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API Testing and Development with Postman - Second Edition

By : Dave Westerveld
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API Testing and Development with Postman - Second Edition

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By: Dave Westerveld

Overview of this book

Postman is an invaluable tool for exploration and testing of web APIs and helping testers and developers figure out how an API works. With Postman, you can create effective test automation for any APIs, and this guide will help you unleash its full potential. API Testing and Development with Postman is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to create a good quality API, but isn't sure how to go about it. This guide will help you unleash the full potential of Postman’s test automation capabilities. 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. After you’ve familiarized yourself with the theory, you’ll move on to hands-on projects that will teach you how to add test automation to an existing API. You’ll also learn some of the new and powerful features that Postman has that can help you avoid introducing bugs. This second, fully updated edition features new chapters on workflow testing, creating and using mock servers, API security testing, and performance testing. The new and expanded information in this edition will help you future-proof your APIs. 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 (12 chapters)
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API Testing and Development with Postman, Second Edition: API creation, testing, debugging, and management made easy

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The year was 2007, and I was hanging out with some friends who were techies. They always had the latest tech gear and in 2007, the latest tech gear was a new phone that Apple had put out. A phone that didn't have a physical keypad. A touch screen phone! Can you imagine that? They were showing off their new iPhones and the rest of us were gathered around to check out this crazy new phone. I remember trying it out and accidently clicking on something and struggling to figure out how to navigate on it. I thought it was all going to be a fad and we'd be back to using our Blackberries, with their physical keyboards, soon.Fast forward a few years and along with almost everyone else in the world, I had my own smart phone. The meteoric rise of handheld computing devices has changed a lot of things in our culture. For many of us, these devices are the primary way in which we use the internet and interact with computers. These...