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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

API security in Postman

Postman has a lot of built-in options for dealing with API security, and in this section, I will show you how to use each of them. When I was getting started with API testing, I found that figuring out how to authorize and authenticate myself was one of the hardest parts of using an API. I hope that this section will help you figure out how to handle API security on any APIs you are testing. In the previous section, I talked about the distinction between authorization and authentication. However, as I mentioned, sometimes those two terms are conflated. Postman uses the terminology of "authorization" to combine both concepts, so as I show you how to do this, I will generally stick to using that term as an umbrella term for both authentication and authorization.In this section, you will learn how to use the various authorization options in Postman. I will go over some common ones such as bearer tokens, and also walk you through the details of how to use...

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