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API Testing and Development with Postman

API Testing and Development with Postman - Second Edition

By : Dave Westerveld
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API Testing and Development with Postman

API Testing and Development with Postman

4.9 (10)
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 (18 chapters)
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Performance Testing an API

APIs are meant to be interacted with programmatically. This means that access to them can be automated. This ability to automate is great and is one of the reasons that APIs have taken off the way they have. However, the ability to automate them means that they can be, deliberately or inadvertently, interacted with in ways that can cause performance issues.

Performance testing is an area of testing that has its own specialists. There are a huge number of considerations and a lot of complexity that go into performance testing. I have done some performance testing in my career and worked with performance testing teams, but I am not an expert on this topic. However, as with security testing, I believe that this topic is too important to API testing for us to ignore. We might not be able to deeply test for performance, but as well-rounded testers, we want to be able to check for some of the more obvious things.

In this chapter, we will learn about some...

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