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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

Using API specifications in Postman

You can use API specifications to simplify work in many areas. In this section, I will show you some things that you can do with them. You will learn how to create mocks and tests from a spec with only a few clicks. I will also show you how to use them to do some validation so that everything in your request and elements are consistent.

Since this book is about learning how to use Postman, this section will be devoted to showing you how to use OASes in Postman. However, it is worth noting that you can also use them in other cool and interesting ways as well. For example, in the Swagger Editor, if you go to the Generate Server menu, you can see several different languages , and you can generate the code in the language of your choice. You can also generate client-side code using one of the options from the Generate Client menu.

Another powerful Swagger tool that makes OASes is SwaggerHub (https://swagger.io/tools/swaggerhub/). This is a place...