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API Testing and Development with Postman

You're reading from   API Testing and Development with Postman A practical guide to creating, testing, and managing APIs for automated software testing

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800569201
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dave Westerveld Dave Westerveld
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: API Testing Theory and Terminology
2. Chapter 1: API Terminology and Types FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Principles of API Design 4. Chapter 3: OpenAPI and API Specifications 5. Chapter 4: Considerations for Good API Test Automation 6. Section 2: Using Postman When Working with an Existing API
7. Chapter 5: Understanding Authorization Options 8. Chapter 6: Creating Test Validation Scripts 9. Chapter 7: Data-Driven Testing 10. Chapter 8: Running API Tests in CI with Newman 11. Chapter 9: Monitoring APIs with Postman 12. Chapter 10: Testing an Existing API 13. Section 3: Using Postman to Develop an API
14. Chapter 11: Designing an API Specification 15. Chapter 12: Creating and Using a Mock Server in Postman 16. Chapter 13: Using Contract Testing to Verify an API 17. Chapter 14: Design and Create an API 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Automating API tests

API test automation is often valuable, and in this section, I want to help you to think about how to get started with creating it for an existing API. However, I'm not going to walk you through a step-by-step process of doing this since I want you to practice doing this on your own. You will learn more if you try some things out on your own. I won't just throw you in the deep end though. In this section, I will give you a quick review of some concepts that will help you with creating API test automation. I will then give you a challenge that I want you to try, and I'll also give you some guidance on how you might break down your approach to solving this challenge. If you work through this challenge, you will find that you have learned a lot about how to create good API test automation. So, let's start with a review of some important concepts for API test automation and think about how they could play out in creating tests for this API.

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