Chapter 7, Test Automation for APIs

1. The primary focus of API testing is to validate the business logic of APIs, while other types of testing include performance and security. It involves the collection of test data to be sent in as JSON requests to the API and validating the response for accuracy. Some items to look for in the response are status, syntax, schema conformance, and functional correctness.
2. Postman provides a way to group API requests using collections. This helps organize a workspace by breaking it down, and a workspace can also be sorted into multiple collections.
3. Snippets are small code blocks readily available in Postman and can be selected for use in tests. They give an overview of frequently used API validations and save time in writing them.
4. Postman allows the chaining of API requests, which enables the usage of variables from one request to another. In this manner, multiple requests can be tested as a series of calls.
5. Newman is a command-line...