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API Testing and Development with Postman
API Testing and Development with Postman

API Testing and Development with Postman: A practical guide to creating, testing, and managing APIs for automated software testing

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Key benefits

  • Learn the tenets of effective API testing and API design
  • Gain an in-depth understanding of the various features Postman has to offer
  • Know when and how to use Postman for creating high-quality APIs for software and web apps

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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.

Who is this book for?

The book is for software testing professionals and software developers looking to improve product and API quality through API test automation. You will find this book useful if understand APIs and want to build your skills for creating, testing, and documenting APIs. The book assumes beginner-level knowledge of JavaScript and API development.

What you will learn

  • Find out what is involved in effective API testing
  • Use data-driven testing in Postman to create scalable API tests
  • Understand what a well-designed API looks like
  • Become well-versed with API terminology, including the different types of APIs
  • Get to grips with performing functional and non-functional testing of an API
  • Discover how to use industry standards such as OpenAPI and mocking in Postman

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SharpRead Jul 21, 2023
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If you wanna get cookin' with Postman, I recommend this book big time. The author does a real good job explainin' things in a nice friendly way. He keeps it practical with lots of examples ya can code along with. I went from zero to API hero following the hands-on projects. It gets ya building real quick so you can start developing and testin' APIs like a pro. It's the bees knees!
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Jesse Liberty Jul 15, 2023
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I have been programming for 30 years, the last six of which were building mobile apps. When I switched to creating APIs, Postman became an essential tool, and this an essential guide to getting the most out of it.The writing is clear, the examples are useful and overall this book is an essential guide to testing and development. Highly recommended.
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Mukta Aug 31, 2021
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API testing with Postman will not only help you in understanding about APIS but also how to use different functionality of Postman. If you are new to Postman or even if you have used it before,this book will help you in learning new techniques about testing APIs using Postman. I am still reading and revising some concepts using the examples given in this book. Thank you!
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Bhavani Jul 02, 2021
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I really enjoyed reading this well-structured book about REST Assured API Testing, A complete road map to REST API automation using Java and TestNG. It's a great toolbox for everyone who wants to start his test automation journey with API. Lots of interesting examples suitable for all readers, they can adapt them to practice easily while reading the book which gives the reader, the feeling of "attending a workshop" rather than just "reading a book"Last but not least, well explained schema and images to explain the code of each concept plus the details in each step in the code "solving the why". It's direct to the point on each step that it is not easy for beginners in API, to understand them alone for the first time. Thanks for such an interesting book!
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nadia henze Jul 02, 2021
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Glad I received this book. So far I can't understand every part of the book since I'm still mastering manual testing but my next school I'm starting we will dive deep into it so I'm very happy I have very detailed book and many great examples, it's life changer. Thank you
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