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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

Using mock servers

You've now created a mock server that gives back different responses for various situations. The whole point of having a mock server, though, is so that you can use it for testing and development purposes. In this section, I want to show you how you can use a mock server to help out with those things. I will show you how to use mock servers in both frontend and backend development. I will also show you how to use them to help you with continuous planning and give a brief introduction on how to use them for testing purposes.

Let's dive right in by looking at how to develop code against a mock server.

Developing against a mock server

One of the reasons you would create a mock server is so that you can use it to provide data for you while you are creating a UI. This book isn't about UI development, so I won't spend too much time talking about how to develop UIs. However, there are a few things to keep in mind when developing against a...