modern web API in action. The company I was working at was building a centralized reporting platform for all the automated tests, and I was assigned to help test the reporting platform. One of the key aspects of this platform was the ability to read and manipulate data through a web API. As I started testing this system, I quickly realized how powerful this paradigm was.
Another part of my job at that time was to work with a custom-built test automation system. This system was quite different from the more standard test automation framework that many others in the company...