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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

Reporting on tests in Newman

Newman is a powerful tool for running tests, but the point of having test automation isn't just so that you can run tests. The point of test automation is to be able to improve a product's quality based on the results you get. You need to know when tests fail so that you can follow up on those failures and see if they represent issues in the product. Effective test automation also requires paying attention to the tests themselves. You want to run tests that are effective and useful, and not just keep running a test that isn't telling you anything. In order to do all of this, you need test reporting. This section will help you understand how reporting works in Newman. You will learn how to use the built-in reporters that Newman has. You will also learn how to install and use community build reporters, and I will even walk you through an example that shows you how you can build your own Newman test reporter.

Using Newman's built-in...