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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

Chapter 8: Running API Tests in CI with Newman

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 touch...