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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

Data-driven testing allows you to do a lot more with your tests. It allows you to create test cases in external sources and then use those test cases to drive your tests. It also lets you leverage the power of automation much more effectively. With just a few tests, you can try out many different inputs and variations and learn a lot about the system under test. Data-driven testing is one of those testing techniques that you can really only use with automation and it is techniques like this that make automation so useful.

In this chapter, I have given you a good grounding in understanding what data-driven testing is and when it makes sense to use it. I have shown you how to set up data inputs and how to think about and use outputs in data-driven testing. You have also learned how to apply this all in Postman and seen how to create data inputs that Postman can use. In addition, you have seen how to add tests that can get variables that are defined in an external file and...