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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 10: Testing an Existing API

APIs come in all shapes and sizes. I have tried to give you a few different APIs to practice on as you've worked your way through this book. If you have worked through the various examples and challenges in this book, you should have a pretty good idea of how to use Postman with various types of APIs. In this chapter, though, I want to get you thinking about how you can use Postman to test an existing API.

Although new APIs are being created every day, the reality is that there are a lot of APIs out there that do not have adequate tests. You might be working on one of those APIs. Perhaps you are even working on an API that has been around for some time. I was recently working on a project that was under a tight deadline and, to meet this deadline, we had to leave some of the API tests until later. It can be a bit overwhelming to have to go back and add tests to an API that already exists and so, in this chapter, I want to walk you through...