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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

Summary

Performance testing is a complicated sub-specialty in testing. When you have access to performance testing experts, engaging them to help you with your testing is a great idea. However, the reality is many companies do not have the resources to keep performance testing experts on staff. That is where you can step in and use some of the things you’ve learned in the chapter.

You’ve learned about some of the different kinds of performance testing. You learned how to think about processing, memory, and connection loads. You have learned about how to generate different kinds of loads and about the different load profiles that you can use. We covered spike, ramp, and endurance load profiles. We looked at what each of those loads are and how to generate them in Postman.

We then dug into performance testing loads in more detail as we covered how to run some simple performance tests in Postman. You learned how to create and use a load profile for a single request...

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