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API Testing and Development with Postman

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804617908
Length 358 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Dave Westerveld Dave Westerveld
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

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

Getting Newman set up

Newman is a tool built by the team behind Postman so that you can run Postman collections from the command line. It is also maintained by the Postman team and has feature parity with Postman, which means that you should be able to do anything in Newman that you can in Postman. However, Newman is not installed when you install Postman, so you need to install it separately. In this section, I will show you how to get started with Newman. I will go over how to install Newman, as well as how to use it at the command line. In order to do this, I will also show you how to install the Node.js JavaScript framework and how to use its package manager to install Newman and other helpful libraries.

Installing Newman

Newman is built on Node.js. Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment. JavaScript generally runs in web browsers, but Node.js provides an environment for running JavaScript outside a web browser. With Node.js, you can run JavaScript code on servers...

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