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

API Testing and Development with Postman: API creation, testing, debugging, and management made easy , Second Edition

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  • Learn the tenets of effective API testing and design with workflow testing and more
  • Gain an in-depth understanding of Postman’s new and existing features, including Mock Servers
  • Know when and how to use Postman to create high-quality APIs for software and web apps

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Postman is an invaluable tool for exploration and testing of web APIs and helping testers and developers figure out how an API works. With Postman, you can create effective test automation for any APIs, and this guide will help you unleash its full potential. API Testing and Development with Postman is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to create a good quality API, but isn't sure how to go about it. This guide will help you unleash the full potential of Postman’s test automation capabilities. 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. After you’ve familiarized yourself with the theory, you’ll move on to hands-on projects that will teach you how to add test automation to an existing API. You’ll also learn some of the new and powerful features that Postman has that can help you avoid introducing bugs. This second, fully updated edition features new chapters on workflow testing, creating and using mock servers, API security testing, and performance testing. The new and expanded information in this edition will help you future-proof your APIs. 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’ll also find this book useful if you have a basic understanding of APIs and want to build your skills for creating, testing, and documenting them. The book assumes beginner-level knowledge of JavaScript and API development.

What you will learn

  • Find out what is involved in effective API testing
  • Leverage Postman to improve the quality of you API
  • Use data-driven testing in Postman to create scalable API tests
  • How to create and use a Mock Server in Postman
  • Verify and improve the quality of an API using contract testing
  • Understand the basic principles of security testing
  • Get to grips with functional and non-functional testing of an API
  • Discover how to use industry standards such as OpenAPI and mocking

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Allen Wyma Jun 24, 2024
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I've been using Postman for sometime and wanted to learn more about how it works. This book was a fantastic resource and I've since upped my game in using Postman thanks to this book!
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Lyndon Vrooman Jun 24, 2024
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As someone who's been using Postman on and off for more years than I care to remember, I didn't really expect much from this book. I was pleasantly surprised when i realized that it was wrong. It covers all of the basic stuff that you can expect, but, it did manage to teach me about a few of the things in postman that I've often kept at the peripheral such as mocking and performance testing. I definitely feel more comfortble setting up mocks in Postman the next time that I need to.Where I thought that this book really shined was it's theory that goes beyond just Postman. It went into the theory behind development, testing, and documentation while also explaining how to perform these functions with Postman. Even when it came to documentation, although I've been working with API's for decades, my documenting new APIs has already improved so much.If you're on a team that works with API's, even if you don't use Postman regularly, I highly recommend this book.
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Abhishek Kumar Jun 24, 2024
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Read the early release copy of this book. It was a great read and covered all concepts of API dev and testing using postman. Especially the part related to testing was practical and insighful. Highly recommended
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Kevin Gray Jun 25, 2024
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This book provides a great overview of API testing with Postman from starting out to advanced topics. It starts off going into details of APIs before diving into how Postman works. It also shows you various ways to use Postman for some of the more advanced API testing techniques (security, mocking, contract testing) that would often use separate tools. The author does a good job of bringing awareness of these techniques and what Postman can do with examples. I particularly enjoyed the summaries of each new topic at the start of each chapter, giving a good overview of the testing technique that will be covered often with an interesting anecdote to keep engaged. I'd recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn about API testing or someone who is looking to use Postman as a one stop shop for their API testing strategy.
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A. Zubarev Sep 11, 2024
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These days, APIs are ubiquitous, nevertheless, it is still difficult to discover their usage, capabilities and test them without a specialized tool.For many in the IT industry, it is hard to think of a more proliferated tool for the APIs testing and exploration than Postman.So why not to leverage it to its full potential and rip maximum benefits?This book is focused exactly on this.For myself, a daily user of Postman, many areas of remained obscure and hardly visited.This book broke into these areas guiding gently and affirmatively toward various useful goals of an IT practitioner (be it a developer or QA analyst).I liked how the author sets the stage in the book so it becomes easy for even a novice to approach APIs.The most useful parts of this book for me were on creating mocks, test automation and integration with CI.What remained uncovered, but I wished was fleshed out are the paid parts as working in teams (e.g. collaboration), cloud integration, flows, etc.Still a solid five.Fasten your belt and become more efficient and productive testing and developing APIs!
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