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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

Summary

This chapter has been filled with ideas on how to create long-lasting and valuable test automation. Over the next few chapters, I will take a lot of the foundations we've laid here and show you how to use various features in Postman. This will help you put the topics from this chapter into practice in your testing.

You have learned the strengths that test automation brings to the table and how to use those strengths to your advantage when creating a test strategy. You have also learned about different types of API tests that you can create, including contract tests, integration tests, endpoint tests, and performance and security tests.

I also showed you how to use Postman to organize and structure variables in ways that will help you understand what an API is doing and what you might need to do if tests fail. I also showed you how to use variables in Postman and where to store them. You now know which scope to use for different kinds of variables and understand...