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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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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

Creating your own Specification File

Now that you have seen what an OpenAPI specification file is like, let’s look at what it takes to create your own. Creating your own file from scratch will give you a better idea of how the specification works. The example below will just skim over what it takes to create an OpenAPI specification. If you want more details on this, you can check out the documentation here: https://swagger.io/docs/specification/about/. OpenAPI specifications can be written down with either json or yaml formats. It is common to use yaml and do that is what I will use in the coming example.In this section I will walk you through creating an API specification for an imaginary to-do list application. This application will allow users to create new to-do items. It will also allow users to mark those items as complete and to make changes to the item after they have created it. They can also delete an item that they no longer want to track. Our job in this section will...

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