Summary

This chapter has covered a lot of territory. Security is a complex and important topic and understanding how to work with it is an important part of API testing. In this chapter, I have shown you how to think about API security and what the distinction is between authorization and authentication in security. I also showed you how to use the various Postman authorization types to give you access to secured APIs. You learned how to log in with many different authorization types ranging from Basic Auth to API keys and tokens to OAuth 2.0. I also showed you some of the other authorization options in Postman and showed you how to get started with them.I hope you are excited to continue learning about Postman in the next chapter, where I will show you how to create test validation scripts. This will involve using JavaScript in Postman and will be a lot of fun as you learn how to check that requests are doing what they should be and a lot of other powerful things that Postman can help...