You're reading from API Testing and Development with Postman API creation, testing, debugging, and management made easy

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804617908

Length 358 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Postman

Concepts

Test Driven Development

Author (1):

Dave Westerveld

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. API Terminology and Types

2. API Documentation and Design FREE CHAPTER

3. OpenAPI and API Specifications

4. Considerations for Good API Test Automation

5. Understanding Authorization Options

6. Creating Test Validation Scripts

7. Data-Driven Testing

8. Workflow Testing

9. Running API Tests in CI with Newman

10. Monitoring APIs with Postman

11. Testing an Existing API

12. Creating and Using Mock Servers in Postman

13. Using Contract Testing to Verify an API

14. API Security Testing

15. Performance Testing an API

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

17. Index

Checking API responses

Since Postman uses JavaScript for the checks in a test, it has a lot of power and flexibility built into it. I'm going to walk you through various things that you can do with this. In order to do that, it will be easiest to work with actual API calls. For that purpose, I will once again use the Star Wars API (https://github.com/PacktPublishing/API-Testing-and-Development-with-Postman/tree/master/Chapter06) and then import that package, if you would prefer.When I made this collection, I also created a variable called base_url that specifies the base URL for this. I will be creating a few different requests as...

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Authors (1)

Dave Westerveld

Dave Westerveld is a developer with many years of testing experience. He has been involved in the testing of numerous projects and he excels at solving automation problems in team environments. He has worked with well-established products and early-stage initiatives, and he is passionate about using automation to improve product quality and to help teams work more efficiently in developing high-value software. Dave has also worked as a developer integrating third-party APIs into applications. Having worked on both the testing and development sides of the SDLC, he has an intimate knowledge of what it takes to create quality code.

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