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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

Viewing monitor results

Once you have created your monitors, they will run on the schedule you specified. In this section, I will show you how to view and understand the results of these runs. I'll also show you how to delete a monitor that you no longer need.

If a monitor fails, Postman will send you an email letting you know that there is a problem. This email will let you know about the failure and give you a link that will take you to the monitor. Postman will also send you a weekly summary of your monitors so that you can see how they are doing overall.

Although monitors usually run on the specified schedule, you don't have to wait for the scheduled run time. If you suspect there might be an issue, or you just want to check something out, you can manually run your monitor outside the specified schedule.

To see the monitor results, you will need to go to the Monitors tab and select you monitor from the list.

If your monitor has not yet run, you will see a...