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API Testing and Development with Postman

By : Dave Westerveld
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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

Sharing what you have done

As we get to the end of this book, I want to make sure that you have the opportunity to showcase what you have learned. You have your own set of reasons for working through this book and trying to understand API testing, but I suspect that you probably want to be able to show others what you have done and learned. Perhaps you want to share your learning with other teammates and colleagues, or perhaps you want to be able to show interviewers that you have been able to acquire skills related to API testing and Postman. Whatever the reason for it, I want you to be able to show others what you have done and learned.

You can use the Share API option on the show more actions menu beside your API to create a shareable API:

Figure 14.21 – Share API

When you do this, you can select a workspace to share this with. If you share your API with a public workspace, you can let others know where that workspace is so that they can see the...