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API Testing with Postman [Video]

By : Dave Westerveld
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Book Image

API Testing with Postman [Video]

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By: Dave Westerveld

Overview of this book

Postman is a powerful tool used to test web services and APIs. It allows you to create a request with the required HTTP method and parameters, submit the request, and inspect the results. This course will use the Postman testing tool to teach you API testing. You will use Postman to find bugs and aid in efficient API development. Create requests and building simple workflows with Postman. Additionally, it will show you how to set up test suites in Postman that can be re-used for regression testing as a project grows. By the end of this course, you will be able to write automated API tests and have a good grasp of how to test an API. You will know how to use Postman as you work with APIs in various capacities and you will have confidence in your ability to take part in creating high-quality APIs.
Table of Contents (6 chapters)
Chapter 1
Getting Started with API Testing
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Section 2
Understanding Web Services and APIs
Gain a conceptual understanding of what web service is and how you can interact with them via APIs. - Explain how to think of web services as a black box function - Explain how an API can be thought of as inputs and outputs to the function - Show how it works in postman and explain JSON data